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Subject: | [CBQ] Re: 1910 near miss |
From: | "Mitch" <soocarman79@yahoo.com> |
Date: | Fri, 24 May 2013 11:07:32 -0000 |
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What a great article. What drama, in my mind I can see this playing out. The stuff stories and legends are made out of. Mitch --- In CBQ@yahoogroups.com, dhartman@... wrote: > > I happened upon the following article in the January 12, 1910, Aurora Beacon. > What is also interesting is that it was only one of three large articles on > the Q on the front page! > > MAD RACE BETWEEN TRAINS IS STAGED > > SWITCH ENGINE'S SPEED ESCAPES FAST MAIL > > A disastrous wreck was narrowly averted in the Burlington railroad yards when > a switch engine was backed upon the main westbound track directly in the path > of fast mail train No. 7. Railroad men say it was only by a miracle that a > collision was avoided. > > The switch crew had been doing some work at the freight house and was to take > a car to the old yard. The engine was backed upon the main track directly in > the path of the mail train, which was rounding the curve at the coal shutes > at a speed for forty miles an hour. > > Unaware of the approach of the mail train the engineer started backing up the > main track. A switchman ran out on the track and yelling a warning to him. > Reversing his engine and throwing open the throttle he started back for the > cross over. A mad race between the mail train and the switch engine was then > on. The switch engine crossed safely to the side track just as the mail > whizzed past. > ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CBQ/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CBQ/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: CBQ-digest@yahoogroups.com CBQ-fullfeatured@yahoogroups.com <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: CBQ-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ |
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