High winds pick up garage in central Nebraska and drop it on train tracks.
How does the railroad know?
Mook
Eyes. Either their own or those of a concerned citizen or public safety type.
I thought for sure it would be something electrifying?
Signal circuits require a direct short between the rails. A wooden garage isn’t going to provide that. Even a steel building would be questionable - witness comments in other threads about hi-rail vehicles not tripping the circuits.
Assuming no casualties, though, the comments in the cab of a train approaching said garage would be worth recording…
<Say, CSX, did the DS say anything about putting this train in the garage?>
<Why, no LC, he didn’t. Probably ought to stop then…>
<This’ll be a good tale down a the diner!>
While funny, that is a little scary.
Middle of nowhere. Sparcely populated. Or maybe other damage more serious and no one thinks to check the tracks. Middle of the night - as this was - and maybe something just a little smaller …wow…Makes Mookie think she wants to be an engineer in daylight only?
Hmmm…in mountainous country they have detector fences to warn of rockslides ahead. Maybe in Nebraska they oughta have…
Naaah!
Seriously, Jen, a train crew encountering something like this would react about the same way as if it were a vehicle on the tracks…try (probably with feelings of futility) to stop short, and duck when they can’t. The results would probably be messy, but not as damaging. Hopefully nothing would have gotten wedged in such a way as to cause a derailment.
I would wait until we were just about to hit, then yell to wake up the conductor. Imagine his first thoughts upon awakening and seeing a house approaching…[}:)]
“Damn ToTo we’re back in Kansas!!”
LC
Munchkins & Flying Monkey Alert: Sure that garage doesn’t belong to the Wicked Witch of the North?[(-D][(-D][(-D]
Since you brought me into this…
I used to know an old head Conductor, now long retired, who was known as the guy responsible for bringing down the last old steel overhead bridge on a certain section of the former Erie in NJ. Apparently one night while heading out with a stack train of double stacks someone forgot to mention that this train was over height for this particular section that was being used as a detour for some bridge work. The overhead bridge was dislocated from its abuttments by the train and…
Early the next morning an NJT commuter train was passing thru when it came around a curve and immediately went into emergency. The crew got on the radio with the obligatory “Emergency, Emergency, Emergency” and when the DS came on and asked why, the Engineer responded, “We’re in emergency due to a bridge problem at milepost 71.” The DS retorted “there is no bridge at MP71”. To which the excited and frustrated Engineer responded, “THERE IS NOW!”
LC
LOL, Hey MC, the wicked witches are east and west. Glenda was the good witch of the north I think…
LC
Z-
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again…you are an evil genius…FOFLMAO…
LC
Glenda was a Cornhusker?[%-)][%-)][%-)]
Gee…go out to the car dealership to bring home a new car for a 24 hour test drive and bring home a train instead LOL.
Will have to use more than a tennis ball hanging on a string to judge parking from the wall LOL
Take care,
Russell
Did anybody think to check the batteries in the garage door opener[?][:)]
You guys are too much.
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Geez MC I guess so, I always though she was a porn star[;)]
LC
Such expression’s as these are truly worth reading, no one would believe them if they weren’t written down and thats true in North Carolina as well as Kansas [bow][bow][(-D][(-D][swg]
If it was metal, it may have messed the signals up.