Any chance those cracks might have been caused by radiation damage? We might have to do some added metallurgical inspections of the entire car.
Next time that car is moved in a train, put it on the rear- after its little visit to Colorado, it could be used as the world's biggest FRED. laugh:laugh:laugh:laugh:
the night crew finally moved the car into the shop well after dark, and under the bright lights, the carman noticed a cracked weld on the end step, so over into the welding bay for a quick repair the gon went. by the time the welder got around to the repair, (I think he's the owner's nephew) the Boss said "they can fix 'er in the morning boys, it's time to go home!"
When you have a load of slop made up of animal parts to be shipped to a rendering plant, it can glow a little. Mostly it just stinks. Kind of corrosive too. Maybe that is what was in that car.
The next morning, a fine spring day, the crew decided to work outside, besides the lift was already in use, their decision gives a camera ready railfan the full show! the gon is jacked up, and the bad axle is freed.
Just after the jack is lowered, the shop foreman comes around to do the final inspection, and sign off on the repairs right away, the switcher shows up to move TBX 3401 out to the ready track.
the damaged wheel up close After lunch, I caught 3401 in the daily local headed southeast out of town, rumored to be headed down to the tie yard for the order the MOW crew has been waiting on, If I'm lucky, I'll catch it coming back thru in a day or so.
Some yahoo decided to park a sedan under a tanker on the interstate, and a station wagon ended up in there too!.
I just caught word that TBX 3401 was back in the shops again. I wonder what they could be fixing this time... o2pz::alien:
River Eagle: love the car in the midst of the TCC cars! THat's is Excellent! Too bad about the tanker. At least it hadn't caught fire yet.
