Train OOPS!

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and Henro is worried about drilling holes in his ROPS!!! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

I wonder how "stupid is" with that boat underneath the hole mess up above. That piling could move at any time and you ain't going to move that boat fast enough to get away. It would be interesting to see if they actually disconnected the cars above the pilling and pulled the train out from both directions.

Good story though
murph
 
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</font><font color="blue" class="small">( It would be interesting to see if they actually disconnected the cars above the pilling and pulled the train out from both directions.
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Yeah, my suggestion was to pull on both ends of the train and find somebody with a really low IQ to go out there and disconnect between the two cars. Maybe one of the guys in the boat is a good candidate. /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif
 
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Now that's a "pucker-factor" story!!!! /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 
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Interesting story--any residents living in that area should be very grateful the tank cars were loaded with lightweight inert materials instead of heavy flammable liquids, corrosives, or other hazardous materials. /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif
 
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</font><font color="blue" class="small">( grateful the tank cars were loaded with lightweight inert materials instead of heavy flammable liquids, corrosives, or other hazardous materials. )</font>

I think you are right. Recently we have had two train derailments near me and one leaked a lot of hydrogen peroxide and bottles of wine. Luckily it wasn't too hard to clean up. ...of course all the folks within a 1-mile radius woke up with blond hair and drunk. /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

That bridge in Livingston is very interesting and unique according to my friend's father-in-law. It has 5 sections and they are all different. It's like each section was engineered by a different person. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
 
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What is amazing to me is that the bridge is 70 years old and they are just going to replace one section. Plus it said carries 8 trains a day.
Call me crazy(most people do), but I think it would be time for a new bridge.
 
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Railroad mentality does not provide for a "Clean-Sweep" Rejuvenation.........To them Time is Mega-Bucks.So They always take the "Quick-Fix"

Eight Trains a Day is very Light traffic. /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif
 
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</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Railroad mentality does not provide for a "Clean-Sweep" Rejuvenation.........To them Time is Mega-Bucks.So They always take the "Quick-Fix"

Eight Trains a Day is very Light traffic. /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif )</font>

They take the quick fix so they can keep the frieght going. In the area of our cabin there has been three derailments in the last 6 years. The last one the train derailed about 35 cars at 4 in the moring and by noon they had trains going through again on one set of tracks. They came in each time and pushed the cars away from the tracks with big bulldozers and they then set pre-built tracks in and one line open. In the next week they finished cleaning all the other cars up hauling them out or cutting up whatever and finished re-doing the second line. Amazing as good ole Burlington Northern only slowed up deliveries by 8 hours for the most part except for the cars that derailed.

murph /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif
 
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Jinman:

Without getting into a lengthy reply, I see from the position of the engine, I'd say that the engineer was in a braking mode as he crossed the bridge. All bridges are built on trunnions. The spans actually move laterally. If the spans were ridged, the effects of thermal expansion and contraction would cause the bridge to destroy itself. As a locomotive and its consist (cars) move across a span, the engineer cannot apply the brakes, as the weight of the locomotives and cars will cause the span to shift violently in the direction of the forward movement of the train. That is what it looks like happened here. If you cross and highway span, you will notice metal plates at each end. These plates are overlapped to cover the gap allowed for movement. In large spans, finger joints are used. If you sit in a stationary position on a bridge or span and there is vehicular traffic movement on the span, you can feel the movement relative to the flow of vehicles. Without that movement, the span would self-destruct.

If you take a 60 ton locomotive and a number of cars at say 30,000 pounds each and slam on the brakes on a span, the result would be what is in the picture.
 

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