This is what happened today when we took the grandkids to the Depot.
Do not know who was at fault here for sure but this is what happens when those pesky derails are not thrown.
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Mike
Mike, thanks for the pictures. No 0-5-0 around when you need one.[:)]
Thanks Ken , My grandson was willing but said he was not strong enough!!
Thanks , Mike
Usually it is a nice thing when a product works as designed. But for one crew…
Jay
Yes it is a shame for them as they (the local guys here) are great to folks and our grandkids!!
Rare these days.
Mike
This little incident occurred about here in Las Cruces, NM (Lat./ long. coords. per the ACME Mapper 2.0 application):
N 32.31047 W 106.78813 - about opposite where W. Hadley Ave. comes in from the east and intersects N. Mesilla St., before it jogs around the north end of the little yard there, then westward ?
That derail is on the west rail at the northern end of the longest siding, next to what appears to be the main track (furthest east), just before the W. Hadley Ave. grade crossing and the turnout to rejoin the main track. There appears to be another derail about 60 ft. further north on the west rail of the track that curves in from the west, some of which shows in the lower 2 photos. Both of those are placed in a typical location to protect against unauthorized/ unattended cars from rolling out of the yard and through that grade crossing, and/ or onto the main line.
But here, from the ribbed-side covered hopper being further off the tracks, it appears that these 2 cars derailed when moving southwards - in other words, in the direction from off the main line into the siding. That’s not the direction normally protected against, unless there’s something vulnerable or hazardous, etc. on the siding. Unless it was a ‘double-ended’ or ‘2-way’ derail, it’s a little unusual that it would have functioned against cars moving in the ‘wrong’ direction. But maybe it was - looks like the cars went onto the ground on the proper side of the track anyway.
Unfortunately, looks like somebody has some 'splaining to do. But that’s better than loose cars on the main, and it’s unlikely that anyone was hurt - hopefully it was only a case of miscommunication, unfamiliarity with the territory, misunderstanding, etc.
Were you able to stay around long enough to watch the rerailing ? I see what looks like a pair of yellow rerailers under the middle of one car in one of those photos. What did the g
Thanks Paul , we did not see the incedent nor the rerail but they tried to locomotives with the re-railers and it was a no-go. They were waiting on a ground based crane and we had to leave with the boys (dang).
The museum would be fine if it was not run by the city !!! [:(!][:#]
Thanks , Mike
Always nice to have a friendly local crew.
Back in the early '70’s, the conductor on Georgia Railroad local 51 was very kind to a pesky, young me. “Jay Bird” Turner was his name. Since this was back in the full crew days he usually remained on the caboose as he walked with a limp from frost bite suffered during the Korean War. He allowed me to sit with him in the caboose while they worked Thomson. I even got to ride in the cupola on short shoves around our small town.
Couple this with walks to the tracks with my great grandfather until I was 7 years old(1969) and a friendly agent, Mr. Milford, in the still manned thru the late '70s Thomson depot and you have a railfan in the making. Having Forrest Beckum as a backyard neighbor also played a big role too.
The joys of small town living. How I wish my daughters had had the same opportunity.
Jay
Was he often credited in Trains as W. F. Beckum, Jr., or similar ? See list from 1960 to date below. If so - yes, that’s quite understandable - lucky you !
- Paul North.
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[snipped] Having Forrest Beckum as a backyard neighbor also played a big role too.
Was he often credited in Trains as W. F. Beckum, Jr., or similar ? See list from 1960 to date below. If so - yes, that’s quite understandable - lucky you !
- Paul North.
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Gravity Works! (and the rewards for shoving blind ought to include staying on site and helping fix the damage IMHO)
That was just the mandatory 30-day FRA derail test…
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I don’t want to see the 90 day test.
120 comes with fireworks…
As we speak I am dowloading pics and video of the re-rail. Turns out the crane they brought yesterday was only 100 tons and would not lift the cars. Today 200 ton.
I will post more !!
Mike
[(-D] - [sigh] - [tup]
Hey, look on the bright side! If this happened while you and they were there your grandchildren have a memory to last the rest of their lives! “Say, remember when Grandpa took us to see the trains and…” “Oh, yeah! Hee, hee, hee…”
Oh they will remember as we own a train shop and they have gone to the yard and depot every thursday since they were born. Two train brains. The older one (Gavin 5) had to tell the car guys that the locomotive in the yard was a GP30.
Mike
I’m surprised they didn’t just call Hulcher.