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  • Discussion relating to the NS operations. Official web site can be found here: NSCORP.COM.
Discussion relating to the NS operations. Official web site can be found here: NSCORP.COM.
 #1482495  by Roscoe P. Coaltrain
 
NS has been having problems in the Chicago area with intermodal trailer break-ins and theft of goods. So they were trying to run a sting in the neighborhoods around Englewood where the police fake an arrest of a truck driver, and haul him off and leave the truck on the side of the road, where other cops were watching to nab any break-in artists once the news of the abandoned truck made it's way around the hood.

Unfortunately, some residents were watching and filming the cops doing their setup work.

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Video is about an hour long, it begins with the occupants of the truck and apprehension vehicles performing their 'job briefing'. A little bit down the road, about 10 minutes into the video, a local cop car pulls the JB Hunt Intermodal semi over and they go through though the motions of a fake arrest. When they set up the truck, they parked it just after city intersections with a crosswalk, so neighborhood residents using the sidewalk would pass right by the rear door of the trailer.

Once the cops know the residents are wise, the truck driver mysteriously re-appears from one of the chase vehicles.

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 #1615080  by Gilbert B Norman
 
The Journal reports that one of the opposition's leaders, a Chicago alderwoman, has been sufficiently appeased with promises of minority hiring, and whatever else, to withdraw her opposition to the project.

It must still be voted upon by the City Council, which might prove problematic in view of the Mayoral election (probably just the "First Heat" with the "runoff" to be held later) at the end of this month.

Fair Use:
CHICAGO—A long-planned expansion of a freight yard where oceangoing containers are moved from railcars to trucks cleared a final hurdle Wednesday, a sign of the third-largest U.S. city’s importance as a rail hub and the challenges of running a railroad in a dense urban area.

The city council approved a measure to turn over the streets and alleys that pass through block after block of empty lots now owned by Norfolk Southern Corp. The railroad began acquiring and eventually demolishing a total of 500 homes in Englewood, one of the city’s poorest neighborhoods, for the multimillion-dollar project in 2008.

The outcome hinged on the railroad’s ability to persuade Alderwoman Jeanette B. Taylor, who had blocked a final vote on the measure last month, that it is serious about hiring minority contractors to complete the project and more residents from the predominantly African-American neighborhood to work at the yard.

“I didn’t start this fight, but I’m good at finishing,” she said during the city council meeting, before saying she would support the measure.