Hi once again, I just read on local news web site that in the town of polk a CN train engine caught fire this morning town of richland firefighters put the fire out. The train was on it’s way from Fon du lac WI to Chicago When the engine caught fire. From the picture on the news web page it looks like the engine was a total loss but then again. The shop guys can most likely save it but who knows.
No link to the site with the photo?
I hope the train crew simply called 911 and let the fire dept take care of it while not risking their own safety trying to put it out themselves. We had a engr a couple yrs ago who had a trailing unit in his consist catch fire, he goes back to try to put it out, (against the condr orders) inhales some smoke and missed several wks work account of that and had to go through a act of Congress to mark back up.Not worth it. Equipment can be replaced, human lives can’t.
Hope the drew wasnt fired for that there was a story here on the U P that a crew had their lead engine catch fire they dialed 911 on both the radio on the engine informed the dispatcher that they were getting off the power and then dailed 911 on a cell phone the fire department arrived and put the fire out A manager arrived and promply fired both the engineer and the conductor for not tieing down the engine and train . Its things like this that convince me that the monkeys get out of the cage once in a while Larry
Appears that it could be a UP GE unit (?)
Looks like that to me, too–an older one, still with the red stripe below the walkway. I didn’t know UP sent power that way on CN trains. I hardly think it is totally gone, though.
Kudos to writer Katie Long for including the details needed to report the story, short and succinct. Too many of today’s writers would have launched into a tirade about how this train fire affected the environment, who was at fault, blah, blah, blah.
Katie, you have a future. [bow]
P.S. And kudos to me for resisting the temptation to say “Long kept it short.”
The few times I went to Byron Hill (between Fondy and Chicago) I generally saw a few UP’s older GE’s (Dash 8’s some Dash 9’s). Maybe CN is leaseing them because of the retirement of most of WC’s SD45’s?
dont call them techno-toasters for nothing…
csx engineer
Usually the UP units can be seen on the coal trains.
A few weeks ago there were two BNSF units and two NS units on a southbound out of FDL.