It's not clear whether the backhoe in question was a train backhoe that runs on the tracks or a piece of general construction equipment.
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A Georgia-bound train struck a backhoe on the tracks, killing the backhoe operator and another Amtrak construction worker on foot and sending 35 people to hospital.
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Working a backhoe isn't that different from working robotics, actually.
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Amtrak has said southbound Train 89 had hit a backhoe.
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A backhoe was dragging away parts of the collapsed structure.
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"A good backhoe operator can be surprisingly delicate," Ms. Loorya said.
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He didn't see the backhoe that lay ahead on the track.
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He didn't see the backhoe that lay ahead on the track.
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A backhoe moves salt inside the Farragut Salt Dome on Jan.
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A few months later, a backhoe crunched into skeletons and coffins.
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A few seconds later, the backhoe tugs on a chunk of debris.
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He then stabilizes the backhoe and gets to work on the ATM.
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The standoff ended after authorities used a backhoe to breach the building. 5.
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And finally, there are some more general constructions — like this one-man backhoe:
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The question of how to tackle climate change—chain ourselves to backhoe loaders?
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Kettler/Rolly Toys John Deere Loader with backhoe (ages 3 to 6, $340).
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One of her allies called this deploying a "retroexcavadora" (backhoe loader) against this legacy.
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Even an errant backhoe can ding one up, derailing plans thousands of miles away.
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When the shot ended, the backhoe was started up, and a familiar din resumed.
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A giant backhoe was slicing up some of Hotevilla, the bastion of traditional Hopi.
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The backhoe operator, Joseph Carter Jr., 61, and his supervisor, Peter Adamovich, 59, died.
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Police have brought in heavy equipment to search the 68-acre farm, including a backhoe.
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"We have requested heavy equipment like a backhoe, so we can penetrate further," he said.
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Caterpillar's main brand is the maker of construction equipment such as backhoe loaders and excavators.
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He then drove a backhoe to the site, dug a hole and buried the body.
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Here's a helpful gear list: tent, hiking boots, fly rod, tool belt, backhoe… Wait — what?
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A backhoe moved dirt to fill in narrow paths that ran between concrete and brick houses.
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With colleagues, he dug a fire break with a backhoe and hosed down the wooden structure.
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The news agency said Amtrak typically schedules backhoe work on weekends when fewer trains are running.
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The big unanswered questions: Why was the backhoe on the track near Chester, just south of Philadelphia?
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The two fatalities were found on or near the backhoe, Pennsylvania Emergency Management spokeswoman Ruth Miller said.
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He owned a backhoe and bulldozer and spent most of his life working in construction and maintenance.
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Dinardo allegedly used a backhoe to dig a 6-foot-deep hole and bury Patrick, investigators said.
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Taking a backhoe to the gravelly soils, largely of decomposed sandstone with quartz, he found excellent drainage.
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The rumble of a backhoe digging into the building's remains and the whir of helicopters overhead dominated.
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"There is a very characteristic 'pop' sound when a backhoe goes through a skull," Ms. Moran said.
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But workers using a backhoe should never be allowed on an active track, under any circumstances, Zarembski said.
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DiNardo then allegedly used a backhoe to dig a hole about 6-feet deep, and buried Patrick inside.
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Dinardo then drove the backhoe over Meo and "basically crushes him," Kratz told police, according to the complaint.
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Now someone had an equally unsuccessful time trying to bust into one with using a stolen construction backhoe.
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Dinardo allegedly used a backhoe to dig a 6-foot-deep hole and bury him, the affidavit states.
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On Sunday, two workers were killed when an Amtrak train struck a backhoe on the tracks near Philadelphia.
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This isn't news, but it is still sobering to see the planet ruined one backhoe at a time.
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But when authorities used a backhoe to storm it at dawn, they found a hostage corrections officer unresponsive.
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Thursday, they used a state Department of Correction backhoe to breach C Building and enter the prison, Coupe said.
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In 2016, it raised over $100,000 to dig a hole for as long as consumers would fund the backhoe.
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Dinardo, out of ammunition, gets in the backhoe and drives over Meo, crushing him to death, the complaint states.
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The engineer said he pulled the emergency brake as soon as he spotted the backhoe sitting on the track.
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According to brokers and neighbors, crews have been working daily at the site with an oversize backhoe and bulldozer.
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Trump, especially, is working the backhoe on the racial divide, finding sports to be a place to roil debate.
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As helicopters circled overhead, the police used a backhoe to dig up part of the ground, including some concrete.
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Mr. DiNardo used the backhoe to dig a hole and then put the three partly burned bodies into it.
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Workers used a backhoe loader Friday morning to tow the Jeep away, video posted by Myrtle Beach police shows.
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With grudging permission from the developer, PMC Property Group, construction was halted whenever a backhoe turned up another body.
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"We need a backhoe, but they (authorities) have to authorize it first and they don&apost give permission," Esqueque said.
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Chuck Schumer, D-New York, said the two people killed were the backhoe operator and his supervisor, both Amtrak employees.
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"The fact that there was a backhoe manned by Amtrak personnel -- that's an even higher level of concern," he said.
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Amtrak later said in a statement that that "something" was in fact a backhoe that was parked on the tracks.
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The work involved using the backhoe to remove gravel and replace it with ballast distributed by a nearby work train.
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Amazon description: Follow the adventures of best friends and unlikely heroes, Stinky the garbage truck and Dirty the backhoe loader.
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Mr. Holm confirmed that a photograph of a large jagged hole, apparently dug with a backhoe, showed an open latrine.
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Nadal was equal parts flash and dusty determination, a Ferrari equipped with a backhoe — and the crowd relished every second.
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But I see automation coming for all drivers pretty soon — taxi, bus, garbage truck, delivery van, backhoe, you name it.
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A pregnant migrant gave birth in the bucket of a backhoe on one ranch, then continued hiking, holding her baby.
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An image shared exclusively on National Geographic reveals a backhoe crossing a flat landscape surrounded by a cloud of dust.
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Cheryl Elder, who lives nearby, told AP she heard what sounded like a backhoe and jackhammer at least until 2 a.m.
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While smoking a cigarette with a fireman and watching the Pile, a backhoe unearths something with a cloud of colored smoke.
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A local man who was clearing a lot with a backhoe suddenly found himself digging up film reels, and he paused.
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Rescuers "were able to get a backhoe to take off some of the dirt so they could get out," Diaz said.
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Critic's Pick In this sobering documentary, Nikolaus Geyrhalter looks at how humans are changing the planet one backhoe at a time.
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More recently, a 40-year-old Oklahoma man was killed in a backhoe accident this month at an oilfield near Ninnekah.
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A backhoe operator scraped up a fossil, and scientists soon unearthed a full collection of bones, teeth, and tusks from a mastodon.
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I drove over and saw a yellow backhoe taking crunching bites out of the ceiling, then smashing down through the second floor.
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He allegedly stole an ATM from a bank using a stolen backhoe and fired at Mamou police, authorities said in court documents.
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The backhoe was struck by Amtrak's Train 89, known as the Palmetto, which left New York City on schedule about 6 a.m.
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She thought she'd found one in Dan Wynne, who worked at a backhoe company and drove a nice truck, candy-apple red.
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Twelve shell casings from an AR-15 were found in the area where the backhoe was abandoned minutes after the theft, police said.
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Fortunately the huge stones of the tholos tomb prevented even the backhoe operator from making much progress or destroying the site's archaeological value.
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A backhoe struck a butane pipeline near butane storage spheres and the 31,20053 barrel per day (bpd) Alkylation 3 Unit at about 9 a.m.
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Disinterments typically start the same way — a backhoe quickly clears the topsoil — but each exhumation is unique, depending on the condition of the corpse.
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We found them standing inside a fault trench, a 50-foot-long cut in the ground dug by a backhoe, perpendicular to the fault.
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Dinardo allegedly used the backhoe to lift their bodies up and put them in the metal tank with Finocchiaro's body, according to the complaint.
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Dinardo allegedly used the backhoe to lift their bodies up and drop them in the metal tank with Finocchiaro's body, according to the complaint.
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Dinardo and Kratz returned to the property the next afternoon and used the backhoe to dig a hole and bury Finocchiaro, Meo and Sturgis.
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Backhoe was joined shortly afterward by "akalak," which we soon discovered was a catchall for the excavator branch of the construction machinery family tree.
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The crash killed backhoe operator Joseph Carter, 61, and Peter Adamovich, 59, who was on foot, according to the Delaware County medical examiner's office.
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Mr. Frigo said the backhoe was on the track on which the train was traveling, and the work train was on an adjacent track.
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In the Pennsylvania accident, an Amtrak train struck a backhoe working on railroad tracks in Chester, Pennsylvania, killing two maintenance workers and injuring 41.
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One by one, an orange loader scooped them off the bare sandy soil and trundled them to a pit being dug by a backhoe.
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The complaints said that Mr. DiNardo ran out of ammunition and, to make sure Mr. Meo was dead, he drove over him with the backhoe.
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Mr. DiNardo used the backhoe to put both bodies into the same tank that held Mr. Finocchiaro's body, poured gasoline on them, and lit it.
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In the clip, Arabella is sitting in the driver's seat of a backhoe, while safely being instructed on its functions by an adult leading the operations.
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In April 2016 a train traveling from New York hit a backhoe tractor on railroad tracks in Chester, Pennsylvania, killing two maintenance workers and injuring 41.
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The crash occurred Sunday morning when an Amtrak train carrying 341 people slammed into a backhoe on the track near Philadelphia, killing the two construction workers.
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The ruins of a mosque that collapsed in Lading-Lading village while people prayed inside was being pulled apart by a backhoe in search of victims.
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Dinardo uses the backhoe to pick up Meo and Sturgis and put their bodies in the same metal tank where he earlier had placed Finocchiaro's body.
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Ford is busily writing a new narrative — his final one, it seems, from comments he makes — and tearing up the place with a backhoe in preparation.
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Miller's loyal producer, Robert Whitehead (John Hickok), is more like a backhoe, constantly providing information to the audience by telling Miller things he would already know.
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UTTOXETER, England — On the second-to-last day of Britain's landmark election campaign, Prime Minister Boris Johnson drove a backhoe through a wall of Styrofoam bricks.
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The train, which was carrying about 330 passengers, smashed into a backhoe outside of Philadelphia, killing the two workers and injuring 35 people on board the train.
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Patrick was shot and killed on July 5, and Dinardo allegedly used a backhoe to dig a 6-foot-deep hole and bury him, the affidavit states.
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Dinardo and Kratz returned to the property the next afternoon and used the backhoe to dig a hole and bury Finocchiaro, Meo and Sturgis, the complaint says.
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An Amtrak train traveling from New York in April 2016 struck a backhoe working on railroad tracks in Chester, Pennsylvania, killing two maintenance workers and injuring 41.
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There are all kinds of ways to pull off a heist, from dressing up like a nun to commandeering a backhoe to breaking into a speeding van.
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As the scientists drove out of the valley, Dr. Sanín noticed holes carved by a backhoe in the high earthen bank flanking the road: evidence of recent prospecting.
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"The collision obliterated the backhoe, sending pieces of the equipment throughout the area and into the west side of the first passenger coach," according to an analysis report.
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Dinardo drives the property's backhoe to that remote location and digs a hole about six feet deep, puts Patrick's body in the ground and buries him, the complaint states.
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Dinardo wraps Finocchiaro's body in a blue tarp and then uses the backhoe to place him into a metal tank that Dinardo calls the "pig roaster," according to police.
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On the afternoon of March 29, a worker at the University of Kansas accidentally damaged a large fiber optic cable around campus, apparently running it over with a backhoe.
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A team of investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board arrived at the scene on Sunday afternoon to determine why the equipment, a backhoe, was on an active track.
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And, so, in addition to the éleveurs (animal farmers), there are agriculteurs (farmers in general), knife-makers, beekeepers, hot-tub venders, insurance agents, representatives of feed conglomerates, backhoe salesmen.
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In Terra Alta, W.Va., when most of the town's employees could not make it to work, Mayor Mark Ball used his own tractor and backhoe to clear streets and driveways.
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A Maryland man recently learned this lesson the hard way when he stole a backhoe, drove it five miles, and then attempted to excavate some cash out of an ATM.
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At the table are retired school teachers from Omaha, a backhoe operator from Perth, a 60-ish former New Jersey state policeman and his wife, who manages a law office.
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Brad Paisley and his wife, Kimberly, just broke ground on a Nashville grocery store that will be free for people in need (yep, that's Brad up there in the backhoe).
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A dilemma facing railroads is whether to spend funds expanding PTC systems to service vehicles like the backhoe involved in Sunday's crash, or put money into upgrades of aging rail infrastructure.
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Officials are still investigating how the backhoe working on the tracks was struck by a Georgia-bound train in Chester, Pennsylvania, killing two construction workers and sending 35 people to hospital.
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The train's lead engine was partially derailed after the train – bound for Savannah, Georgia, from New York City – struck a backhoe south of Philadelphia, Amtrak said in a statement to PEOPLE.
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Nearby, a small backhoe and white work trucks sit parked near the concrete foundation for a new venture - a planned drive-through cannabis shop, as well as a larger travel plaza.
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In 2016, after an Amtrak train struck a backhoe and killed two track maintenance workers in Chester, Pa., the National Transportation Safety Board criticized Amtrak for having a weak safety culture.
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The big machine, called a backhoe or digger, has wide, knobby tires almost as tall as a man, and steel scoops front and rear for digging holes and shoving earth around.
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"They never expected to find anything," said Dr. Bergoffen, who was called in by the developer, Yuco Real Estate Company, after the backhoe hit the top of one of the vaults.
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Chester, Pennsylvania (CNN)Amtrak said Monday it will restore service, albeit with some delays, along the route where one of its trains carrying 341 passengers crashed into a backhoe the day before.
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The affidavit alleges DiNardo confessed he then ran over Meo with the backhoe before using it to lift both bodies into a metal oil tank, where he had already placed Finocchiaro's corpse.
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Photos from the scene showed a Railvac Excavator, a rail-mounted excavation machine that may have been the backhoe in question, although another photo showed a lone wheel laying alongside the tracks.
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Rachael was working through her P.T.S.D. , and Evelyn was mourning her husband, "a gorgeous backhoe operator" she met while working for a pipeline company, who dropped dead of an aneurysm, in 2005.
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As a backhoe slowly lifted the rubble off cars, some of them with bodies still inside, investigators said they were only beginning to consider possible failures of engineering, construction and traffic planning.
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A size XL, born-in-Texas backhoe was urgently helicoptered to the site, watched now by all the world's news media, and the potato was lifted and trucked away for scientific analysis.
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Officers instead confined them to their car — out of sight of the wooded hillside where a backhoe was digging — for six hours that first day before they were finally allowed up the hill.
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Brooks has installed suburban rooftops near Times Square, planted a forest of artificial trees in Toronto, dabbled in the black market for exotic fish, and buried a backhoe at Storm King Art Center.
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The violence had been planned in advance, witnesses told the court, and the gunmen, backed by corrupt local police officers on their payroll, tried to bury the remains using a government-owned backhoe.
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For the Lakers, who had seemingly hit rock bottom when they lost to the Phoenix Suns two weeks ago, it was another opportunity to rev up the backhoe and dig a little deeper.
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According to Schumer, it's unclear whether the backhoe was on the tracks to perform regular maintenance, or if it was being used to clear debris left overnight by heavy winds in the area.
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Two people were killed and more than three dozen people were injured following the derailment of an Amtrak train Sunday morning after it struck a backhoe on the tracks in Pennsylvania, authorities tell PEOPLE.
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Valenzuela said he killed the couple and then cleaned his home to remove any trace of blood, wrapped the bodies in a blanket and tarp and buried them with a friend's backhoe, documents showed.
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A source close to the investigation told CNN the two construction workers, who reportedly have been identified as the backhoe operator and his supervisor, made a "colossal" mistake by operating on the wrong track.
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Video of the subsequent five-car pile-up shows scores of hagfish zipping across the asphalt as the Oregon State Police try to contain the slime-drenched horror scene with a backhoe and hoses.
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When one of her allies promised to take a retroexcavadora (the graphic Spanish word for a backhoe loader) to Pinochet's "neoliberal model" under which many public services are privately provided, she did not contradict him.
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The two Amtrak workers killed were an operator of the backhoe and a supervisor, said Senator Chuck Schumer, Democrat of New York, who said he had been briefed by Anthony Coscia, the chairman of Amtrak.
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"I think most girls growing up are not told 'You could drive the big crane, you could drive a backhoe, you could be the ironworker hanging up in the sky putting skyscrapers together,'" Skidmore says.
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An attacker could cripple a lot of traffic on the internet by using a backhoe and/or submarines to cut many of the key fiber-optic cables that serve as the backbone of the internet.
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The affidavit alleges DiNardo confessed he then ran over Meo with the backhoe, crushing him to death, before using it to lift both bodies into a metal oil tank, where he had already placed Finocchiaro's corpse.
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The following day, Dinardo told police he and Kratz returned to the property, where DiNardo allegedly used the backhoe to dig a deep hole and bury the tank containing the three bodies, according to the affidavit.
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He does cheat with a backhoe, a headlamp and food deliveries, but his friend and personal heckler, Burt, offers to compensate by setting the dogs on him and trying to run him over on the road.
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The IUOE's new robotic excavator is the result of an unusual partnership with Built Robotics, a San Francisco startup that sells a box that can enable a backhoe or bulldozer to pilot itself for some tasks.
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Palmetto Train 89, which was carrying 341 passengers and seven crew members, was on its way from New York to Savannah, Georgia when it reportedly hit a backhoe that was parked on or near the tracks.
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Instead, the youthful 259-year-old returned to his job a three-hour journey away as a backhoe operator for a jade mining company, keen to earn money to support a growing family, four relatives told Reuters.
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Instead, the youthful 743-year-old returned to his job a three-hour journey away as a backhoe operator for a jade mining company, keen to earn money to support a growing family, four relatives told Reuters.
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Garbus is especially good at creating a sense of foreboding, even if she and the script sometimes hit their notes overly hard (as with the metaphorically burdened image of Mari operating a backhoe at a construction job).
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Taking refuge from the afternoon glare in the shadow of a Caterpillar backhoe, Mr. Christie greeted some of the 50 or so people who had braved the bracing November weather to witness their governor receive the recognition.
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In November, the National Transportation Safety Board criticized what it called Amtrak's "weak safety culture" after finding that unsafe conditions led to an Amtrak train's striking a backhoe working on tracks in Pennsylvania, killing two maintenance workers.
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The authorities brought in cadaver dogs and heavy construction equipment, including a backhoe, and led a careful examination of the land "not to miss the tiniest piece of evidence," the county's district attorney, Matthew D. Weintraub, said.
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PHOENIX (Reuters) - An Arizona man was sentenced on Monday to life in prison for killing a couple and burying them in his backyard in a 6-foot-deep grave he dug with a borrowed backhoe, his lawyer said.
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On live television, local fire department personnel and a good Samaritan with a backhoe needed just 80 minutes in a suburb of St. Louis to dislodge the shaken cow, which immediately headed off to graze on some grass.
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The Amtrak train that slammed into a backhoe on Sunday morning in Chester, Pa., leaving two workers dead on the tracks, was barreling along at 106 miles an hour seconds before the crash, federal investigators said on Monday.
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Two people were killed in the incident – who were "in, on or near the backhoe at the time of collision" – and 37 people were taken for treatment with non-life-threatening injuries, Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency spokeswoman Ruth Miller told PEOPLE.
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Sean Kratz was accused of helping his cousin Cosmo DiNardo in a plot that involved luring the men to the family farm in suburban Philadelphia, ambushing and killing them, burning their bodies and crushing one with a backhoe before burying them.
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On that isolated farm, the four men were shot, one of them was run over with a backhoe, three of the bodies were burned in a pig roaster, and the four were buried in makeshift graves on the sprawling property.
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Maryland police are currently searching for a thief in Prince George's County who stole a backhoe, drove it five miles to a nearby bank, and went to town on the drive-thru ATM with the piece of excavating equipment, WTOP reports.
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PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - Accident investigators will interview survivors of a construction crew on Tuesday to determine why a backhoe occupied the same track as an Amtrak train that slammed into the heavy equipment, killing two people and sending 35 others to hospital.
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On Friday, March 2408, Matthews, along with Scott County Coroner John Goble, Fayette County Coroner Gary Ginn, staff from both offices and the Kentucky State Police went to the cemetery about a mile south of Georgetown with a backhoe and shovels.
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Local authorities and a team from the Philadelphia office of the F.B.I., along with cadaver dogs, combed through the farm, sifting the soil between rows of corn, digging up concrete with a backhoe, and surveying the land on all-terrain vehicles.
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Prosecutors said that Mr. DiNardo lured the victims to a remote family farm in central Bucks County over two days, and along with Mr. Kratz shot them, ran one of them over with a backhoe and burned three of the bodies.
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According to the Associated Press, New York Senator Chuck Schumer told reporters at a news conference unrelated to the crash that Amtrak board chairman Anthony Coscia informed him that two Amtrak workers — the backhoe operator and a supervisor — were killed.
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The four young victims, who went missing last week, were lured to the remote property with promises of buying marijuana, but they were shot and killed, and buried in graves dug by a backhoe, according to the Bucks County, Pennsylvania, district attorney.
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Slinking into the sack for a precious few hours of sleep, you don't want to fool yourself into a slouch, from which nothing short of a backhoe truck can recover you, particularly if you tend to sleep on your back or stomach.
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SAN MIGUEL LOS LOTES, Guatemala (Reuters) - Eleven days after the Fuego volcano rained down on the Guatemalan village of San Miguel Los Lotes, a backhoe ripped the roof off one of the homes buried by ash, revealing a corpse in the still-hot dust.
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In November, the NTSB criticized what it termed Amtrak's "weak safety culture" after finding that a series of unsafe conditions led to an Amtrak train striking a backhoe working on railroad tracks in Chester, Pennsylvania, in 2016, killing two maintenance workers and injuring 41.
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MAN WHO ENLISTED COUSIN IN PENNSYLVANIA FARM MURDERS PLEADS GUILTY, TOLD HE&aposLL &aposMEET SAVAGE&apos IN PRISON The 21-year-old then explained, with chilling detail, how he finished killing Meo with a backhoe -- which was later used to bury the bodies of the four men.
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In the afternoon, Dinardo and Kratz return to the farm and use the backhoe to dig a 21-foot-deep hole -- about 250/28-mile away from Patrick's grave -- and bury the "pig roaster" containing the charred bodies of Finocchiaro, Meo and Sturgis, the complaint states.
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A tough-as-old-boots, indoor hat-wearer, Maggie is incredulous when the long-estranged Ben — a wastrel with a grotty trailer and not much else — shows up with a backhoe and a scheme to weasel a share of the land he claims is rightfully his.
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The rail line suffered three crashes in one day: one near Philly that killed two workers when a train hit a backhoe; a person died in Illinois when a train hit a vehicle; and a person was injured after being hit by a train in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
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Earlier Wednesday, the remaining occupiers took a vote and decided to dig in and stay; on a streaming video from inside the refuge, a handful of men could be seen carrying long guns, operating a backhoe belonging to the federal government and speaking darkly of a blood bath.
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Stinky the garbage truck (the voice of Jaden Betts) and Dirty the backhoe loader (Jacob Guenther) — best friends and unlikely heroes plucked from the pages of the "I Stink!" books, by Kate and Jim McMullan — learn success through resourcefulness and a lot of "what ifs" when things don't go their way.
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What greeted me was the National Grid crew standing silently at attention near their huge yellow backhoe loader while the film crew, standing just as noiselessly near their own gear, stared at monitors, held mikes, or otherwise were quietly busy with internet affairs on their smartphones as the take progressed.
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The local district ranger at the time was worried, too, and asked Brown whether she and her team could help reduce the forest's fuel load by doing some thinning—something the Forest Service does either by sending in loggers with chainsaws or by using a backhoe-like machine called a masticator, which shreds anything in its path.
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The remains were discovered in a 12.5-foot-deep "common grave" on the Bucks County farm, where local authorities, as well as an evidence response team from the Philadelphia office of the F.B.I., have brought in cadaver dogs, sifted through soil in rows of corn stalks, dug up concrete with a backhoe and surveyed the land on all-terrain vehicles.
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In what was inevitably characterized at the time as a Christmas miracle, the Art Deco neon sign was pulled almost literally from the ashes — "It was attached to the facade, which was leaning and about to cave in," Ms. Gornik said — and plucked from the structure with a backhoe and taken for storage by the owners of a local moving company.
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"It's more difficult [when graves are in residential areas] because they are private property and we have to go through legal procedures to dig … There are places where there is cement and you have to get a backhoe … it's much more complicated than if you go to an open field," Guadalupe Aguilar, a member of the Families United for Our Missing in Jalisco organization, told Zona Docs.
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For the 55-year-old prime minister, whose brief tenure has been marked by legal setbacks, scorched-earth politics and unrelenting turmoil, it would be a striking political vindication, one that belies his clownish image and positions him to lead Britain through its most radical transition since the end of World War II. "This is a momentous occasion for our country," Mr. Johnson told workers at a gleaming new factory built by JCB, a British construction-equipment maker in the Midlands, after he had climbed out of the backhoe.
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