You have to go back to Black and white days in time to see derailment pick-up equipment owned by the railroad.
Nearly every railroad had a "Big Hook" or two dispatched to derailments. Now it contracted out. Never see a
"Big Hook" today. Must have scrapped them.
FMB said
9:44 PM, 12/10/24
I'd always heard that the carmen who worked the hook train got paid overtime from the time they left their terminal until they arrived back.
Things that can happen during MIR
Traffic chaos caused by 30K pounds of melted chocolate on Bay Area highway...
Darned MIR, eh.
Bad mess, Woa !
Coulda shoulda shipped by rail mebbe.
Or serviced the brakes ?
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/derailed-train-manitoba-highway-16-1.7405293
Nearly every railroad had a "Big Hook" or two dispatched to derailments. Now it contracted out. Never see a
"Big Hook" today. Must have scrapped them.
I'd always heard that the carmen who worked the hook train got paid overtime from the time they left their terminal until they arrived back.