train accident?

[Anonymous]

Tonight around 8 ish i was headed back from the lake with the trusty beagle and turned across the rr tracks a mile or so from the house, my road runs parrellel to the tracks but a mile away. well anyways there is a lumber place off the tracks and they have a two or three  lines for switching cars around. Well i decied to drive by there to look at the union pacific deisels usally around there at this time. well i went there and there were three engins there 2 up and a rio grande. one section of track crosses the road and their is a switch off the two mainlines, anywhos right on the road there were about 40 or so bikes sitting parked patiently waiting for the road to clear when all the sudden this thundorous boom shook the ground. I do not know what it was the train was slowly backing to attach 4 cars then it stopped right in the middle of the road. everyone was just trying to figure what happened i think . it sat there for like 10 minutes. then all the sudden cops and firetrucks swarmed the area on both sides of the road pushing pple away. nobody knows what happened. i hung around until i couldnt see anymore but i was wondering if anyone knew what might have happened. Since you all been around and know the operations of trains better i thought id ask. its still sitting there but tapped off and thier are lights everywere and the road is blocked. thanks  just curious

[willpick]

Zeke, only thing I can think of is that one of the engines lost a cylinder of it's prime mover-- When one of those diesels explodes it would make a really big bang-- Each cylinder is 700 cubic in. + , and there's 16 or 20 in each engine-- It could have also been the turbocharger-- Hopefully it was not a terrorist attack---

By the way, I saw your Christmas set on Ebay-- some lady was selling the identical set-- and she stated that the locosound engine didn't work--just like yours! .

[Roger Bielen]

Since they were switching hopefully they didn't hit a connected car.  Way back when, the CSX switching crew working the plant next door to ours connected to a connected chlorine car and pulled away.  As I saw the green cloud I grabbed a gas mask and evacuated our plant.

[Anonymous]

Zeke, only thing I can think of is that one of the engines lost a cylinder of it's prime mover-- When one of those diesels explodes it would make a really big bang-- Each cylinder is 700 cubic in. + , and there's 16 or 20 in each engine-- It could have also been the turbocharger-- Hopefully it was not a terrorist attack---

By the way, I saw your Christmas set on Ebay-- some lady was selling the identical set-- and she stated that the locosound engine didn't work--just like yours! .

 

thanks will

 

yes i deceided to give it up. Hopefully someone who buys it will know how to fix it. I will be a little irratated if it was something i did wrong, but i dont see how.