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From: "Russ Strodtz" <borneo@19main.com>
Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2009 23:08:32 -0600
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Archie,

I was at the ICC investigation at Maiden Rock WI. Head on collision
at 59 mph with no brakes at all and only flat railroad. There was no
"adamant voicing", there was just no idea what happened. You got
two on the head end and two on the rear end but nowhere has any
idea why.  None of the crews even got fired over about one years
each.

It's a strange world.

Russ
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Archie" <kliner@mywdo.com>
To: <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, 03 February, 2009 22:50
Subject: Re: [SPAM]Re: [CBQ] Re: 1958 Wreck


Jonathan and Pete are both correct to blame the engineer according to the 
evidence gathered by the ICC investigation.  I have seen men who were never 
wrong and when questioned concerning it, were so adamant in voicing they 
were correct they would cause you to question your own convictions.  It 
appears that in this case, the engineer was wrong and this time didn't get 
away with it.  Archie
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Jpslhedgpeth@aol.com
  To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
  Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2009 9:56 PM
  Subject: [SPAM]Re: [CBQ] Re: 1958 Wreck



  Have you guys gone to the ICC website and read the details????  If you 
haven't you need to do so...

  Something which I refer to as the "intimidation factor" was involved 
here...If you want me to I'll explain it, but I want anyone who is going to 
participate in the discussion to read the official report and then we'll 
talk

  Pete

  -----Original Message-----
  From: Russ Strodtz <borneo@19main.com>
  To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
  Sent: Tue, 3 Feb 2009 9:20 pm
  Subject: Re: [CBQ] Re: 1958 Wreck

  That make no sense. You blame the Engineer. Why?
  Are you telling me that 5 miles from Semper the
  other crews were not reading? Why not? The are as
  just as responsible as the entire members of the
  crew. Where was the Fireman? Sleeping?????
  Conductor? Flagman?

  And, by the way, there have been other wrecks of
  similar issues at almost the same location on the
  C&S.

  You can do better.

  Russ (Only 42 years of experience)

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: "bigbearoak" <jonathanharris@earthlink.net>
  To: <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
  Sent: Tuesday, 03 February, 2009 19:27
  Subject: [CBQ] Re: 1958 Wreck

  Those have to be some of the most horrifying pictures of a modern
  train wreck I've seen. They're much worse than the ones in Grenard's
  "Colorado and Southern, a Personal Memory of the Standard Gauge" or
  Speas & Coel's "Goin' Railroading," both of which include photos the
  same wreck but where 700D has either fallen off the E7 or has been
  pulled off. "Goin' Railroading" - a wonderful and extensive oral
  h
  istory by senior C&S engineer Sam Speas - has a good account of the
  accident, which killed three veteran engine men (heart wrenching too,
  since all 3 were longtime colleagues and close personal friends of
  Speas) as well as injuring 20 passengers. The two engineers involved
  had 36 years experience apiece. Fault apparently lay with Fred Tingle,
  engineer of the northbound freight (Train No. 77), who failed to
  follow orders to take the siding at Semper, 5 miles south of
  Broomfield, in order to wait for southbound Train No. 30, the
  passenger run from Cheyenne; roaring past Semper, No. 77 then overshot
  the Broomfield siding as well. The passenger train was just pulling
  out of Broomfield station when the freight rounded the curve just to
  the south. By the time the crew of 30 saw it bearing down, they had no
  time to do more than set their brakes before the F7 slammed into them,
  killing both engineer Frank Johnson and fireman Joe Loughry. The
  fireman on Train 77, Harry Anderson, saw the passenger train looming
  up ahead just in time to get back into the engine room, but engineer
  Tingle apparently chose to run the 700D to his death.

  For those more interested in machinery than people, the wreck is
  historically significant in contributing to the C&S's motive power
  shortage of 1958, which kept some of their last steam engines in
  service a few months longer than planned. For me, no amount of extra
  railfan photos can balance that carnage.

  Jonathan

  --- In CBQ@yahoogroups.com, Jpslhedgpeth@... wrote:
  >
  > Colorado
  and Southern...Broomfield, CO....9/22/58
  >
  > Go to the ICC website for particulars
  >
  > Pete
  >
  >
  > -----Original Message-----
  > From: Rick Keil <rkeil6721@...>
  > To: cbq@yahoogroups.com
  > Sent: Sun, 1 Feb 2009 4:54 pm
  > Subject: [CBQ] 1958 Wreck
  >
  >
  >
  >
  > irst, my apologies, this should have gone to this group, not the
  BRHS list.
  > he photos are in the CBQ Yahoo group photos section.
  >
  > ll, Just uploaded two photos from a wreck in 1958 in Colorado. It
  involved some
  > units (C&S I believe) and a passenger train, E units. I got these
  from a
  > riend who got them from his uncle, no other details provided other
  than he
  > appened to be close when it occurred. Rick KeilWichita, KS
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