Spike in Metal Theft Imperils German Railways

[gremlin]

you can get the full story at the link. as the country's go tango uniform were going to see more of this.

As metal prices continue to climb, theft along Germany's railways has reached record levels. The missing parts are not only dangerous, the delays and cancellations they cause are damaging Deutsche Bahn's reputation.

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Travelers and businesspeople pushing their way through the underground train station at Cologne Bonn Airport are intercepted at the escalators down to the tracks by security personnel from Deutsche Bahn, Germany's national rail provider. No, these officers inform the passengers, no trains are running at the moment. And no, they don't know when operations will start again. Frustration and annoyance spread palpably through the crowd.


This was Tuesday morning of last week and, in this case, the delay wasn't caused by a broken-down high-speed ICE train. It wasn't a faulty railroad switch, the private drama of a suicide on the tracks or a bomb threat. And yet, it was an attack of sorts.

During the night, unknown individuals tampered with a cable shaft between the Cologne districts of Kalk and Vingst, near a city forest called the Gremberger Wäldchen, destroying three signaling cables and a communications cable with an axe. Federal police, in their subsequent report, put the time of the attack at 1:25 a.m.

Investigators concluded that these were not vandals, but cable thieves. Perhaps they were interrupted, because they never finished their work, but the damage they caused was still enough to bring rail traffic around Cologne to a standstill for 11 hours, cancelling 42 trains and rerouting 56.

Rising Metal Prices Drive Scrap Market
http://www.spiegel.de/international/ger ... 70,00.html

[russau]

and the beat goes on!

[gremlin]

and the beat goes on!

the beat cant go on. there drums were sold for the metal scrap.