11-01-2020, 01:14 PM
This is somewhat related, You might consider this for a scene.
To add to the newspaper article, My future wife was 11 at the time and her father was the manager of the loading dock where these trucks were loaded. She went to the site with her dad. The truck was loaded with chicken guts and feet and the train hit between the first and second trailer.
I had heard this story many times from her, and then I got involved with the railroad in Negley and I was repainting one of the Y&S locomotives for the Little Beaver Creek Valley historical society.
I got to be friends with a retired engineer and one conversation brought this incident up. He was the conductor that night and Little Joe McMahon was the engineer. He told us it was so bad they had to get another locomotive and a new crew because they were losing stomach contents even after they were empty.
I talked to the guy that lived by the crossing and he said he was lucky the train was going east and knocked the truck away from the house otherwise it would have been a total loss from the guts. He said it stunk for a couple months afterwards.
When I told Chis my FIL had run that company he got a good laugh out of it, and then told me it was the locomotive I was painting that was the one that hit the truck. So a scene with a truck pulling a set of doubles waiting at a crossing would be a ghoulish scene for Halloween.
Charlie
To add to the newspaper article, My future wife was 11 at the time and her father was the manager of the loading dock where these trucks were loaded. She went to the site with her dad. The truck was loaded with chicken guts and feet and the train hit between the first and second trailer.
I had heard this story many times from her, and then I got involved with the railroad in Negley and I was repainting one of the Y&S locomotives for the Little Beaver Creek Valley historical society.
I got to be friends with a retired engineer and one conversation brought this incident up. He was the conductor that night and Little Joe McMahon was the engineer. He told us it was so bad they had to get another locomotive and a new crew because they were losing stomach contents even after they were empty.
I talked to the guy that lived by the crossing and he said he was lucky the train was going east and knocked the truck away from the house otherwise it would have been a total loss from the guts. He said it stunk for a couple months afterwards.
When I told Chis my FIL had run that company he got a good laugh out of it, and then told me it was the locomotive I was painting that was the one that hit the truck. So a scene with a truck pulling a set of doubles waiting at a crossing would be a ghoulish scene for Halloween.
Charlie