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Re: [CBQ] Close Calls 2

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Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2014 19:19:32 -0500 (CDT)
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I'm still laughing, Leo. (it sounded vaguely familiar). I'm beginning to think 
you were a black cat :) Looking forward to close call #3. Doug (ps: I should've 
guessed Shoe was involved
 when so many lap backs were there)

----- Original Message -----
From: Leo <qutlx1@aol.com>
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Sent: Thu, 24 Apr 2014 18:33:23 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: [CBQ] Close Calls 2

Based on the feed back from close calls 1. I'll give it another go. If I've 
told this one before I apologize.

This true story,like close calls 1 is a BN story. But almost all the players 
are former Q guys and nothing at this point(mid 70s) has changed from a 
cultural standpoint. That came later about 1980-81 in a big way.

I'm braking in Lew's turn in the C&I pool. He's off on vacation or layed off a 
trip. So double EE catches the turn off the Condr's extra list. Were called for 
a 2nd or 3rd/185 out of Cicero on duty at 3:15PM. The Q would mostly have 
identified this as a X north. The trick is to get us out of the yard right 
ahead of the dinky parade. Everyone managed to get that accomplished and we 
plod along with 80-90 mty lumber cars and maybe two or three loads. As usual 
we're under powered but can make reasonable speed, as long as there aren't any 
hills. Did I mention this is the C&I pool ?!

So we are going up Waterman hill (westbound of course) at maybe 10-15 mph. It's 
a cold,misty,damp November/early December night. Not quite cold enough to snow 
but still miserable. Right at the top of the hill with the curve on my side 
double EE asks you got any sparks on your side ? I flip open the window and 
gaze really hard, nothing but black ahead of me. Nope, nothing on this side. 
Double EE grabs the radio handset and say "stop the train" ( is this starting 
to sound familiar ?)

Once stopped we peer out the back door and once again the ties shows cut marks. 
So we walk up and just about 12-15 ahead of the w/c is this mty 40' box car 
with a trailing pair of wheels off.
They are off to the North side and outside the North rail so that's how double 
EE was somehow able to see the sparks.

Here's where the story gets a bit detailed and long. Double EE decides were 
going to retail this puppy ourselves. I mean how hard can it be to put one pr 
of wheels on an mty 40 footer back on the rails ?

He advises the DS of the situation and the battle plan. So we make a cut and 
the head end goes to Shabbona siding and the engines come back to pull the car 
on. One minor problem. There are no frogs on the Waycar or the engines. We try 
gathering up various bits and pieces of lumber,ties,rocks,etc to give the 
wheels a path the get back on the rail head to no avail. By the way it's now 
raining. 

So there's a train behind us(85) and somebody else sitting at Steward 
eastbound. The call goes out to check and see if you have any frogs. The 
eastbounder at Steward (Shoe) has some on one of his units. So our power goes 
back to Shabbona siding and Shoe comes to our assistance. 

The frogs are lugged to site. Oh sXxxx what our we going to spike these frogs 
to the ties with?
The hunt is on and spikes are retrieved from the ROW. So we set the frogs and 
spike them down with the standard 3 lb hammer on every w/c and engine. Needless 
to say the wheels just kick our frogs out of the way. We have no blocking to 
lead the wheels up to the frog so when they get there it's a big verticals 
lift, not to mention we're trying to climb up 136 or 151 lb rail. This isn't a 
yard derailment.

Ok,it's time to say uncle and call the Eola wheel/ rip truck. They take a 
couple hours to get to site. They had to get the Carmen out of bed and then to 
the truck at Eola. In about 15 " minutes the car is rerailed.

So the C&I has been tied up for about 4 hours, there are 6 trains holding.

Lesson learned call the wheel truck first......

By the way road crews didn't get paid extra(arbitraries) like yard jobs for 
rerailing. On the other hand I do believe a number of,100 mile lap backs got 
filed from the incident

Leo






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