I saw a broken rail ... I live in what once was a railroad retirement community. My father, grandfather, neighbors were all railroaders and after 1970 they ALL complained the railroads were REFUSING to maintain their rail beds and rails.
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Pretending for a second that this country isn't under attack by an enemy either foreign or domestic in nature, then the only other explanation for these constant derailments is that the railway companies aren't being held accountable to ensure the tracks are intact and free of problems. This is happening way too often.
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I couldn't stand it, I had to tell them there was no broken rail. Historian must be like that Orange Menace, because he had a family of railroaders, he knows a broken rail when he sees it. Except when he doesn't.
We have two split derails on our wye, I know at least two jobs have gone over each end and not flipped over. That pic looks flat and the rear truck didn't even clear the derail. Like, how did that happen? I thought the loco center of gravity made that hard to happen.
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That pic looks flat and the rear truck didn't even clear the derail. Like, how did that happen?
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Good eye. I missed it. This is a good mystery. Maybe Sluggo to the rescue for the real cause.
There isn't much evidence of the Big Boy cutting up the ballast either. STSB will go out on a limb here. Go big or go home:
That's the DPU on the rear of the train. Pro: EOT removed? knuckle closed, but it would be if Snippy was running it in the lead anyway. Con: no EOT, brake hose looks like it is in the keeper
The orange box is probably the event recorder.
The blue stringy stuff? Probably a measuring tape of some sort. Maybe disposable? Rope?
You can see where the "F" truck on the locomotive played in the ballast. Nothing else appears to be dirty.
It's possible they took slack, or the slack took itself out. Leading (trailing) truck gets off the end of the split derail.
Head end can't get it started, takes slack again, tonnage against the locomotive anchor in the ballast tiddley-winks the locomotive, sets it on its side, and busts the air.
It was easier to flip because the thing was listing heavily with one side of the truck in the ballast shoulder and the other sitting on the crossties.
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Great Northren also subscribed to the "long end running locomotives" with their GP7/GP9/GP20's orders in the late 50's.
Maybe better protection for the crew as they bust through snow drifts on the northern transcon.
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TW mentions the "Over and Outs". Always important when the FRA is in town. Its always been a challenge when you
work in a busy terminal. So much chatter/communications that you are lucky to get a word in without getting "stepped on".
Yardmasters need to get a waiver on "Over and Outs".
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FRA man climbed on the engine in Lost in Middle America and asked me how I knew I was really talking to the car inspector that gave us the air test. I hadn't properly identified myself and had not heard him identify himself. All I could say was that I had gotten many air tests from him, one about every other day, and I knew who I was talking to. Not good enough and I never heard anymore about it but still. That some 43 years ago and I still remember it, kind of irritated me and I had no good excuse, it was the early days of requiring radio identification, though.
Working at the bridge I got a couple surprise visits from the FRA. Wanted to go through the daily records to see if
somebody forgot to sign out and any exceeding the hours of service. I was embarrassed to see where I forgot to
sign out a couple times. No punishment as I was able to sign out...eventually.
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