What happened here ?

[Anonymous]

Trailers are extremely monocoque[sic?]. Everything on that structure depends on everything else. A crack or damage from a tree limb that deforms the top rail can weaken the entire structure. Maybe add the repetitive motion of a flatspot on a wheel (maybe) that has just the right harmonics to get that trailer flexing repeatedly and with ever-increasing amplitude and presto- a total loss. Knowing a little about Schneider, I would expect to see huge rolls of paper in there; how will they get'em out?

[csxengineer98]

QUOTE: Originally posted by CSXrules4eva

That must sux for Schneider National's customer whos goods were in the trailer. I've seen this happen on the good old Conhocken Exit of I 476, or to those more familer w/ the area Blue Route. It was a Lehigh Valley daryies truck, which might I add was carrying, milk. Can you guess wut the milk did?/ It seaped out of the cartons and onto the Blue Route. IT wasn't pretty and it was a waste of good milk. This is why the trailers and everything else that hauls anything has a MAX CAPASITY.

it would suck..but odds are that the cargo isnt that damaged... now if it didnt clear a hight clearance obstruction... that would truly suck...not to much cargo makes it when the top is sheared off
csx engineer

[CSXrules4eva]

That must sux for Schneider National's customer whos goods were in the trailer. I've seen this happen on the good old Conhocken Exit of I 476, or to those more familer w/ the area Blue Route. It was a Lehigh Valley daryies truck, which might I add was carrying, milk. Can you guess wut the milk did?/ It seaped out of the cartons and onto the Blue Route. IT wasn't pretty and it was a waste of good milk. This is why the trailers and everything else that hauls anything has a MAX CAPASITY.

[corwinda]

I saw a van buckled that way on the freeway one time. The trucker had managed to get the rig to the shoulder.

[Anonymous]

I've seen similar mid van collapses on trailers hauling bulk grain as a backhaul cargo.

BTW, I also read an article describing a derailment caused by steel coils busting through the bottom of an ISO container riding on a spine car. Not a laughing matter.

[miniwyo]

LMAO!!!!!

[tree68]

<Dials 1-800-railroad emergency number>
"Railroad police"
"Uh, yeah. On the train that just went by Podunk Hollow, theres a broken trailer."
"Broken Trailer?"
"Yeah - an orange one. It's bent right in the middle."
"Right. You're in Podunk Hollow?"
"Stay right there. We'll be out to get you - I mean check it out. We'll be wearing white suits..."

[TH&B]

There is such thing as 'metal eating termites' it's called road salt. But could this be caused by a hard slack action in the train?
Maybe it was a steel coil that roaled into the middle.

[Junctionfan]

I wonder what catastrophes they will go through than with stacked Schneider containers?

[csxengineer98]

what do expect...its a Schneider National trailer...hehehe
csx engineer

[Junctionfan]

I saw a Triton 40 foot container look like that on a CN intermodal on a video I own.

[Anonymous]

It's going to be a mess getting that thing off of there.

[mudchicken]

Yeah, but the truckers are not scared of the scales. They just wait until the scale people go home and close shop, then pass through unmolested.

[Anonymous]

Some one will probably be fired once this filters thru everyone involved.

Never ever stack all your stuff in the middile of the trailer. I can think of a thousand items capable of breaking a Box trailer like that. Some of those items should really be hauled on flatbeds capable of "belly loading" Something like 45,000 pounds across 15 feet? I forget...

Pallets can weight up to 2500 pounds give a take a little and have a specific loading pattern that resembles a Child's Hopscotch on the sidewalk game. Specific patterns by number of total pallets and also types of product.

You should thank God that did not happen on the freeway (Highway) because lives could have been lost.

[Anonymous]

I was the one who left a comment on that photo. Guess I got my answer[:D]

QUOTE: Originally posted by gabe

By the way, where was this picture taken?

Gabe

The location caption says Findlay, Illinois.

[locomutt]

"I TOLD YOU that there were such things as 'metal eating termites',
But No,you wouldn't believe me"

[Junctionfan]

Looks like a load shift and some off it fell onto the bottom middle and broke it. Maybe hauling steel ingots.............now that's some theory.

[vsmith]

Cant you tell? the Engineer went too fast over a speed bump!

[CShaveRR]

Dunno--somebody put a straw on a camel's back?

I'm pretty sure the trailer wouldn't have looked like that when it was loaded, and the loading operation itself shouldn't have done that.

[gabe]

By the way, where was this picture taken?

Gabe

[gabe]

I have seen this before. When tractor trailers are overloaded they break just like that.

It is simple structural failure.

I was a bag boy at a Kroger Grocery Store while I was putting myself through college. Our store once loaded a truck with too much produce and this happened.

Good thing that happened while it was on a rail car rather than infront of you or I on the highway.

Gabe

[Anonymous]

http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=80232