Hi Everyone
When i was attended high school here in burlington in the early 70's there
was a strong thunderstorm come up that blow an empty flat car from the
construction site of esb the battery factory which is the last factory on the
industrial on top of the west burlington hill.once the car started moving it
went all the why down the industrail spur hop the mainline switch and rolled to
a stop going up hill towards the shops.At this point gravity took over and the
flat car rolled down the hill finally being stopped by the switch engine
downtown .
Bill Ewinger
sholding@sbcglobal.net wrote:
If the gray matter serves me right I think it was Christmas Eve 1988.
I was working the Ottumwa Div DS Job in Galesburg. Galesburg to P Jct with
branches. It was after the CTC at Burlington had been moved to Galesburg and
put on this desk. It was a cold (not sure on stormy) nite and I had 491 pull
thru Burlington to make a pickup at West Burlington. They had around 100 cars
and the crew bottled the air and went in to make the pickup. As they pulled out
I heard on the radio the brakeman ask the engineer where was the train . " You
don't think it rolled away do you?" just as the approach lit and the bell rung
for the approach. I had just lined the Burlington to Galesburg Way Freight out
of the yard and across at Wood Tower to head to Galesburg. I dumped the signal
on him and hollered for him to head for the hills as 491's train was coming
down the hill. The Time ran out on the signal just as the train got to it and I
had the crossover lined for the bridge but
because the train was running 50 to 60 mph on the 25 mph track it came unglued
and tore out the crossover, signal bridge and piled up right at the west end of
the Mississippi River Bridge. We called the Superintendent and said merry
Christmas we have a big derailment at Burlington. I still use the nice 1988
safety award gym bag I got for that mess.
SJH
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From: qutlx1@aol.com
To: cbq@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2007 9:27 AM
Subject: [CBQ] Runaway- more clues
Archie,
Your comment about the car spotted at an industry that rolls toward the main
is somewhat close to what I'm looking for in this use of the term runaway.
Now we have two clues; the situation generally involves a single or few cars
rolling freely,unattended and unintentionally and a lot of guys are involved.
I did enjoy the coal train runaway story as having worked to Burlington
always wondered about that hill.
Leo
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