Story goes there were 3 locomotives coupled together. The crew parked the train for 4 hours. They "tied down" the forward locomotive. But somehow the #2 and #3 locomotives were apparently still in gear, and in 4 hours this is what happened to the rails.
Personally I wonder how as a traindriver you could 'miss' the little fact the other 2 locomotives are still humming and grunting away joyfully when you just stopped the train and stepped out of your locomotive. Either the guy(s) were all deaf or drunk, or some kind of short happened later on which made the other 2 locos want to drive off.
Story goes there were 3 locomotives coupled together. The crew parked the train for 4 hours. They "tied down" the forward locomotive. But somehow the #2 and #3 locomotives were apparently still in gear, and in 4 hours this is what happened to the rails.
Personally I wonder how as a traindriver you could 'miss' the little fact the other 2 locomotives are still humming and grunting away joyfully when you just stopped the train and stepped out of your locomotive. Either the guy(s) were all deaf or drunk, or some kind of short happened later on which made the other 2 locos want to drive off.
one of my brother-in-laws works for a diesel-electric engine company.... they just got a locomotive back - it was brand new - apparently the engineer left the brakes on on one of the four engines all the way from the company (Idaho) to Kansas city.... I wonder why you wouldn't notice the sparks flying, but they didn't until it got to the yard.
Last edited by SuperBuickGuy; September 2, 2013, 06:51 PM.
Was this someone not noticing or just not caring thinking it wouldn't hurt anything? I work for a company that does rail gear inspections on semis through light trucks........ just last Friday a guy brought a pickup in with the railgear wheels chewed completely up. He said, o its been making terrible noise and shaking for weeks but it still ran 40mph ok. LOL
Chris
Yeah rails ARE hard. I've got about a foot long piece I use for an anvil. Haven't dented it in over twenty years.
As do I... Hammered on a hardened piece... Did not even dent he rail.. Shattered the piece.. Have a chisel I used a framing hammer on, the chisel is chewed... Hit the rail.. Knocked the teeth flat on my fav framing hammer!
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