OOOPS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What do you think?

CMSTPP · March 14, 2006, 5:37pm

[The Good News

It was a normal day in Sharon Springs, KS when a Union Pacific crew boarded a loaded coal train to head on the long trek back to Salina.

The Bad news

Just a few miles into the trip a wheel bearing became over heated and melted off, letting the truck support drop down and grind on top the rail creating white hot molten metal to spew downward on the rail

The Good news

A very alert crew noticed a small amount of smoke about halfway back in the train and immediately stopped the train in compliance with the rules.

]The Bad news

The train just happened to stop with the hot wheel on top of a wooden bridge built with creosote ties and trusses…[xx(]

Ummm… What do you think?..[banghead]

James

tmcc_man · March 14, 2006, 5:54pm

[:O][:O][:O][:O][:O][:O][:O][:O][:O][:O][:O][:O][:O][:O][:O][:O][:O][:O][:O][:O][:O] I am speechless about that. At least the crew wasn’t hurt.

wctransfer · March 14, 2006, 7:28pm

Welcome to old news lol. Pretty cool pics.

Alec

trainboyH16-44 · March 14, 2006, 7:36pm

I saw a VERY small version of one of those pictures a while ago, and always wondered what happened…oh my!

CMSTPP · March 14, 2006, 8:14pm

Nasty little accident isn’t it. A friend got the pictures a while ago.

James

nssr9169 · March 15, 2006, 7:18pm

Nasty It’s wonderful…KALE LOVE FIRE1[}:)][}:)][}:)][}:)][}:)][}:)][oX)][oX)][swg][yeah]

PBenham · March 17, 2006, 3:52pm

I say this more than once, and I’ll say it here, D’oh![B)]! Now we know why wooden trestles don’t get painted! (see that thread)

Anonymous · March 17, 2006, 7:15pm

what can you say about something like that. just glad no one got hurt.

Anonymous · March 19, 2006, 2:11am

FIRE, FIRE, FIRE!

Anonymous · March 19, 2006, 2:14am

I’m using the second pic as my desktop background[swg]

CMSTPP · March 21, 2006, 9:28pm

Sounds good dingoix![:D]

James

signmasters24 · March 24, 2006, 2:12pm

Where’s FEMA when need them!

coborn35 · March 24, 2006, 3:27pm

What? Why would we need FEMA? Its a bridge…not a whole city…
Looks like it was a blessing the thing burned down.

Tim_Burton · March 28, 2006, 10:43am

I’d have moved the train, who had the brain block…

tree68 · March 28, 2006, 9:40pm

Methinks this is one of those situations where if they’d known, they would have, but by the time they walked a half mile back down the train, it was just too late. Hindsight is, by definition, usually 20-20.

coborn35 · March 29, 2006, 3:00pm

That makes no sense. Why would the engineer leave the cab??

Anonymous · April 25, 2006, 7:40pm

Well…

Anonymous · April 26, 2006, 6:12pm

who was selfish enough to do something like that?

coborn35 · April 26, 2006, 8:48pm

What do you mean?

csxengineer98 · April 27, 2006, 4:04am

this is funny in a sick twisted way…but it is also older then dirt now… these pics have made thier way around the internet atleast 50 times already…i have gottin them in my email inbox at least once evey 6 months for the past 2 years…and my mailing list is small… also…i do belive that the reason why this happend is from what i remember reading someplace…under UP opp rules… the train couldnt be moved…and well… you see what the end result was becouse it couldnt be moved under the rules
csx engineer