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<p><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva;font-size:small;">It looks like it was working fine until the engineer opened the throttle a couple more notches. At first I could not understand if that obvious line was the pull cable because it seems too light and loose. Apparently that is just an electrical cable that is lying there alongside the locomotive they are pulling. The actual pull cable hardly shows, and it is buried in the ground for the 20-30 feet approaching the locomotive they are pulling.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva;font-size:small;">When the pull force gets high enough, you can see the nearest pulling locomotive suddenly crab sideways off the track. It appears as though it climbed the rail rather than tipping the rail over. You can almost see it jump up enough for its flanges to hop over the rail.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva;font-size:small;">I wonder if just the one unit tipped over, or if the next one went over as well. That looks like meter gage. </span></p> <p><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva;font-size:small;">They should have seen that coming, but plenty can go wrong in picking up a wreck. </span></p>
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