CRANDIC’s Job 12 crosses Bowling Street SW after working International Paper. October 17, 2018 Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Tuesday was a cloudy dreary day in Kennesaw GA and even CSX 402 leading a northbound didn't seem to brighten things up.
Last week while driving north on Texas Highway 36 through Wallas. Many years ago, the Santa Fe Texas Chief would blow through this town at 100mph.
I recall video on YouTube, several years back. It showed a train being blown off a bridge. Could this be that same bridge?
Ken, I believe what you're referring to is this video of cars being blown off the Huey P. Long Bridge in New Orleans.
Here's video of a CSX grain train picking a switch and hitting the ground in slow motion. The switch is picked around 3:30 which starts the action. However watch near the beginning when the train stops and someone demounts to throw the switch. There was no lock on the throw bar. So my guess is the points didn't get fully seated and began to move after four or five cars passed.
These "meets" occurred along CSX main at Madden Park, Dayton, OH. Each unit has stopped in each photo.
I call this one Close but no cigar.... An eastbound mixed manifest and intermodal eases past Lower Des Lacs Lake, just a few miles SE of Kenmare, ND. Apparently I misjudged the light angle! I didn't like the result much, so I returned after dark. I like this one better!
Such a mess at that speed. Imagine if they'd have been doing forty or fifty mph... Yikes! I wonder what the accident investigation uncovered?
And this is the reason why 'fans need to keep their distance from trains and to give themselves an exit path. Even loose steel strapping passing by at speed could be serious. In the extreme, we had a boxcar door fall off and fatally crush an employee during my summer working for the Santa Fe.
