09-06-2010, 04:29 PM
Gary S Wrote:jim currie Wrote:didn't wade through all the photos
I suppose I am guilty of posting a "flood" of photos, causing readers the necessity of pulling up their pants legs as they cross the murky depths of my build threads. :oops:
Interesting. This is a possibility on this bridge too. Could a derailed car damage a wooden bridge to the point it would have to be rebuilt?
Gary that wasn't meant as a derogatory statement I just am stuck on dialup with a broken accelerator right now i'm zipping along at a whopping 48kbps :cry:
the one in colorado happened in 1968(if memory serves me :? ) it was a branch line to several mines , most were closed down the last one on the branch was the monark mine still opperating at the time, a cut of empty gons were being pushed up the line somthing caused the lead gon to derail just before the trestle, caboose (no rear brakeman to watch )was next to the loco they dident know it was off till they seen a gon flip up on end the lead truck went through the deck and loco kept pushing till it fliped the gon up ripping most of the deck and the stringers off hence the quick repair.
jim