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Leo - In the pile-up at the IHB bridge, "Breathless" Carl Estes was the engineer on #82; probably the only C&I Pool engineer who ran the speed limit; L. "Jeff" King, VP or Supt. couldn't believe he was only doing 45 MPH; cause was a shifted load in a box car (the other 16 engineers in the pool were glad Carl was at the "helm"!). The engineer on Amtrak #5 was Boyd Whitt and Clyde Hughes was the fireman. The ore jenny derailment at DG was on the west depot track switch off main #3, just west of Forest Ave. and the year was 1961; cause was an unlatched discharge door that caught the closure rail/frog of stated switch. With reference to your fine wrecker article in the latest Zephyr, Bob Flynn was the Road Master, not the Road Foreman. Bob Campbell ---In CBQ@yahoogroups.com, <qutlx1@...> wrote : Bill and group, The IHB bridge disaster was 8/27/77. My notes show #82 had a 40 foot box car derail at La Grange road and bounce along until the Harbor bridges when all (you know what broke lose). It so happened that Amtrak # 5 happened along at the same time and went into the air space and down onto the Harbor. As I recall Clyde Hughes was the hogger ,on #5 and was literally swimming in diesel fuel when they pulled him out. Clyde died a few years back. Used to bump into him at the grocery store. . On 11/21 I was called for a work extra that took the new permanent bridge spans to the park. Leo Phillipp On Aug 15, 2015, at 10:24 AM, William Barber clipperw@... [CBQ] <CBQ@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
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