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Carlos Llamas

January 07, 2005 11:30PM

Oh those Drop Bottom Gons are kinda spooky sometimes, we had a load in one and had to leave it overnight in Sublette, that night it rained and soaked the load of dirt. The next day we tried to dump it near Milepost 309, normally you dump one corner and a opposite corner to avoid unbalancing the load.. Well when we hit the releases on the door, one side actually shattered and the Car rolled right over on its side.. I may be the only Cumbres & Toltec Engineer to have Rolled A drop Bottom right over on its Side!!!! I wasn't even moving, just siting in the cab of Diesel 19 and I watched the thing roll right over from the seat.

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