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Post by sixshot on Feb 6, 2019 1:34:49 GMT -5
Thursday a train got about 4 miles south of Soda Springs & because of the deep snow on both sides of the tracks 31 head of elk had no place to run except straight away & they died. There were actually more than that hit but some survived, 31 died. One of my grandson's, along with several others assisted the Idaho Fish & Game skin many of them so some of the meat could be salvaged.
Several years ago the same thing happened to a large herd of Antelope west of American Falls, the bad news was that almost half of the Antelope in that unit were lost. Unusual but it happens!
Dick
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Post by taffin on Feb 6, 2019 2:42:36 GMT -5
Thursday a train got about 4 miles south of Soda Springs & because of the deep snow on both sides of the tracks 31 head of elk had no place to run except straight away & they died. There were actually more than that hit but some survived, 31 died. One of my grandson's, along with several others assisted the Idaho Fish & Game skin many of them so some of the meat could be salvaged. Several years ago the same thing happened to a large herd of Antelope west of American Falls, the bad news was that almost half of the Antelope in that unit were lost. Unusual but it happens! Dick I THINK THAT WAS ABOUT 50 YEARS AGO. |
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Post by bushog on Feb 6, 2019 8:06:00 GMT -5
I would never have thought of such a thing happening. We have the elk but not many trains in N New Mexico. Some out East I guess but not many elk there...
Bad news...
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Post by contender on Feb 6, 2019 9:26:58 GMT -5
Wow. At least the meat didn't go to waste. Kudos on saving it.
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Post by magnumwheelman on Feb 6, 2019 9:43:14 GMT -5
well... likely they saved 50-60% of the meat, & definitely kudos for that... deer hit by cars are a pretty iffy proposition... I'd guess a train could bruise up a lot of meat... funny the national news is so full of "breaking" political crap news, that they didn't cover a story like this...  |
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Post by sixshot on Feb 6, 2019 11:31:56 GMT -5
My grandson said it was quite a mess, they were strung out for a long way because it takes a train quite a while to get stopped. Two of my grandson's help brand calves on that Harris ranch where all this took place along the Bear River.
John, it could have been that long ago with the Antelope, it was sometime after I came out of the military in 1970.
Dick
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Post by Rimfire69 on Feb 6, 2019 11:40:48 GMT -5
That happened in Montana only a few years back, the antelope got on the tracks near Havre I think it was.
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Post by jfs on Feb 6, 2019 13:06:44 GMT -5
Dick, A friend in Idaho sent me a link to that article... I`am impressed to know that your grandson help to salvage those 31 elk... 
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Post by boxhead on Feb 21, 2019 0:45:23 GMT -5
When we lived in NW Calgary there were grizzly bear killed just north every year eating grain on the railroad tracks.
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Post by akray on Feb 28, 2019 12:33:30 GMT -5
The Alaska Railroad kills moose every winter too. This, from a story on March 2, 1985: An Alaska Railroad freight train killed 24 moose in a single night this week.
''It was a terrible night,'' said the railroad's general manager, Frank Turpin.
Arnold Polanchek, assistant general manager of the state-owned line, which runs 525 miles between Seward and Fairbanks, added: ''Normally, you hit one or two a trip. I've been here 14 years and I can't remember anything like it.''
The moose, killed Wednesday between Anchorage and Fairbanks, died one by one as they walked along the ploughed track rather than in snow up to 18 inches deep, said Capt. Wayne Fleek, a state Fish and Wildlife officer. Fourteen died on the northbound trip and 10 on the way back, Mr. Polanchek said. The train, equipped with a steel cowcatcher, was not damaged, he said.
''There's a natural trough that moose will get into and just don't want to get out of,'' said Mr. Polanchek. The train, normally traveling at 40 miles an hour, cannot stop in time to avoid hitting the animals, he said.
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