Besides the chains also banding from box cars they use to use for grain doors,
Bull Bars on Stock cars(the bar was on a chain and held the livestock in until
you got the door all the way open). I always stop way back at a crossing so
brake shoes, pallets dirt and rail cars hopefully will not hit me.
One nite going home from Galesburg on Rt. 41 south at Wick's Crossing(just
south of the tie plant) we were stopped for a coal train which had changed
crews so was departing very slow. When the train cleared the cars started
across the crossing. But the north bound cars were all going around one car
stopped dead in the road. As I went by going south I looked over and there was
a person in the drivers seat head back sound asleep. Dead in the middle of
the road
Got to watch the crossings.
SJH
----- Original Message -----
From: tenn_central
To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Friday, January 19, 2007 11:00 PM
Subject: [CBQ] Re: Cat Job
--- In CBQ@yahoogroups.com, <sholding@...> wrote:
>
You could always tell when the Cat Job had an extra Conductor as the
chains would be dragging on the chain down flats. Just the thing to
pull up a switch or get caught in the frog.
I've always known that dragging cables and chains are dangerous because
they could hit a person or objects next to the train. But until
recently I never knew they could throw a switch. A CSX train was
passing through a yard here in western Kentucky and split a switch.
The subsequent investigation revealed that a cable hanging off a car
had snagged a switch handle and threw the switch underneath the train.
Fortunately the train was traveling about 5mph and the damage was
minimal.
Cliff Downey
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