For life...take three...... NEW THREAD ALERT. PG 243

[cherbear]

Been trying to be better with sunshine this month.

After today, I have done 5 dailies..so only missed two

Having worst luck with Two Cents lately.. Only got two so far....choices have been so limited..

Anyone else back to sunshine?

not really. I got 3 cents on the scratchoff today

 

[cherbear]

I was reading some other monorail threads, as I am sure there had to be CMs posting with more details.

I copied this from another thread about possibly what happened.


This from micechat.com from a poster. It does make sense.

Hi guys,

I'm a former Mark VI railie, and I stay in touch with a fair number of folks in the department. Here's what I've heard. I'm going to stress that it's what I've heard, and I can't represent this as absolute fact. Take that for what it's worth.

The short, short version is that Monorail Central cleared Monorail Pink in reverse into the Concourse (the Epcot side of the TTC) station without being aware that Monorail Purple was still in the station. Pink was cleared with MAPO override, meaning that the driver would have disabled the anti-collision system (there are a variety of legitimate reasons for doing this), and would have been acting on faith that Central wouldn't have cleared him into a dangerous situation because it sometimes is difficult to see everything you'd want to in the cab mirrors, particularly at night on a curve such as the one he was backing along. For whatever reason, Purple just sat in the station without attempting to avoid the accident, and was struck by Pink moving at the full 15 mph allowed during MAPO override. From what I understand, the driver of Purple was a new transfer from another department. Why Central would not have made sure the station was clear before moving any trains is a bit of a mystery, but I've heard that no one was actually in the control console (the control tower-looking place at Concourse) at the time. To my knowledge, there were no electrical or mechanical problems in play here. Again, I have to stress that I'm relating what I've heard, and I was not there. This is a second-hand account from others more familiar with the situation.

thanks for the info. That certainly sheds some light on the situation!

 

[Trentmom]

not really. I got 3 cents on the scratchoff today

Baby steps

thanks for the info. That certainly sheds some light on the situation!

No problem

Sounds like main control dropped the ball, and a bit of driver error, too


such a sad situation all around

 

[cherbear]

Well it's almost that time. Thank God Monday is almost over!!

 

[cherbear]

buhbye folks! See ya later!!

 

[Trentmom]

buhbye folks! See ya later!!

Later gator

 

[Tat2ddisneymom]

Yes I really did I really didn't expect you to know that, I was just being silly.



oh man, I missed Nikki??!



ttyl!!

Sorry. If I do manage to get online during the day, it is usually really quickly.

I vote for UJ

BTW...did you see the pics I posted of our meet a couple pages back ?



Have a good rest of day

Chat with ya later

Been trying to be better with sunshine this month.

After today, I have done 5 dailies..so only missed two

Having worst luck with Two Cents lately.. Only got two so far....choices have been so limited..

Anyone else back to sunshine?

I'm gonna need more than eight years.

 

[Trentmom]

Sorry. If I do manage to get online during the day, it is usually really quickly.




I'm gonna need more than eight years.

Cool..glad u saw them


U need to get on it them girl

Kids need some disney now

 

[Disneymommom]

I think it would be a very good idea if you all took some time to visit this thread today!!

http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?p=32581205#post32581205

Thanks for starting that thread Carla, you're awesome!

 

[Leger13]

Yes I really did I really didn't expect you to know that, I was just being silly.



oh man, I missed Nikki??!



ttyl!!

ok

Been trying to be better with sunshine this month.

After today, I have done 5 dailies..so only missed two

Having worst luck with Two Cents lately.. Only got two so far....choices have been so limited..

Anyone else back to sunshine?

no. but good for you

I was reading some other monorail threads, as I am sure there had to be CMs posting with more details.

I copied this from another thread about possibly what happened.


This from micechat.com from a poster. It does make sense.

Hi guys,

I'm a former Mark VI railie, and I stay in touch with a fair number of folks in the department. Here's what I've heard. I'm going to stress that it's what I've heard, and I can't represent this as absolute fact. Take that for what it's worth.

The short, short version is that Monorail Central cleared Monorail Pink in reverse into the Concourse (the Epcot side of the TTC) station without being aware that Monorail Purple was still in the station. Pink was cleared with MAPO override, meaning that the driver would have disabled the anti-collision system (there are a variety of legitimate reasons for doing this), and would have been acting on faith that Central wouldn't have cleared him into a dangerous situation because it sometimes is difficult to see everything you'd want to in the cab mirrors, particularly at night on a curve such as the one he was backing along. For whatever reason, Purple just sat in the station without attempting to avoid the accident, and was struck by Pink moving at the full 15 mph allowed during MAPO override. From what I understand, the driver of Purple was a new transfer from another department. Why Central would not have made sure the station was clear before moving any trains is a bit of a mystery, but I've heard that no one was actually in the control console (the control tower-looking place at Concourse) at the time. To my knowledge, there were no electrical or mechanical problems in play here. Again, I have to stress that I'm relating what I've heard, and I was not there. This is a second-hand account from others more familiar with the situation.

oh man so operator error. That totally sucks. Why would there even be the option to turn off that safety feature at all? That is just nuts!

 

[Leger13]

Thanks for starting that thread Carla, you're awesome!

you're very welcome. I hope it made you feel special

 

[Disneymommom]

Well, I had the pleasure of finally meeting one of our clan

I met Tat (Nikki) and her two kids, Kyleigh and Shane today at Friendlys.


They went to the shore for the weekend. They ended up at a hotel about 6 mins from my house.


We had a great time. Non stop laughter.

Here are some pics

Here is Nikki reaction to cow magnet I gave her. I searched for 20 mins to find something cow related since I know how much she loves cows

Here is one with Shane this time. We never got one with all of us as our waitress was an old fuddy duddy


Trent closed his eye.....I think he learned that from, as I did that all time growing up

One last final one of Nikki and her daughter Kyleigh

I tried quoting to these posts last night but the computer locked up on me. I am so happy the two of you finally got to meet. That is awesome! You look great together. Trent looks like he enjoyed himself with the kids as well.

You've waited a long time to meet her and finally the day came and I'm thrilled.

So where did Nikki stay that she was only 6 minutes away, the Fairfield? Too bad you two didn't realize it the night before you could have gotten together the night before as well!

Two weeks ago I cleaned Trent room finally. He was actually willing to part with toys and I boxed up a lot of books he is not using right now. I kept only his favorite ones out for now


My mom wanted to see wht his room looked like clean, so that why I am posting these



Looking into his room

His toy organizer

Finally, a clean floor. He actually let me put away his Thomas the tank engine set

I didn't know Trent had a carpet in his room Seriously, that looks great! glad he let you put the trains away though he loves them, he needed to take a break and clean them up so you could walk in there, lol.

 

[Trentmom]

ok



no. but good for you



oh man so operator error. That totally sucks. Why would there even be the option to turn off that safety feature at all? That is just nuts!

Hey girl

after talking to steve, does not appear to be driver error

Definitely mechanical error.

He said managers and all peope at base have a kill switch pack

Can not imagine no one that was standing there, not hitting the switch


Something mechanical had to have failed


But being Disney, we may never know

 

[Leger13]

Hey girl

after talking to steve, does not appear to be driver error

Definitely mechanical error.

He said managers and all peope at base have a kill switch pack

Can not imagine no one that was standing there, not hitting the switch


Something mechanical had to have failed


But being Disney, we may never know

huh okay that is weird for sure. I stand by my previous statement that it seems that someone had a death wish

 

[Disneymommom]

HELLO!HELLO!!HELLO!Is anybody out there?? Late night for UJ........nobody on tonight??? I dont go back to work until Wed.....I'm bored!!!!
Kelly aka sharkster......looked like a good meet!!!! Congrats.....
We all need to do that.......we could meet at Disney...
Lets pick a date........like 2 years from now....plenty of notice for everyone!!!!

Sounds like a great plan to me. I'd love that. Wouldn't it be awesome to have all of us there at one time! That is of course after hanging at Love's!!!!!

Hey UJ

Meet was a ton of fun


We can all crash at Love new house

We can park the 5th wheel at Love's and there's even more room for all of us to crash!

 

[Trentmom]

I tried quoting to these posts last night but the computer locked up on me. I am so happy the two of you finally got to meet. That is awesome! You look great together. Trent looks like he enjoyed himself with the kids as well.

You've waited a long time to meet her and finally the day came and I'm thrilled.

So where did Nikki stay that she was only 6 minutes away, the Fairfield? Too bad you two didn't realize it the night before you could have gotten together the night before as well!

Thanks MOm.

I am glad we finally got to meet you

Yeah, she was at Fairfield.

I did not have my car anyways, so would not have mattered


I didn't know Trent had a carpet in his room Seriously, that looks great! glad he let you put the trains away though he loves them, he needed to take a break and clean them up so you could walk in there, lol.

Funny mother

Thanks..it is nice being able to walk in there

 

[Disneymommom]

For those of us visiting the "motherland" (aka WDW) soon, it looks like they are finally stocking the new re-fillable mugs at the resorts.

http://www.disunplugged.com/2009/02/11/new-walt-disney-world-resort-mugs/

I think they are cute! Just wish they were bigger to hold more drink.

They are cute, I want one!

It stopped shortly after I posted that, then it started up again. Now it's stopped again. I should probably go get my umbrella from the car now.

and it's lunch time...I should really heat up my lunch!

We had rain off and on all day.

 

[Trentmom]

huh okay that is weird for sure. I stand by my previous statement that it seems that someone had a death wish

Could be....Even more said if that is true

Sounds like a great plan to me. I'd love that. Wouldn't it be awesome to have all of us there at one time! That is of course after hanging at Love's!!!!!



We can park the 5th wheel at Love's and there's even more room for all of us to crash!

Speaking of love...when is she coming back?

anyone know?

 

[Disneymommom]

I was reading some other monorail threads, as I am sure there had to be CMs posting with more details.

I copied this from another thread about possibly what happened.


This from micechat.com from a poster. It does make sense.

Hi guys,

I'm a former Mark VI railie, and I stay in touch with a fair number of folks in the department. Here's what I've heard. I'm going to stress that it's what I've heard, and I can't represent this as absolute fact. Take that for what it's worth.

The short, short version is that Monorail Central cleared Monorail Pink in reverse into the Concourse (the Epcot side of the TTC) station without being aware that Monorail Purple was still in the station. Pink was cleared with MAPO override, meaning that the driver would have disabled the anti-collision system (there are a variety of legitimate reasons for doing this), and would have been acting on faith that Central wouldn't have cleared him into a dangerous situation because it sometimes is difficult to see everything you'd want to in the cab mirrors, particularly at night on a curve such as the one he was backing along. For whatever reason, Purple just sat in the station without attempting to avoid the accident, and was struck by Pink moving at the full 15 mph allowed during MAPO override. From what I understand, the driver of Purple was a new transfer from another department. Why Central would not have made sure the station was clear before moving any trains is a bit of a mystery, but I've heard that no one was actually in the control console (the control tower-looking place at Concourse) at the time. To my knowledge, there were no electrical or mechanical problems in play here. Again, I have to stress that I'm relating what I've heard, and I was not there. This is a second-hand account from others more familiar with the situation.

Sounds like its possible but I bet we never hear the true reason and Disney will settle quietly with the family of that driver, so sad!

 

[Disneymommom]

you're very welcome. I hope it made you feel special

It sure did Carla and all the wonderful wishes that everyone sent me via that thread made me feel very special and very happy. Thanks to everyone for all of the wonderful happy birthday wishes! You are all awesome and I love you all!