Leo
I know what you mean. I often carry my blue gym bag I got for a 1988 safety
award for rolling abut 100 cars down the West Burlington Hill on Xmas
Eve(although the cobwebs may have obscured the date) 492 was picking up at
West BN with the air bottled and on returning to the train I heard the
brakeman say to the engineer "Where is our train?? You don't think it
rolled away do you???
about that time it hit the approach bell on the CTC(Unlike most Dispatchers
I monitor the radios) I reached over and dumpped the signal on the
wayfreight who was lined out of the yard and then yelled at him to head for
the hills. If it had not been a holiday eve and no one out on the streets
we would have hit some one as the train was running faster then the approach
circuts for the lights and gates and TOO fast to make the kink at South St
and roll across the bridge. They piled up right at the K-Line Switch
Biggest problem with putting a railroad to bed is wakeing every one up and
getting it running again
sjh
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From: <qutlx1@a...>
To: <brhslist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, January 11, 2002 9:39 PM
Subject: [BRHSlist] Epidemic
> I've been kind of out of touch with the list due to holidays and a rash of
> derailments.
> I know the RR's have been basically closing down for Christmas but believe
me
> they sure had enough wrecks between 12/21 and 1/5 to keep us car owners
busy
> with D/v's and dispos to shops.
> The wreck about one mile from Rochester,NY on CSXT brought back a whole
> bunch of memories. It happened just before Christmas. Seems a local with
36
> cars stopped to switch Eastman Kodak. After cutting off their train the
crew
> was going into the plant engine lite and then plannning on coming back to
> their train to grab 2 loads of acetone to spot in the plant. But before
they
> could even get into the plant their train rolled down upon them and shoved
> them down a grade until all 36 cars(two 20,000 gallon loads of acetone and
34
> cars of coal along with two GP-40s derailed on a curve). A large fire
which
> destroyed some homes and boat yard ensued.
> Yes the two tank cars were UTLX marked. They were destroyed, bought at
site
> and cut up.
> After reading 2 reports of the incident that is still under investigation
I
> suspect that the infamous "bottled the air manuever is involved".
> Leo
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