Going Off The Rails On A Crazy Train
August 26, 2008 at 9:02 am
The painfully obvious about Joe Biden is confirmed:
Before flying to Denver, he made an appearance at the Wilmington, Del., Amtrak station that the Obama campaign has worked hard to make part of the narrative surrounding Biden in recent days.
Worked hard? Never realized how tough it is to power a narrative around one of the most significant taxpayer-subsidized government programs around.
Unless, of course, you consider past dramatic experiences with trains.
Like this …
Or this …
Or even this …
All leading to AMTRAK’s day of wreck-oning.
David said,
August 26, 2008 @ 1:42 pm
Don’t forget one of the first train wrecks filmed: Buster Keaton’s ‘The General’
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nG4uswUH5hM
Paul A'Barge said,
August 26, 2008 @ 1:42 pm
The first video is of a freight train, not Amtrak. Not fair. Great footage though and a great movie (Fugitive with Harrison Ford).
LOL
Paul A'Barge said,
August 26, 2008 @ 1:48 pm
You like train wrecks? Well then …
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSsJ19sy3JI
Enjoy!
Kevin said,
August 26, 2008 @ 3:08 pm
Tom Cruise’s character “Vincent” in Collateral wasn’t crazy about trains…
Max: First time in L.A.?
Vincent: No. Tell you the truth, whenever I’m here I can’t wait to leave. It’s too sprawled out, disconnected. You know? That’s me. You like it?
Max: It’s my home.
Vincent: 17 million people. This is got to be the fifth biggest economy in the world and nobody knows each other. I read about this guy who gets on the MTA here, dies.
Max: Oh.
Vincent: Six hours he’s riding the subway before anybody notices his corpse doing laps around L.A., people on and off sitting next to him. Nobody notices.
And for good reason…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6UluJIqNM4&feature=related
ZZMike said,
August 26, 2008 @ 8:58 pm
Amtrak is still that railroad where they’ll stop dead in the middle of the desert because an engineer’s 8 hour shift has run out, then send a helicopter out to replace him.
But maybe Biden wasn’t praising Amtrak, just the station.