Talk about a pile up.
If my memory serves me, this looks like the derailment on BN in about 1978 or 1979 which collapsed the bridge over the IHB in La Grange. Suburban trains ran on the east and west sides of the site during the clean-up with passengers bussed around the derailment site.
I know that this picture and the story have been on this forum a time or two before, but the search function can’t locate them for me. So I’ll quote myself from the tour guidebook I used to use.
On August 27, 1977, a defective freight car caused an eastbound BN freight to derail, blocking all three tracks. Amtrak’s westbound San Francisco Zephyr was too close to avoid running into the wreckage, and was consequently derailed as well (there were numerous injuries, some serious, but no deaths). The biggest pileup was right on the IHB bridge–naturally the bridge collapsed, blocking the IHB for a time as well.
I remember going to LaGrange soon after the wreck, and seeing marked-up ties west of LaGrange Road (and the length of the station platform, at leas
Gotta love inertia…
See?
I told you putting pennies on the rail was not a cool idea, but nooooo…
Thusly?
Yup…Exactly.
Isn’t there a Simpsons episode where Bart puts a coin on some recreational track and derails some man-sized toy train with a bunch of people in it? I don’t know if any video clips of that would be on Youtube or anything.