They are trying to clean up a derailment.
Maybe they are not doing it right.
ROAR
The next question: who gets to tell the boss? Personaly I think the guy in the grey t-shirt wasn’t holding his tongue right.
Tim
I guess I’m too slow because you beat me to the post. I don’t think they did it right either.
LION wonders why tow cable did not break. And if it would break it would coil about like a mad snake on steroids and cut those workers standing on the track in half.
ROAR
Object lesson in ‘string lining’ as a derailment cause.
Why were they attempting to pull it up the fill? Where were they going to go with it anyway? They must have had a crane to remove the trucks, but where was the crane? Did they really expect the locomotive to slide nicely up the hill of soft dirt?
I could be wrong, but it seems to me the cable forces the lead locomotive to slip sideways at first, and then it topples. Could it be that it forced the gauge to open first, or that the rail flopped over on its side?
Crandell
I see openings for a new mechanical supervisor (wreckmaster) and/or a superintendent.
(I cringed with the lack of proper safety precautions taken)
They’re only Brazilians - so safety is a minimal concern [}:)]
How many is a Brazilian?
Well, ain’t that a “whodathunkit?!?!?”
A ‘B’ more than a razilian.
Is this video of a government owned and operated railroad?
You know, if they were using a crane there would be a manual with charts in a pocket by the operator’s seat. It would show how much weight could be lifted at each boom angel and length. And the operator could say “Hey Mano, No can do.” And that would have been that.
Well, they are wearing hard hats![:P]
Hold my beer and watch this?
I didn’t know you were a redneck too…
[(-D]
By the time a railroad crane gets on that scene - the manuals and charts are long, long gone. Contractors crane may have them.
It looks like it was working fine until the engineer opened the throttle a couple more notches. At first I could not understand if that obvious line was the pull cable because it seems too light and loose. Apparently that is just an electrical cable that is lying there alongside the locomotive they are pulling. The actual pull cable hardly shows, and it is buried in the ground for the 20-30 feet approaching the locomotive they are pulling.
When the pull force gets high enough, you can see the nearest pulling locomotive suddenly crab sideways off the track. It appears as though it climbed the rail rather than tipping the rail over. You can almost see it jump up enough for its flanges to hop over the rail.
I wonder if just the one unit tipped over, or if the next one went over as well. That looks like meter gage.
They should have seen that coming, but plenty can go wrong in picking up a wreck.