Ever run laps on the test track. It's ok to tell now.
The statute of limitations has run out, nobody can
prosecute you anymore.
--- William Ufffam <ufffam@cox.net> wrote:
> Contact with the overhead wire caused the interior
> headliner to catch fire
> literally burning out the vehicle. New meaning to
> smoked glass windows.
> Cars were totalled. We hand pushed them the length
> of the train (6 or 7
> cars) to get to the ramp then "bombs away" as there
> were no brakes or power
> steering to contend with it was kind of an E ticket
> ride down the ramp.
> Local high school got the cars for auto shop use.
>
> Our loading ramp was a portable powered frame with a
> ramp that raised and
> lowered. You lined it up with the rail cars on the
> siding and dropped panels
> across the gap. Once in a while they would bounce
> and kick out as a string
> of cars went over them and you dropped a wheel into
> the opening--scary on
> deck three!
>
> Because of a threatened strike at Chrysler one
> weekend we had to empty the
> yard of all vehicles so they would not be trapped by
> strikers. The RR crew
> got excited and shoved one car too many on a siding
> which was interesting as
> it followed previous grooves in the pavement so it
> pulled back
> easily--fortunately our loading ramp was aligned
> with another track. When
> all was done there was one automobile with a frozen
> engine sitting in acres
> of paved and gravelled storage lots. Originally the
> plant was built as a
> tank plant so it had a big test track and fields
> that we used for storage.
>
> Bill Uffelman
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ralph W. Brown, Jr." <cbq682@grics.net>
> To: <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Monday, April 26, 2004 10:53 PM
> Subject: Re: [CBQ] Auto Rack car
>
>
> > Bill,
> >
> > What do you mean by "burned out"? These cars
> didn't actually catch on
> fire, did they? How severe was the damage?
> >
> > R.W. Brown, Jr.
> > Galesburg, IL
> > While in college after Vietnam I loaded/unloaded
> Chrysler cars at the
> Newark
> > DE plant (my father in law ran the place). Penn
> Central of course had
> > clearance issues and at least one car came in
> burned out as it had hit
> the
> > overhead wire. GM plant was a few miles away and
> they used different tie
> > down hook style so it was a pain to change
> everything out when we got GM
> > racks instead of Chrysler.
> >
> > Lack of side protection panels meant lots of
> thrown rock and graffiti
> > damage--tough neighborhoods enroute to the
> plant!
> >
> > Bill Uffelman
>
>
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