I didn’t know the New Haven had GG1s! That is a GG1 in the photo isn’t it?
Eh?
The bridge that the photographer is standing on is the same one involved in the Malbone Street Wreck.
Go to CSX sucks.com and you will see a switcher that did it.
From my foggy recollection of reports, the GG1 in DC was PRR power for New Haven through train. There was a brake failure where some of the rear cars were deactivated either because of non matching parts or human error. When the engineer tried to stop approaching Union Station he was unable to generate enough braking to stop and ran the bumpers. Think it was the night before Trumans’ inaugeration but there are full articles out there somewhere if one could find the link. J.R.
To refresh your recollection: the New Haven through cars were tacked on to a PRR train to WAS. Apparently these cars were behind the engine. An air hose was not adjusted correctly and the line cock was closed instead of open. Different equipment puts the handle in different positions for similar functions? LION recalls that a loop of hose pulled the cock closed en-route.
It is an interesting place to park a GG-1
ROAR
Close, it was a few days before Ike’s inauguration in 1953.
http://www.dcnrhs.org/learn/washington-d-c-railroad-history/wreck-of-the-federal-express
Jeff
Yup. It’s also Washington, DC. (New Haven never ran south or west of Noo Yawk.)
What it isn’t is evidence of a picked switch. The GG1 smashed the track bumper and punched through a wall before falling into the basement.
Chuck (Native Noo Yawka modeling Central Japan in September, 1964)
It does look like one, doesn’t it? I don’t actually know for sure if it was a New Haven locomotive or not, but the locomotive that crashed was a replacement loco that was put on the Boston to DC train in the city of New Haven. It was a special train running to DC for the inauguration of President Eisenhower.
The crash actually occurred in Union Station, in DC. The full story can be found here: http://www.wired.com/thisdayintech/2010/01/0114train-crash-dc-union-station/
See my previous post.
Never mind. A weak attempt at humor slain by the rivet counters. [:D]
Although, since we’re letting facts get in the way, the New Haven ran to Maybrook, New York (about 30 miles west of NY) via the Poughkeepsie High Bridge, Maybrook was the NH’s primary interface with the NYC.
Let’s shut off this fountain of misinformation:
SEVERAL TIMES has that happened to me. I did it on purpose when I was playing with my Lionel set when I was young. On my N scale layout, that would happen with a turnout that was out of gauge, and I didn’t realize it untill it was installed. Thankfully, it was still early in the track laying stage, so I didn’t have to tear anything out.
Which fountain were you referring to? The one which already had two links to the correct information and my admission that it was a feeble attempt at humor, a full half an hour before you decided to put your [2c] in?
We had one of those dang things happen at last night’s operating session…[|(][:-^]
Imagine 2 trains going in opposite directions…on the SAME track…and all at the farthest back corner of the layout…[B)][D)]…and why?
Because one of the trains went through a turnout I thought was turned to make the passenger train take to the siding…but, oh no…it went through…[D)][B)][*-)]