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.
.
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) .
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