MRL vs Elk Herd
Norm
In the early 80's I lived in the Powder River Basin of Wyoming. During an especially hard winter, the BN had a lot of this problem with antelope.
Thanks to Chris / CopCarSS for my avatar.
Too bad those elk were pulverized, ever had an elk steak? Yum!
My condolences in advance to the RH people in the locomotive inspection pits at Havre, Livingston, Laurel, SandPoint or Alliance....
We hit a deer with an F unit. Caused no end of problems under the loco...
Larry Resident Microferroequinologist (at least at my house) Everyone goes home; Safety begins with you My Opinion. Standard Disclaimers Apply. No Expiration Date Come ride the rails with me! There's one thing about humility - the moment you think you've got it, you've lost it...
tree68 We hit a deer with an F unit. Caused no end of problems under the loco...
I bet it didn't do the deer any good, either.
Jeff
jeffhergert tree68 We hit a deer with an F unit. Caused no end of problems under the loco... I bet it didn't do the deer any good, either. Jeff
Johnny
Over a period of a couple of years my brother killed two or three deer with one of his employer's pickup trucks, none while hunting. His boss was not amused. My other brother and I were extremely amused, and had a lot of fun giving him a hard time about it.
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I hope that you didn't have a BLT packed for lunch.
edblysard tree68 We hit a deer with an F unit. Caused no end of problems under the loco... Try a feral hog under the lead traction motor....bad bacon, bad....
Try a feral hog under the lead traction motor....bad bacon, bad....
Deggesty edblysard tree68 We hit a deer with an F unit. Caused no end of problems under the loco... Try a feral hog under the lead traction motor....bad bacon, bad.... You have wild hogs roaming around in Houston?
You have wild hogs roaming around in Houston?
SALfan Over a period of a couple of years my brother killed two or three deer with one of his employer's pickup trucks, none while hunting. His boss was not amused. My other brother and I were extremely amused, and had a lot of fun giving him a hard time about it.
Once was on the Empire Builder when we hit a steer. Radio transcript:
Engine crew "Did we?"
Conductor (on ground): "Oh, yeah..."
EC: "Is it?"
C: "Uh huh."
Sometime back a friend was running at track speed hamburgered a big alligator at Plaestine, Arkansas with a set of BNSF GE's. {Trackage rights on UPRR !). Have not heard if he has hit any critters between Carbondale and Chicago with his Amtrak GE's.
At one time (and possibly still) Al Krug's website had a picture of a locomotive that hit a horse at speed. Not much left but oats...
Murphy Siding Deggesty edblysard tree68 We hit a deer with an F unit. Caused no end of problems under the loco... Try a feral hog under the lead traction motor....bad bacon, bad.... You have wild hogs roaming around in Houston? Yes, but they're using locomotives to thin the herds.
Yes, but they're using locomotives to thin the herds.
So they are using hogs to thin out the hogs? Or maybe on a switching road, it's using goats to thin out the hogs.
jeffhergert Murphy Siding Deggesty edblysard tree68 We hit a deer with an F unit. Caused no end of problems under the loco... Try a feral hog under the lead traction motor....bad bacon, bad.... You have wild hogs roaming around in Houston? Yes, but they're using locomotives to thin the herds. So they are using hogs to thin out the hogs? Or maybe on a switching road, it's using goats to thin out the hogs. Jeff
From The Story of American Railroads, pg. 228 (circa 1950’s):
Maine’s fish and game commissioner sent a protest to [Bangor & Aroostook] President Cram saying that he had received reports that locomotives engineers of the BAR had run down a number of moose, just for the hell of it, and he wondered if it were not possible to put a stop to the practice. President Cram gave the matter his consideration, then dictated a reply to the commissioner. “My dear sir,” he wrote, “I have read with interest and no little pleasure your game warden’s account of how our engineers have been stalking moose, and leaping at them with their iron horses. But this report, I fear, smells of nature faking of the worst sort. Hitting a moose (Alces americana) is too dangerous a sport for well-trained engineers, such as ours, who are a conservative lot and do not consider it fun to run into anything which may be on the rails. Of course, one of them may occasionally run a rabbit to earth or point a grouse with his 500,000-pound monster, but they never use them for big game. . . .”
From A Treasury of Railroad Folklore, about a livestock vs. train incident:
"First I seen the bull coming through the oats, then I seen the oats coming through the bull."
- Paul North.
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