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 Posted - May 13 2011 : 06:16:14 AM
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this has got to be the luckiest if not most precarious escapes for the drivers,i have seen,ken
Marlborough Junc Mass on the New Haven dated Feb 4th 1898. The collision happened on the Clinton and Fitchborough branch. A milk train hauled by 4-4-0 #234 hit head on with a snowplough pushed by two locos (one of which was 823). The 4-4-0 rode up the sloping snowplough blade and perched on the boiler of 823
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Posted - May 13 2011 : 08:42:42 AM
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 When 2 trains colide head on it's called a "cornfield meet"
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Posted - May 13 2011 : 09:04:02 AM
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| hi ben what about giving it one a lift ken
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Posted - May 13 2011 : 6:24:21 PM
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same thing I think idk Also when passenger cars go into each other It called "telescoping"  (geek! XD )
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Posted - November 07 2020 : 6:16:01 PM
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quote:this has got to be the luckiest if not most precarious escapes for the drivers,i have seen,ken
Marlborough Junc Mass on the New Haven dated Feb 4th 1898. The collision happened on the Clinton and Fitchborough branch. A milk train hauled by 4-4-0 #234 hit head on with a snowplough pushed by two locos (one of which was 823). The 4-4-0 rode up the sloping snowplough blade and perched on the boiler of 823
Originally posted by catfordken - May 13 2011 : 06:16:14 AM
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Wild meeting of the two engines in this photo.
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Posted - November 07 2020 : 6:49:12 PM
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| woah
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Posted - November 07 2020 : 6:51:07 PM
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One has to wonder if the crew did survive, or were injured falling out
of the cab. I am frequently surprised at how reckless so many drivers
were in those days (Casey Jones a famous example). I perceive a
Devil-may-care, fatalistic, tendency from a surprising number of
guys. I am reminded of an old film of a CNJ Camel Back flying
through turnouts with the brakeman casually hanging off the pilot
in a yard. Another of a large locomotive, maybe PRR, lying on its
side in a rail yard.
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Posted - November 07 2020 : 9:49:37 PM
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Yikes.
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Posted - November 07 2020 : 10:45:29 PM
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quote:I perceive a Devil-may-care, fatalistic, tendency from a surprising number of guys. I am reminded of an old film of a CNJ Camel Back flying through turnouts with the brakeman casually hanging off the pilot in a yard.
Originally posted by Chops124Â -Â November 07 2020Â :Â 6:51:07 PM
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On the pilot step there are grab irons to hang on securely. Shoot! It's not as if he were riding on the roof, going backwards with a handcar chasing the engine.
It's not as if he were riding on the smoke box hanging onto the headlight housing with one foot.
Of course, nowadays railroading is much safer. What can happen to you now that we have safety vests?
Carpe Manana!
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Posted - November 08 2020 : 12:10:54 AM
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| Right!
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