[CBQ] Re: 1910 near miss

["Mitch" <soocarman79@yahoo.com>]

What a great article. What drama, in my mind I can see this playing out. The 
stuff stories and legends are made out of.
Mitch
--- In CBQ@yahoogroups.com, dhartman@... wrote:
>
> I happened upon the following article in the January 12, 1910, Aurora Beacon. 
> What is also interesting is that it was only one of three large articles on 
> the Q on the front page!
> 
> MAD RACE BETWEEN TRAINS IS STAGED
> 
> SWITCH ENGINE'S SPEED ESCAPES FAST MAIL
> 
> A disastrous wreck was narrowly averted in the Burlington railroad yards when 
> a switch engine was backed upon the main westbound track directly in the path 
> of fast mail train No. 7. Railroad men say it was only by a miracle that a 
> collision was avoided.
> 
> The switch crew had been doing some work at the freight house and was to take 
> a car to the old yard. The engine was backed upon the main track directly in 
> the path of the mail train, which was rounding the curve at the coal shutes 
> at a speed for forty miles an hour.
> 
> Unaware of the approach of the mail train the engineer started backing up the 
> main track. A switchman ran out on the track and yelling a warning to him. 
> Reversing his engine and throwing open the throttle he started back for the 
> cross over. A mad race between the mail train and the switch engine was then 
> on. The switch engine crossed safely to the side track just as the mail 
> whizzed past.
>




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