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TRAIN WRECK...WAITING TO HAPPEN.... - doctorwayne - 01-28-2019

A friend sent me this LINK.

I'm surprised that no one else seemed to react....perhaps asleep at the wheel?

Wayne


RE: TRAIN WRECK...WAITING TO HAPPEN.... - nachoman - 01-28-2019

No kidding!


RE: TRAIN WRECK...WAITING TO HAPPEN.... - ezdays - 01-28-2019

Seems like even the person taking the video didn't want any part of it. She turned around right after the wreck. I guess she figured that the crossing was going to be blocked for quite a while and didn't care to see if anyone needed help. Cameras are everywhere now days and sometimes that's a good thing.


RE: TRAIN WRECK...WAITING TO HAPPEN.... - BR60103 - 01-28-2019

I haven't seen anything about it in the newspapers. Did it happen too far west of Hwy 27?


RE: TRAIN WRECK...WAITING TO HAPPEN.... - doctorwayne - 01-28-2019

I don't know, David, as I'm not familiar at all with the highway system of Saskatchewan. 

I am, however, a bit confused by one of the links that appears with the wreck video, showing one of the locomotives on fire, too.  It appears as if it was the 27th car in the train which derailed first...seems odd that so much ahead of it would be affected.

Wayne


RE: TRAIN WRECK...WAITING TO HAPPEN.... - Charlie B - 01-29-2019

(01-28-2019, 09:30 PM)doctorwayne Wrote: I don't know, David, as I'm not familiar at all with the highway system of Saskatchewan. 

I am, however, a bit confused by one of the links that appears with the wreck video, showing one of the locomotives on fire, too.  It appears as if it was the 27th car in the train which derailed first...seems odd that so much ahead of it would be affected.

Wayne
The locomotive was a DPU (helper) and it just kept pushing while the cars in front were leaving the track. 
Charlie


RE: TRAIN WRECK...WAITING TO HAPPEN.... - doctorwayne - 01-29-2019

Thanks, Charlie, that sorta explains it.  I wonder why, though, they were using a DPU:  the train was only 52 cars and there were two locos on the headend.  Most of Saskatchewan is not at all similar to the Rockies or Swiss Alps.  I would have thought that as soon as the train went into emergency due to it breaking-up, the DPU not only would have braked, but also cut power.  I must admit, though, that I'm not totally familiar with how they work.

Wayne


RE: TRAIN WRECK...WAITING TO HAPPEN.... - BR60103 - 01-29-2019

Wayne: the Hwy 27 I meant is the one that runs up beside Malton Airport. Dig at parochiality of a certain city.


RE: TRAIN WRECK...WAITING TO HAPPEN.... - doctorwayne - 01-29-2019

Surprisingly, that's the highway to which I thought you were referring, but it made me wonder if you had perhaps not seen the reference to Saskatchewan. 

I've heard from some Hogtowners that the source of sunshine has a connection to the nether regions of their anatomy, which may explain the "aromas" present just about when you hit the Gardiner Expressway.  I do have friends in Trawna, though, so don't want to make too much of an issue out of these things.   Misngth

Wayne