https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOpf-xw9FNU&feature=emb_logo
Exhaustively discussed ... in more than one thread ... on the Trains Magazine forum.
This was a local move, probably out of the ex-IC yard in southwest Memphis via East Junction, that was shoving up a dedicated lead under Riverport Road into an oil refinery. We think the racks were involved with a transload facility in the old Cotton Belt intermodal yard east of the accident point; yet to be seen if they were pickups or setouts. Bridge well known not to be suitable for overheight cars.
What you can't see in the video is that there are gasoline transfer pipelines on the opposite side of the pictured bridge (which has the line going from West Junction up to the Missisippi bridges via Broadway and the bluff line past Central Station) and this could have been very, very much worse if any of the debris had gone a very slightly different way...
OvermodExhaustively discussed ... in more than one thread ... on the Trains Magazine forum
Maybe so. But some of us don't participate in that forum. Since it was new to me, I thought I'd share.
maxmanSince it was new to me, I thought I'd share.
I mentioned the Trains thread(s) because they are a source of information beyond any of the press coverage I have seen so far, if anyone wants a quick fill-in. Saves typing!
Mr B posted that in the Diner on Tuesday. Stop on in.
Henry
COB Potomac & Northern
Shenandoah Valley
BigDaddyMr B posted that in the Diner on Tuesday.
Or was it that Pullman guy?
Saw that video the day it happened. Incredible.
Rich
Alton Junction
Did we not have a recent thread someone asked if anyone was modelling unusual scenes on their pike? Well, there you go, a project for next winter.