This caught my attention this morning
LANCASTER, S.C. – A train crashed into a convenience store in Lancaster, S.C. Wednesday, seriously injuring one person and knocking the building off its foundation.It appears that the train jumped the tracks, but as of late Wednesday afternoon, there was no explanation as to why.One of the cars slammed into the Buy-Rite Discount Beverage and Cigarettes Store.
The injured person was flown to a Columbia hospital.
Nick
It looks like they shoved just a little too far[:I]
That’s at least 90 days off for the crew![;)]
Would that be only if the crew was found to be at fault for something? I wouldn’t think a crew would be penalized for, say a mishap caused by a broken rail, for example?
A little difficult to tell from the picture, but it appears that the building was located off the end of the siding- in which case a broken rail would only have helped prevent this accident…
The crew will be blamed no matter what. Railroads love the word insibodination it covers everything. I hope i spelled it right.
Brian, looks like you called it perfectly. From another online paper:
LANCASTER — A slow-moving train backed off railroad tracks near downtown and crashed into a convenience store Wednesday afternoon, injuring a customer and leaving three other men shaken up.
The train engineer apparently didn’t heed an order to stop as he backed up on an off-loading track, the head of the local railroad company said. Three cars rolled through a dirt barrier and struck Buy Rite Discount Beverage and Cigarettes, which sits about 30 feet from where the rail line dead ends.
WHAT RAILROAD WAS INVOLVED
Was there no end posts or ties across the end of the spur line tracks ??
No. The report said there was a “dirt barrier” – like a berm in a runaway truck lane.
They should have a train hit the store from the other side to push it back in place.
“Yeah, I’ll take a pack of Marb Reds, a small coffee and WHAT THE @#$%!!!”
Wow, you mean it wasn’t a remote control unit? I thought engineers were in the cab so this wouldn’t happen. [;)]
From Datafever’s post, it appears you are right on. Kind of odd, that a building is at the end of a siding, and the only thing to stop the train cars is a dirt berm?
Railroads frequently have turned to placing dirt or ballast berms in place of track bumpers (Typically Hayes WK models anymore) or the even less effective wheel stops. Train crews still cannot rid themselves of certain sloppy habits (blind shoves) and track bumpers, at $1600 each, take a big bite out of a roadmaster’s budget.
(ya think the operating department or train crew pays for its screw-ups?[(-D][(-D][(-D] , If it were radio failure, why didn’t the hogger stop when he went further than the last called distance to a spot?[;)][;)][;)] Radio failure?-BALONEY!**)
Had a Hayes WK or equivilent been properly installed (that may be asking much depending on the RR), the track bumper would have ripped the freight car trucks out from under the rail car and it would have been a just little harder to hit the store.
Sounds like the claim agent (Ol’ Quick-Check), some carmen and the Roadmaster’s troops are gonna being doing some unplanned hard work while the culprit train crew disappears for a 90 day vacation. Ed, as usual, is on the money.
Maybe they were thirsty and just didn’t feel like walking all the way over to the store…[:P]
(On a serious note, though - it’s never good when somebody gets hurt.)
I read somewhere that this was the Lancaster & Chester Railroad. You know what I was thinking, though, when I first read that it happened in South Carolina.