Wow ! Somebody just got a big trainset in their backyard - all the cars derailed ! At 4:45 AM = ‘‘oh - dark - forty-five’’, too ! The photo with the article reminds me of the ending of the Silver Streak movie somehow, too.
Fortunately, no serious injuries, and apparently no damage to the houses. Wonder if the cause was iced-in flangeways at a grade crossing, or a broken rail kind of thing ?
Thanks for calling this to our attention and posting the link, KC.
Yes, thanks. According to the story, Ocean runs only five days a week (The overnight train normally runs the route five days a week, passing through New Brunswick with a stop in Moncton.) I just checked the schedule on VIA’s website, and it shows that the train is run six days a week, leaving both Halifax and Montréal daily except Tuesday (X2). Perhaps the writer looked at a schedule and thought “X2” meant the train did not leave two days a week?
Okay. Please forward your address. What’s for dinner? I love Italian food! I used to shovel snow, as a kid, in New York. Made mega-$$$, in those days. Now I live in an apartment complex and and park my truck ‘in back’. I try to keep a path clear to it, as I don’t drive the Mustang GT in the snow, but, at age 71, I go at it slowly. I do have a clunky old snow blower, and that is fun. Getting snow cleared, out here in Montana, is a problem. No one wants to work, especially the kids! Will the day come when no one will work, all being on government entitlement programs? Scary, methinks!!! Anyhoo, snow shoveling, in moderation, is good exercise.
Hays
Agreed [tup] - it can be a ‘total-body, aerobic, and weight-training’ exercise all together, with another good purpose or point to it ! I also think it ought to be an Olympic sport, rather than some of the others . . . Soon it’s time for me to go and get my daily dose, too . . . [Why no ‘emoticon’ for that ?!? ]
It really just depends on the force the train can exert on the snow. If the train has a greater force, the snow may move, but yes it does also depend on the amount of snow, and NO the train would not be able to get through if it was an unimaginatable amount of snow!
For one thing, you normally can only plow for so long before you stop - sometimes very suddenly. It’s easy enough to derail an engine or the plow, but coming to a dead stop with 50-100 freight cars behind you would cause quite a crash. Plus, even if you stop OK, you now have to back up 100 freight cars to take a run at the snow…pretty hard to push back 50-100 cars. Once you do, it will take a lot more track to get a full freight up to “ramming speed” than three engines and a plow would.