Re: Runaways
| April 20, 2010 06:15PM |
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Tom Moungovan Wrote:
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> Runaways don't always have to involve an entire
> train...it could be two coupled cars that got away
> and went for miles. Stranger things have happened
> in the last 10 years.
When I worked for White Pass, we had a combine and a lowboy flatcar run away from Glacier station and wreck .... that was a case of crew leaving the cars with air brakes set but not securing them otherwise. When the air bled off, away they went. I think it was early summer 1977.
Some years back in Boise we had some passenger cars get away from the local and rolled through town (and a number of crossings) until a cop boarded and set hand brakes. That was on the UP.
Skip Luke
Switchman (ret): Grand Canyon Railway;
Engineer (ret): Georgetown Loop RR Inc., Sumpter Valley Ry., Monticello & Sangamon Valley;
Dispatcher(ret): Illinois Central, White Pass & Yukon, Burlington Northern Ry.
Mariner, Musician, Miner
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> Runaways don't always have to involve an entire
> train...it could be two coupled cars that got away
> and went for miles. Stranger things have happened
> in the last 10 years.
When I worked for White Pass, we had a combine and a lowboy flatcar run away from Glacier station and wreck .... that was a case of crew leaving the cars with air brakes set but not securing them otherwise. When the air bled off, away they went. I think it was early summer 1977.
Some years back in Boise we had some passenger cars get away from the local and rolled through town (and a number of crossings) until a cop boarded and set hand brakes. That was on the UP.
Skip Luke
Switchman (ret): Grand Canyon Railway;
Engineer (ret): Georgetown Loop RR Inc., Sumpter Valley Ry., Monticello & Sangamon Valley;
Dispatcher(ret): Illinois Central, White Pass & Yukon, Burlington Northern Ry.
Mariner, Musician, Miner
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