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<p><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva;font-size:small;">[quote user="selector"]</span></p> <p>[quote user="Bucyrus"]</p> <p><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva;font-size:small;">..They should have seen that coming, but plenty can go wrong in <strong>picking up</strong> a wreck. </span>[/quote]</p> <p>Bold emphasis mine. The problem is that they <span style="text-decoration:underline;">didn't</span> pick up the fallen loco, they attempted to drag it broad-face-first through an increasing mass of wet, hard, muck. It was a very silly thing to do IMO.</p> <p>Crandell<span style="font-family:verdana,geneva;font-size:small;">[/quote]</span></p> <p><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva;font-size:small;">I only use the term, “picking up” in a general sense of cleanup, and not confined to actual lifting. But plenty of big hooks have tipped over due to bad judgment in lifting. I agree that they should have seen the problem posed by pulling at an offset. </span></p> <p><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva;font-size:small;">I suspect pulling with a locomotive is relatively uncommon, but I have seen the BN use a GP-20 to drag a loaded grain hopper. They were pulling in a straight line so it worked okay. They had a couple wheel loaders pushing while the locomotive, with cable slack, ran forward about 10 feet and jerked the cable tight. The car would move about three feet each time they did that. </span></p>
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