Loram rail grinder train LMIX 403 tied up 2 hours ago on the siding close by. The siding is flat and the location the train tied up is in a sag. Appeared to be an HOS issue with no replacement pilot available? However observed every hand brake was being engaged. As well two rail skates installed on cars at each end of the train. Maybe a lesson learned from Canadian oil train accident ?
More than likely, if they haven't been doing it all along to begin with.
I mean really, no one wants to see a segment on a reality show called "When Good Rail Grinders Go Bad!"
The rail grinders were doing that prior to Lac Megantic. I have even seen rail grinders where they attached a come along to the brake piston to keep it extended even if the brakes bled off.
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I think our friend Mr. Mudchicken may have better recall on this than I, but I'm pretty sure a grinding train ran away somewhere out west, with loss of life, a few years back. Lac Megantic was only about 16 months ago.
Carl
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CShaveRR I think our friend Mr. Mudchicken may have better recall on this than I, but I'm pretty sure a grinding train ran away somewhere out west, with loss of life, a few years back. Lac Megantic was only about 16 months ago.
November of 2006 on Donner Pass. A Harsco grinder train derailed after getting away, even after the engineer went into emergency. Two crew members killed, eight survived with minor injuries. This from a newswire story on November 13, 2006.
Link here for subscribers.
EDIT: NTSB Accident Brief at this link.
Carl be correct. Speno/Jackson Jordan /Harsco in 2006. (a runaway of sorts)
All contractor machines are tied-down regardless of size or weight and de-energized. Those rules are learned the hard way and predated Lac Megantic by 20+ years. (and I had my own mis-adventure with Speno and an impatient maintenance crewman in 1989. Good intentions gone bad.)
mudchickenCarl be correct. Speno/Jackson Jordan /Harsco in 2006. (a runaway of sorts)
Is this a .pdf of the accident report?
Overmod mudchicken Carl be correct. Speno/Jackson Jordan /Harsco in 2006. (a runaway of sorts) Is this a .pdf of the accident report?
mudchicken Carl be correct. Speno/Jackson Jordan /Harsco in 2006. (a runaway of sorts)
Semper Vaporo
Pkgs.
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