When a train locomotive does a burnout, things get hot. When 2 locs do it together...

[BigBlockMopar]

It shows...!
I think someone got his @ss chewed over real good by this 'oopsie'...

[68scott385]

rough road ahead...hold on to your wine glasses

[SuperBuickGuy]

jobs are temporary, hooning stories are forever

[Barry Donovan]

I was just drilling some cheap flat stock from home depot.

home depot won the bits.

what is going on there.

[BigBlockMopar]

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.

[DanStokes]

Um, Boss - No, Really - - No, it won't happen again. Transferred to the Track Crew? Um, OK........

Dan

[SuperBuickGuy]

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.

[blevinsracing]

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

[TheSilverBuick]

That's a heck of a burn out. Thunk thunk thunk.

[Cyclone03]

how hard are those wheels? R100?

[Deaf Bob]

how hard are those wheels? R100?

Rails ARE pretty hard... Wheels have to be harder to survive..
I'm curious what the wheels looked like and how they got the engines out of those ruts!

[SuperBuickGuy]

Rails ARE pretty hard... Wheels have to be harder to survive..
I'm curious what the wheels looked like and how they got the engines out of those ruts!

they released the brakes and rolled out showering the fans with sparks

[Deaf Bob]

they released the brakes and rolled out showering the fans with sparks

Wonder if they rocked out??

[phitter67]

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.

[Deaf Bob]

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!