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The coast-to-coast show has the deer on:
http://www.coasttocoastam.com/gen/page25.html

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[This message has been edited by C-H (edited 02-27-2003).]

It's interesting how the story and pictures of this deer gets around in the internet.

The very same deer made the local (Winnipeg MB Canada) 6pm news with the reporter on the scene just before the Railway took it off.

It was hit on the CN mainline just west of Winnipeg.

First call came into Manitoba Hydro of a deer on the lines just west of the Headingly Station.

A hydro trouble crew attended and found it was on the railway signal line and notified the Railway police to have them get a railway workcrew out to take it down.

The CBC reporter said the railway figured the deer may have been hit thinking that the line was clear to cross but instead there were some empty flatcars on the line followed by loaded ones with containers. The train crews that night did not report hitting anything with the lead engine.

I heard that Santa's test this year to renew his pilot's license involved an "engine out"

TW

First-off a big welcome to the new members above.

Now, not to start an argument but, Winnipeg Canada isn't to Close to Baltimore, Maryland the last time I looked at a North America map! OK, Looking close, you can see the primaries, and the transformer, and the missing hoofs.

I still find it hard to swallow, but I am not inferring that anyone is making this up.

John

It could happen....Remember the picture of the kid that wrecked his jeep,hanging from the power lines.
I went to the old post to try to find a pic of this but they are no longer there.

What does our resident train experts think. Trainwire and Scott35 speak up. What do you think, train or booze?

Scott

I apologize if I left off any other train experts, they are the only two that I know.

Some good work with adobe photoshop! No way is this for real. No friggin way.

There is a closer picture:

Hotline1 Thanks for the welcome.

I think that somebody got this from Manitoba and changed it to Balitimore to make it sound local.

If you look at Mapquest or Mapblast for Winnipeg using the intersection given in the first posting (Wilkes at the perimiter), it is where the CN mainline runs west out of Winnipeg.

I too thought that somebody had too much time on their hands and made up the picture, until I saw it on the local news at dinner time. I can't share it with you as the link to that clip has expired off the stations web page.

Everybody in the local media including the railway spokesperson assumed it was hit up there.

Hotline1 could be right in saying that the deer came from some place else and somebody decided to throw it up in the railway signal lines to cause some excitement. I don't know how much time the railway police or RCMP would spend checking to see where it came from.

No news of where the deer ended up, I wonder if somebody has a freezer full of deer roasts?

i wonder if they're rare or well done?