Tuning around and caught beginning of NUMB3RS and was mentioning train wrecks. So recorded it for later viewing. From what I deduce the show premise is: crime is solved when this main character FBI Albert Einstein brained math genius type agent sees patterns in numbers and letters that leads to capturing the bad guy.
Apparently, the story baddie has been wrecking trains on certain dates that correspond to wrecks years ago. Baddie leaves numbered notes that the math guy correlates to an NTSB report of a wreck about to happen two days from now on Cajon pass. Upshot is the engineer from that wreck jumped from train and now lives off the grid, but has put explosives on himself to blow up a nuclear waste train going over the pass. (Still with me?). And of course they scour the yard and one agent realizes the wreck engineer he encountered another time, is posing as a RR cop, and is the baddie. All main FBI characters disarm him, just before the explosive timer reaches zero (whew!).
Oh, reason baddie doing this: to prove RR don't give a **** about safety and maintenance. He is determined to bring RR to their knees and make them pay for his injuries suffered jumping off 90MPH train. Of course, no recognizable trains are shown except one leaving the yard. Its painted yellow over blue and its blue oval and side stripes on the nose are painted out, gee wonder what line that could be (wife instantly said Santa Fe freight colors!). Characters were using enough RR jargon to be believable.
So hokey we laughed most of the way through. But don't think I will bother recording any more numb3rs.
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(and then you say ah-ha name calling eh?)