front page of the Crescent news tonight shows a triple crown train derailment on the old nkp line near melrose ohio on sunday morning.27 cars derailed.anyone need a washer or dryer?
stay safe
joe
At least it wasn’t on that same curve over by Quentin’s house.
the line had a coal train derrailment about 4 years ago 2 miles west of there and further down the line in payne ohiothey had a derailment also about 2 years ago.
stay safe
joe
Joseph:
With soaking you folks have had lately, it’s no surprise that the least stable (& unforgiving) cars on the railroad found the smallest of defects to make a statement. I wouldn’t be surprised to hear that the mudmonster is blamed for this one. (even though the Triple Crown railcar people maybe ought to share a portion of the cause/blame.)
Hi Triple Crown fans…Wow…another derailment…! I’m not so sure that area has had that much rain lately that would be effecting road bed…{I might be wrong}, but hasn’t the massive rains of recent weeks been farther east…
I know here in eastcentral Indiana we’re getting pretty dry. Not sure just where Melrose, Oh. is located {within the state}…Guessing it might be around Cincinnati area. Especially since the T C travels through Muncie…{we know about that, don’t we…}, and heads south and I’m supposing that route takes it over that way.
For you folks who would like to see a picture {albeit a small one}…go to a search engine and call up the Crescent News…It has the article and a small photo. Shows the trailers really torn up…
Yea, Chad…wonder how they got through Muncie if it was going to derail…??
I agree with you on the weather , QM, when some started speculating about heavy rains, my feelers went to full mast as well. we’ve had moderate rain, a couple times during the past 3 weeks, but I’ve been having to water the ol garden lately.
Melrose is located due east of Fort Wayne, due south of where Joe is (roughly) on the old Nickle Plate Cleveland-Chicago mainline, not on the new castle district that runs down your way.
Up here the Triple Crown trains run in and out on several lines, the former Wabash, the former Nickle Plate Mainline, as well as the line down your way.
I like how they list the contents of the train, amongst others, as “furniture for manufactured homes”. How does this differ from furniture for regular homes I wonder…
We call it “Trailer Furniture” or “mobile home” furniture.
Generally assembled with staples rather than screws and nails, and often made of a fabric that will not hold up to any serious scrubbing.
Plan on replacing it in 5 years, is the general rule.
Years ago when I was in college, I lived in a single-wide “manufactured home.” Cheap carpet, cheap paneling, cheap doors, cheap windows, cheap cabinetry. Two-inch interior walls, natural air exchanger (i.e., drafty), cold floors, and the smallest, cheapest appliances available. I swear…better furniture can be found in a kid’s treehouse. [:D]
The washer and dryer was stacked on top of each other as a single unit and was located in the same closet as the furnace and 30-gallon water heater. The dryer didn’t have the usual 4-inch exhaust discharge duct. It was somehow internally connected to the washer’s grey water discharge so the lint blew into the sewer.
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Mark
A G…10-4 on the Melrose location…I looked on an Ohio map but it did not list it…Now we know…Thanks.
modelcar just follow rt 613 in paulding county ohio you will find melrose. (if you blink you’ll miss it) nice ice cream though. paper said it was a broken rail joint that was suspect.there were some fuel injectors and some washer fluid to clean up as well.
stay safe
joe
Somehow the image of you as portrayed by your avatar watering a garden strikes me as extremely funny…
This part of Ohio is known as the Black Swamp region - it wasn’t completely drained and settled until well into the 1900’s It’s the remainder of Lake Maumee, an ancestor of Lake Erie.
It doesn’t take very much rain to soften things up, and it doesn’t drain off for a long, long time.
…A former lake bed…That sounds interesting.
And Joe, the ice cream sounds good…Chocolate or Butter Pecan for me.
Well, I’m always glad to help bring a smile to someone’s face. Make the world a little more pleasant for them.
You would probably get a big kick out of watching me “work” the garden too. Groundhogs being my sworn enemy, neighbors cats that have to be brutalized into not using my mulch for their business, and an unconditional love for vine ripened tomatoes, present the opportunity for endless hours of amusement for my neighbors.
Picture the guy in my avatar with hair, and that subscribes to the “bill murray” (caddy shack) philosophy of grounds keeping, and you’d be pretty darn close. Blend in a little “major hochstedter” character from Hogans Hero’s, and there I’d be.[:D]
seen them go thru tolono il. and they look much sturdier than trailers on flats as they roll by at 50 mph!!
I’ts probably cheaper and lighter for mobility, going to Indiana for those mobile homes.
Lake Maumee begat the great black swamp that makes farming so good in these parts.
Said swamp begat the rivers that spawned the canals that yielded to the railroads that made this place what it is. (since you dared say you found it interesting)