crossposted from: https://feddit.it/post/29954054
Source and additional pics:
https://beige.party/@Lana/116684403003398772
Also from the same thread:
For people who aren’t intimately knowledgeable about the Seattle rail system, the Mt Baker station is an elevated platform. Meaning she had to have driven the WRONG WAY on a railroad about 40 feet up in the air for SEVERAL MILES to end up here.
Edit: it looks like it was not “several miles” but less then one mile; a notable feat anyway:
I mean, to be fair, once you’ve left the surface you can’t exactly get off the rails.
Yeah maybe they just like, got stuck. Can’t really turn around either.
I imagine that is what happened. Fear of reversing can make somebody plunge further ahead with some hope they could get out of it at a lower point with no repercussions? Still the wrong move but people be dumb
She was also driving north on the southbound tracks. After that station, you head into a long underground tunnel as the train passes through the downtown.
Hope might spring eternal, but every bit going forward was actually more dangerous than the bit before for her and the thousand people on each train.