Railroaders place to shoot the shit.

Cy Valley · Upgraded Condition

Somewhere, Phones are Ringing

Snippy · Force Majeure

OMFG!!! It could have been Amtrack if it was tomorrow!

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No one was hurt good, are the fish intox from alcohol? get are officer friendly Conservastion Officers too help, forgot too busy passing out tickets for adults who let their children swim from shore while no tickets for boating parents whose kids swim off boats

Freddie Krueger · Unstable & Irrational

Got a report we rear ended another train this afternoon near Syracuse. All I heard is one broken arm so far. Derailment up at Port Newark. Second time this year for the young conductor. I think he was blinded by lunar lites and ran through a switch, then pulled his train back through it.

Cy Valley · Upgraded Condition

Freddie Krueger wrote:
Got a report we rear ended another train this afternoon near Syracuse. All I heard is one broken arm so far. Derailment up at Port Newark. Second time this year for the young conductor. I think he was blinded by lunar lites and ran through a switch, then pulled his train back through.
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-- Edited by Cy Valley on Thursday 7th of July 2011 07:57:58 PM

FMB · Board Modification Mediator

Snippy wrote:
OMFG!!! It could have been Amtrack if it was tomorrow!
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Boatboy65
No one was hurt good, are the fish intox from alcohol? get are officer friendly Conservastion Officers too help, forgot too busy passing out tickets for adults who let their children swim from shore while no tickets for boating parents whose kids swim off boats

Not with Cindy behind the throttle.... she's been trained... she can run anything.... tomorrow

Snippy · Force Majeure

......if she had to.

Cy Valley · Upgraded Condition

This is just like a Drainorders team:

Heat damage a cause in train crash?
Updated: Friday, 08 Jul 2011, 9:12 PM EDT
Published : Friday, 08 Jul 2011, 9:12 PM EDT

By: Jay Hermacinski
MORRISTOWN, Ind. (WISH) - While CSX officials investigate Wednesdays train derailment and subsequent bridge collapse in Shelby County, 24-Hour News 8 has been investigating a possible cause for the crash: a phenomenon called heat kinking.

Heat kinking occurs when a section of rail expands in hot weather and the rail stakes fail to hold it in place.

"On a very hot day, rail temperatures can get up to 130 degrees Farenheit, said Peter Ray, vice president of engineering at the Indiana Rail Road Co. Of course, that steel will want to grow.

Ray said heat kinking is not uncommon. That's why inspecting rail lines is a top priority for rail companies.

The Federal Railroad Administration requires companies to inspect their lines at least once a week, dependent upon the volume of traffic travelling along the rail. Ray said the inspections are done using vehicles that run down the lines.

Most problems are addressed mechanically.

"We have a machine that raises, aligns, cross-levels,and surfaces the track," Ray said.