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This is especially bad with loads. Empties "rattle" more. From: Karl Rethwisch <qrailroadman@yahoo.com> To: "CBQ@yahoogroups.com" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Thursday, February 2, 2012 10:54 AM Subject: [CBQ] Re: 1954 on duty fatality at Eola In the daze of the "Congo", Congress Park Tabulated Wayfreight, I was a "ground man" during our feverish switching out of "West cars" at the Park. The ground was blanketed with about a 4" covering of snow but, as I remember, it wasn't real cold. As we did our work we still had a bit of afternoon winter light so it was easy to SEE the cars rolling down the tracks toward you. While I waited for the next car to come to me I noticed two things. One, it was a flat. Two, though I could SEE the flat commin' I HEARD NOTHING !!!! The slow moving car, as well as the snow, combined to COMPLETELY silence the car's approach !!! That incident has stayed with me to this day
! It PROVED to me that rolling freight cars can be both totally silent AND deadly should one's
attention be momentarilly directed away from the task at hand. Awareness of your surroundings is paramount to survival both as an employee as well as a "casual" observer !! Karl __._,_.___
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