LIRR diesel derailed by bulldozer

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Not lately. May 21, 1955. Woodbury Road in Hicksville.

http://www.trainsarefun.com/lirr/lirrCliners/lirrCliners.htm

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No matter what they might have said in the story, that’s not a bulldozer. Dozers have caterpillar treads. That thing had rubber tires, probably some kind of front-end loader… and it would be VERY interesting to see what part of it caused that front-end damage to the C-liner.

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Thank You.

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https://books.google.com/books?id=8svyOXSaZkAC&pg=PA49&dq="wheel+bulldozers"&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj6gN2d_I3TAhUojFQKHWZQDssQ6AEIHDAA#v=onepage&q="wheel%20bulldozers"&f=true

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Wheel Loader/ Front End Loader

http://ritchiespecs.com/specification?https://www.deere.com/en_US/products/equipment/wheel_loaders/544k/544k_it4.pagetype=Construction+Equipment&category=Wheel+Loader&make=John+Deere&model=544&modelid=91186

in the newsworker’s warped little world, if it’s yellow equipment, it’s a buldozer just like any railcar becomes a boxcar.

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Pass a couple of Ritchie Bros. auction sites on my trips to Kansas. When the auction is near, there is a WHOLE LOT of various forms of construction equipment - big and small.

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Thank You.

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BNSF 4102 looks very similar after this week’s tangle with a John Deere 34Ton excavator on a lowboy trailer at Melrose, NM on the transcon. BNSF 5441 don’t look so great either.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSwZTaeXph4

http://www.newschannel10.com/story/35079123/train-crash-in-eastern-new-mexico

http://domino.bnsf.com/website/updates.nsf/updates-service-consumer/26CE8C149AE4890086257F280079EB62

https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/new-mexico/articles/2017-04-05/truck-freight-train-collide-at-eastern-new-mexico-crossing

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And even if the automobile runs into the side of the last car in a train the headlines read “Car Hit by Train”

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Same crap, different era (like 2 days ago) - BNSF Melrose NM on the Transcon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSwZTaeXph4

BNSF 4102 and 5441 are gonna be in the shops for a while. The 34 Ton John Deere Excavator and lowboy trailer are toast. Hope the conductor is discharged quickly and the truck driver becomes a permanent pedestrian.

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thanks for the posting. Enjoy seeing all the period details in addition to the railroad equipment. Thank goodness for the nose protecting the cab occupants. Some of the new design locomotives have little such protection.