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 Posted - February 13 2011 : 12:55:39 AM
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A few months ago, I was driving around San Antonio, just getting familiar with my new surroundings. From the highway, I thought that I had seen a turntable in a rail yard. I didn't think much about it at the time, but I decided to look into it and see what history I could uncover. So I took a look on Google's satelite photos and sure enough, there it was, an in tact turntable.
/tyco/forum/uploaded/RDC1/20110213004900_san antonio turntable.JPG
I thought that there must have been a roundhouse on site at one time. I wondered what it looked like back when it was built and for which railroad. What I uncovered, shocked me. The worst locomotive explosion in history. The story can be found here:
http://colfa.utsa.edu/users/jreynolds/Tucker/THE%20EVENT.html
There's a nice drawing of the roundhouse on the next page. I wanted to get a feel for how it would look if it were still standing today, so I laid the drawing over top of the screen shot that I took:
/tyco/forum/uploaded/RDC1/20110213005132_SPRH4.jpg
~ Dave
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Posted - February 13 2011 : 5:04:30 PM
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| Wow thats some story
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Posted - October 20 2011 : 7:07:56 PM
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Very Intresting Story. Goes Amongst the Ranks Of The Tank car that had a Half the tank propelled 1/4 by and explosion! The whole Screen And Night Sky Went White! Check out train Blevee on youtube, and get ready for an explosion.
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Posted - October 20 2011 : 8:59:37 PM
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quote:| Very Intresting Story. Goes Amongst the Ranks Of The Tank car that had a Half the tank propelled 1/4 by and explosion! The whole Screen And Night Sky Went White! Check out train Blevee on youtube, and get ready for an explosion. |
That is indeed! Heres the youtube link:
.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xf3WKTwHpIU
" Heck with counting 'em rivets, TRAINS ARE FOR FUN! Not called the Mad Scientist for nothing either!"
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Posted - October 20 2011 : 9:04:16 PM
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Thanks Justin! I couldn`t Find It. See, Trains cause much less deaths than planes
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Posted - October 22 2011 : 10:14:11 PM
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RDC, that San Antonio boiler explosion is in the Train Wrecks book by Robert C. Reed. I still have the same copy I've had since I was kid. It leveled the whole roundhouse, and chunks of boiler partially destroyed nearby farmhouses.
I've made your image links viewable by adding the missing forum url.
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Posted - October 23 2011 : 07:35:44 AM
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Thanks Nickleplate! I couldnt use google Earth. Hadn`t downloaded it yet.
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