This was on Cincy news website tonight. This happened just a few miles from my house. From what I have heard is that everyone is OK. So that’s the main thing about it all. I read also on one of the other station websites that the lady that owned the trailer still had some of her belongings in there.
http://www.wcpo.com/news/2005/local/12/05/train.html
Brian (KY)
Good, we don’t need more mobile homes anyways.
(1) If I were NS, I might not want a mobile home in my backyard either[:D]
(2) On a more serious note, IF the double wide shell did not fall apart and get stuck on the track, the double wide trucker and/or the county road agency are in some deep doo-doo over the KYPUC permit process and also the road approach grades not meeting the AASHTO/AREMA minimumum suggested design spec. If that is the case, NS bares its fangs with very justifiable cause, going after the road design/maintenance bozos who humped the crossing. (Somehow, the New York Times/ Bodanich is going to find fault with NS.)
Yikes, I hear Vaughn Monroe singing that song again.
It’s been 49 years and I still can’t get it out of my head.
Gee… that’s one the tornado missed !!
trailer for sale or rent [:-^]
stay safe
joe
Interesting, but not nearly as spectacular as the case of the Extra outside of St. Louis back in the 1880’s that one night plowed into a house that was being moved. In that instance they hadn’t even bothered to get the people or the furnishings out of the house. The newspaper reports of the day indicated there were dazed people in their night clothes wandering around trackside after the train reduced their home to kindling.
It’s too bad, it was so close to being home…musta been in a rush, eh?
unless it was YOUR home…[}:)]
The poor lady, she lost her house for Christsakes!
Another idiot truckdriver strikes again!
“Uh what are these flashing lights for…D’oh!”
interesting side note… the CEFX loco numbered 7099 in BN colors that was part of the consist of that train is also featured in a photo on page 12 of the Jan 2006 trains magazine.
Not much left of that double-wide! Good pictures. It looks like the train hit the mobile home dead-center with some speed. I can only imagine the look on the faces of the train crew when they saw a mobile home stuck on the tracks.
CC
So, who remembers when Amtrak’s San Diegan hit a house? [:D]
I do trainman2244 - Guy spends 2 months preparing a house for a move, goes out and has a few beers before the move, hires a security guard to check the crossings, checks the RR timetable, forgets about the fact that his license is suspended, has two buddies on the roof to move overhead wires, gets the house out across the tracks, his security guard is up ahead at the next crossing, unscheduled Amtrak comes around the bend, house reduced to matchsticks, two buddies get away safely. The 1880 version in St. Louis was pretty much the same thing.
This happened a number of years ago near Seattle.The contractor checked with BNSF about train schedules and consulted an Amtrak timetable.The house was moving across the tracks and was hit by an Amtrak football special.
Having lived in one, watch what ya say. Affordable housing is better than NO housing. Plus my possie can give ya a whoopin if I tell em what ya said.
Adrianspeeder
I can see something like this…
" What the hell is that? Oh, you gotta be $%##ing me…"
Or maybe something like this for the “destructive” type
“WOOHOO!” [:p]
It’s a good thig that didn’t happen on Christmas eve.There would have been reindeer and a sleigh on the roof and a little fat man in a red and white suit inside.Now that would have been a real tragedy!
MERRYCHRISTMAS!
" Hey Bill, would it be pointless for me to blow fo the crossing…?"[:-^]
I have a story about this in one of my books. Did they have a permit to actually do the move? Maybe it was an unscheduled visit. Oh yeah, the story, there were actually people in the house sleeping when it was being transported, and they woke up with half the house gone. It was hit by a steamer, I believe a 484.