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Talk about a Bad Day

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Posted by tomkat-13 on Wednesday, November 4, 2009 12:59 PM

Frisco RR 1511 train wreck 8-31-1930 near Osage Hills Mo. 6 dead, 70+ injuried. Derailment caused by limestone rocks piled on rightside rail. These photographs are from the J. R. Eike album in my personal collection. Here is the link:

http://www.usgennet.org/usa/mo/county/stlouis/kempland/glassplate.htm

News paper reports over 10,000 people came to the wreck site.

I model MKT & CB&Q in Missouri. A MUST SEE LINK: Great photographs from glassplate negatives of St Louis 1914-1917!!!! http://www.usgennet.org/usa/mo/county/stlouis/kempland/glassplate.htm Boeing Employee RR Club-St Louis http://www.berrc-stl.com/
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Posted by IVRW on Wednesday, November 4, 2009 11:37 AM
EEP, I hope all of those dont happen on my RR.

~G4

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Posted by jwhitten on Tuesday, November 3, 2009 11:56 AM

jfallon

 And that was at the dock! You have to wonder how many railroad cars are on the bottom of New York Bay.

 

 

Headphones  ...Sittin' at the bottom of the bay... wasting t-i-i-i-me.... rustin' away....  Whistling

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Posted by markpierce on Tuesday, November 3, 2009 11:23 AM

In the Montevideo shipping channel our ship rammed a barge in broad daylight.  It wasn't a railroad barge and it didn't sink; however, several SUVs and containers were knocked off and sunk to the bottom.  We were delayed three days and the captain was fired.  This photo shows repairs being made to the Norwegian Dream (unofficially renamed Norwegian Nightmare).  The cruise line shortly retired the ship.

 

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Posted by P&Slocal on Tuesday, November 3, 2009 9:08 AM

I'm not sure what kind of day to call this...bad or lucky.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-smEEHYdGQ

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Posted by cudaken on Tuesday, November 3, 2009 7:29 AM

I hate Rust

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Posted by Texas Zepher on Monday, November 2, 2009 8:30 PM

Yeah that's a bad day, but this is a really bad last day.

http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=298337

 

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Posted by blownout cylinder on Monday, November 2, 2009 7:13 PM

Sir Madog

 Should I say Sign - Oops?

We have a car ferry nearby - guess, how many times this happens, now that people follow their GPS instead of looking on the road ahead!

We call that a derivative of ditch diving----happens when one is paying more attention on cell phone than on driving. A variation on that theme would be the one for winter driving----can't see the dang road---OOPS--into the ditch we go

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Posted by cudaken on Monday, November 2, 2009 6:57 PM

 Here is a bad day.

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Posted by chatanuga on Monday, November 2, 2009 4:40 PM

You're gonna need a bigger boat.

Kevin

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Posted by jecorbett on Monday, November 2, 2009 3:10 PM

Maybe due to traffic conjestion on the surface, they were experimenting with submarine ferries.

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Posted by dehusman on Monday, November 2, 2009 2:59 PM

Based on the stories real railroaders tell me about such incidents, the proper response is, "Barge, what barge?"

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Posted by jfallon on Monday, November 2, 2009 2:45 PM

 And that was at the dock! You have to wonder how many railroad cars are on the bottom of New York Bay.

If everybody is thinking alike, then nobody is really thinking.

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Posted by MisterBeasley on Monday, November 2, 2009 12:02 PM

Well, duh.  Why would anyone put the car float in before the Envirotex is fully cured?  Whistling

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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, November 2, 2009 10:29 AM

 Should I say Sign - Oops?

We have a car ferry nearby - guess, how many times this happens, now that people follow their GPS instead of looking on the road ahead!

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Talk about a Bad Day
Posted by last mountain & eastern hogger on Monday, November 2, 2009 10:26 AM

Banged Head

For all you Car Float  fanatics... 


April 21, 1961
AP Wire photo
authors collection

You can find this under Bush Terminals.

I don't think that rope will do that Dockworker any good here..Smile,Wink, & Grin

Johnboy out............

from Saskatchewan, in the Great White North.. 

We have met the enemy,  and he is us............ (Pogo)

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