BRF: Would be great if you will get some photos of any effort to remove the pickup truck from the damaged {washed out}, tracks on the Saluda Grade and if and how they make the repair to the ROW…
What kind of truck?
Adrianspeeder
F…O…R…D: Found On Railroad Dead. {Just kidding}…a little humor.
…Do you want some pic’s of it Adrian…?
I wasn’t the one that took those pictures and I’m not exactly sure where it was on the line or how easy it is to get too. Below Melrose there is next to no access to the line without starting at Melrose and walking down the tracks and no where to stop on 176 without crossing a river and going up some some real steep terrain. There’s a lot of wild boar up there too.
They probably got the truck out not long after they got to it (you can see a Sheriff’s Deputy in one of the pictures), not positive on that either. I’ll see if I can’t get to it and see what the progress is on the washout. We had two inches of rain on Tuesday and then another five inches yesterday, so I can’t imagine much has been done.
Okay, the pictures SHOULD be working this time. These are the same that I had posted on the other thread but everyone was getting those evil red x’s for.
Wacky weather… 7 inches or rain in the Carolina’s in two days & there has only been two to three inches of rain in the Chicago area since April.
You can thank what was Tropical Storm Cindy for that last five inches. And now we’ve got Dennis to look forward to…
BRF,those “evil red Xs” turned out to be some very interesting pictures.
Guess that dude really had/has some 'splainin to do.
How deep is that ravine that he rolled down,about a 100 ft. ?
I guess he was lucky he was drunk,and as some else said before,
maybe that will cure him of doing something else like that,for
the rest of his life.
As far as getting the truck out,looks like even using a hi-rail crane
would have been tricky.
…I can’t imagine anyway of removing the vehicle with the exception of some heavy duty hi rail equipment as Locomutt indicates, and that would be rather challanging from what it looks like in BRF’s photos…That driver was really fortunate the truck wasn’t outside of the {outside rail}, so when it came upon the “no support under the outer rail” it very well may have rolled to the outside and down the washout with pretty tragic results. It really would be interesting to find out how it has been removed, if in fact it has been extracted somehow…
Good pics…
I’d drag it to the right a bit till the truck was more or less supported by the rail.You could just pull it out then. Obviously I’m not too concerned about damaging the truck a bit.
NS’s mechanical department with a “Brute” crane or a pile driver/OhioCrane would make short work of that…
Could any of those cranes be brought in without coming up the track, as in on a maintenance truck? Or simply just a powerful winch? They’d have to uncover the dirt pile on the track and refasten the rails before they could get there otherwise.
…Many don’t realize how narrow and angled that ROW really is to be “driving” something up or down the grade to get to the spot…There is no support near the truck on the tracks either to bring a piece of equipment to the site even if it got past the dirt pile and the rails were refastened…Not an easy task.
Awwwwww that is a sweet looking F150 Lariat in white. Kinda rare. 97 or 98 by the front grill, and I don’t think those rims were available in 97, so I think its a 98. I’m sad to see a nice truck in the hands of someone stupid.
Adrianspeeder