Reminder from Shepherd Tx.

For those of you with your January issue of Trains, go to page 11…
Just a reminder during the hectic days that always occur around the holidays…

Absolutely nothing, no job, no customer, no gift or party, no early quit is worth the danger of letting your guard down, cutting corners, or taking a risk.

Take a good look at the top photo, that’s what is left of a GP40; you can see the prime mover and part of the frame, and the radiator section and cooling fans, not much else to clue you in that this was once a locomotive.

Don’t assume the other guy did it right, not out here on the railroad, nor out there on the highway.
Read the Mudchicken’s logo….
We want all of you to show up on next year’s roster!

Ed

Haven’t got my Jan. Trains yet[:(].As soon as I do,I will check page 11 first.

I haven’t seen the picture, either, but I did see (many years ago) a locomotive that turned over entering a tunnel. Trucks and fuel tank went one way, cleaned the frame right off and piled up the sheet metal and prime mover outside the tunnel mouth. Gives a whole new meaning to “bare-table”.

Ed – that is a ‘good’ picture – and a very sobering reminder, too. As you say, read Mudchicken’s logo.

And everyone have a safe and happy holiday – even if you draw the short straw and have to work. Take care.

It’s pretty gruesome. But if it will save one life…

Reminds me of this: http://www.trainweb.org/screamingeagle/other/j_glenewinkel/C73-GP-1/C73-wreckloco.jpg

http://www.trainweb.org/screamingeagle/cotulla.html

Shame to see stuff like that, but its a constant problem in dark territory.