Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2013 6:04
AM
Subject: Re: [CBQ] Motor Car
Collision
After some deep thought and pondering ( a difficult
task for me on occasion) I finally found the answer to one of my questions on
a gas-electric and truck collision on the US 81 grade crossing south of McCool
Junction, NE. On Memorial Day 1947train 166, the three-days-a-week mixed from
Clay Center to Benedict NE, collided with aq truck loaded with 450 bushels of
shelled corn. Motor car #9734 was pulling 5 boxcars and a waycar. On
impact the 9734 overturned and caught fire. Ray Dillinger, the engineer, dazed
and with various injuries, managed to escape the burning motor by escaping
throuhg a roof hatch. The two occupants of the truck were killed instantly.
This is from Al Holck's book "The Hub of Burlington Lines West page 299. In
the same book on page 198 is an account of a head on collision on Sept 1941 of
gas-electric #? pulling train 17 collided with locomotive #2809. All crews
escaped but one passenger was killed. The gas -electric was totaled.
Noel