Well, I guess we modelers aren’t the only ones who run trains off the end of the spur! [:I]
This wooden coach is in the small Dardenelle & Russellville RR yard. It’s next to the Arkansas River, under the highway bridge south of Russellville, Arkansas.
Thats pretty cool I like that. Accidents do happen in the real world. Dave
At the eastern edge of Amarillo, just north of (and parallel to) I-20, is a car storage track - remnant of a now-abandoned mainline. Every time I passed, it had a few more cars on it. Then, sometime in 2003, somebody overdid it. The end car on the spur had been pushed right over the mound of gravel that served as a bumper, and was sitting there high-centered with all eight wheels in the air!
The next time I passed, a week or so later, there were a good ten carlengths between the last car on the spur and that gravel pile - a distance that didn’t change much until I stopped making that run in 2004.
I can’t help wondering what being shoved over a pile of gravel did to that car’s brake gear.
Chuck (modeling Central Japan in September, 1964 - with one gravel-covered runaway-preventer track)
When did the mishap occur, 1908? Is this coach going to be restored?
http://crcyc.railfan.net/crrs/box/cr218541a.jpg
In this one the switching crew ran a Conrail boxcar up over a mound of dirt at the Cadillac plant in Detroit Michigan in 1985.
I think it must have happened in the last two years. I don’t recall the coach or the problem on my last visit. I hope that precious artifact will be restored one day.
Nice Shot! …but could you please post smaller file sizes? Even on my broadband DSL it took almost a minute to load. Thanks.[:)]