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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;">I would not jump to any conclusions about things being urban legends.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Here is an instance of a hopper car jumping out of a train.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I wondered if the couplers of the cars on each side of the gap actually re-coupled or if it was just on a down grade, and the cars closed the gap by gravity, but did not re-couple.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This was in the link and pin coupler era, so re-coupling under such a circumstance seems far more implausible than merely losing a car.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But the description does say that had the trainmen not discovered the derailed car, they would have left it behind.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If so, they would have had to have been coupled up. </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;">From the <i>Railroad Gazatte</i>:</span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,times;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,times;"></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,times;">March 1884</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;"><span style="font-size: large;">On the night of the 20<sup>th</sup>, near Stairway, N.Y., on the New York, Lake Erie & Western road, a loaded coal dump in the center of a freight train jumped the rails, clearing the rest of the train, and mounting the west bound track, dumped itself on the outside of it in the ditch.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The train ran together again without a jar and the accident was only discovered by the steps of the caboose scraping against the derailed dump as it passed by.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Had a west bound train been passing at the time a serious wreck would probably have resulted.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Had not the men in the caboose discovered the dump on the westward bound track as they passed by, it would have been left there by the train, as no one knew that it had left the track.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></p>
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