Hard to believe I'm the one breaking this news. July 5th 20:30hrs a westbound "stringlined" 15 cars at the curve most of which was laying on sides on Main track 2.
So 2 tracks out of service and one to run all the trains. Doesn't appear to be a lot of torn-up track but the clean-up will go into Sunday. There are numerous videos
on YouTube if you want to look at this mess further. Of course there is the Virtual Railfan live at Horseshoe Curve if you want to look at that. TO has a couple threads
on the derailment. https://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?2,4823079
-- Edited by The Krink on Sunday 7th of July 2019 01:22:41 AM
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If they hadn't torn out one of the mainlines (or two or three), those center beam flats would have been fouling a main track and somebody could have been hurt or kilt!
Now there will be a new rule about the number of empty flats on the head end, and when you call the chief he'll tell you his name and that it's ok to go, and you'll hang up the phone like "what was the point of even making the rule?"
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On my road empty cars 80 feet or longer must not have more than 6200 tons behind them eastward or 7800 tons westward....Ideally they should be handled on the rear.
-- Edited by jonnycantdo on Monday 8th of July 2019 07:42:42 AM
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LAMCO doesn't need car placement rules like that. It defeats the highly precision model of Precision Scheduled Railroading. Just Wabash* the cars where they're supposed tu be and GTFO.
Make train handling rules so that you can blame the engineer.
* - 'Wabash the whole track' is a term of art that means, "Run the shit just like it is. Somebody else can switch them. We've got to get a quit."