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
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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.
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On 11/21 I was called for a work extra that took the new permanent bridge spans to the park.
Leo Phillipp
Richard,
I lived in Downers from 1946 to 1972. ........... an empty ore train that derailed at Forest Ave and involved 10 - 15 cars ( don't recall the date but would guess it to be late 1950s or very early 1960s), .......My guess is that the ore train derailment might have been the one you saw.
Bill Barber
Gravois Mills, MO
Fri Aug 14, 2015 9:25 am (PDT) . Posted by: