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Re: [BRHSlist] Suburban Derailment

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Subject: Re: [BRHSlist] Suburban Derailment
From: Ed Pavlovic <epav1@w...>
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 21:56:57 -0600
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Reply-to: epav1@w...
Leo,
Happened to see this on another list, might be the answer to your question...


> In the Sunday Beacon news there was a photo of 3 flatcars that rolled
> from the Eola yard to the Roundhouse. Short caption states that the
> incident happened around 5 pm Sat. One car left the tracks and stopped
> 30 ft from the Comfort Suites indoor pool. No injuries reported.
> Luckily Metra wasn't at the station when it happened.
>
qutlx1@a... wrote:

> Ok,they're keeping this one pretty quiet.It appears to this interested and 
> experienced observer that we had double decks on the ground at the Aurora 
> Transportation Center over the weekend.All those Caterpillar tread marks 
> didn't get in the back lot driveway from plowing the 2 inches of snow.There's 
> also a bunch of obvious blocking marks.Did we forget to set the air pulling 
> into town or did someone let a setover bleed off in the yard and gravity 
> rolled it to the end of track?
>
>


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