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Thread #86416   Message #1646350
Posted By: GUEST,Geoduck
11-Jan-06 - 02:18 PM
Thread Name: BS: KatrinaGate
Subject: RE: BS: KatrinaGate...
Perfesser Pink Pants. Here is all the information you need for this class and from your favorite left wing rag to boot:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/10/AR2005091001529.html

"...In fact, while the last regularly scheduled train out of town had left a few hours earlier, Amtrak had decided to run a "dead-head" train that evening (Sep 27th)to move equipment out of the city. It was headed for high ground in Macomb, Miss., and it had room for several hundred passengers. "We offered the city the opportunity to take evacuees out of harm's way," said Amtrak spokesman Cliff Black. "The city declined."

So the ghost train left New Orleans at 8:30 p.m., with no passengers on board..."