As train 8017 made its way
through salerno, Italy, on March 2, 1944,
there was no indication of impending disaster.
The chugging train didn’t derail or burn.
But shortly after 1:00 a.m., the train loaded
with 600 passengers lumbered into the Galleria delle Armi.
When two locomotives pulling the train
were halfway through the tunnel,
their drive wheels began to slip.
The wheels lost traction and the train stopped.
All else is speculation
since both engineers died
Carbon monoxide snuffed out
the lives of nearly 500 people.
As analysts surveyed the wreckage,
they found that the leading locomotive was unbraked,
but its throttle was positioned “full ahead.”
The two locomotives had pulled
and pushed against each other,
each engineer obviously having fatally different ideas
about what to do!
Some have speculated that no lives
would have been lost of the engineers
had been in agreement about which direction to go.
Today,
make a decision with your spouse
that you will both move your thought life
in the direction of God then stay close by controls of your minds.
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