A bridge over the CSX former ACL main line collapsed and caused five cars passing underneath to derail. Also a guy in a pickup jumped the bridge. Only in the South!
here the story from the Charleston Post & Courier: http://www.postandcourier.com/article/20140428/PC16/140429325
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And there AIN'T NO WAY the pickup truck "jumped" the gap! NO WAY! It would take a ramp on the approach side to give the truck an upward momentum to get over the gap. Gravity would pull the truck DOWN into the gap and at a minimum the front of the truck would have been impaled on the opposite edge of the gap.
Gravity, it is not just a good idea; it's the law!
I suggest the truck struck the side of the bridge, damaging it to the point of failure and careening off of it as it fell on the train. Maybe the driver was a railfan and was too busy looking at the train going under the bridge and steered into the side of the bridge... or maybe was trying to toss his beer can into one of the train cars and got too close to the edge of the bridge and struck it.
EDIT: I see an update to the article that says the bridge was higher on the approach side and thus the truck could 'jump the gap' and land on the other side without falling in the gap.
Personally... I still doubt it!
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Reminds me of some local potholes.
It's been fun. But it isn't much fun anymore. Signing off for now.
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Yee, but I see two possible scenarios for this…either the bridge received permission to collapse from someone at the moment unknown to us, or the truck driver…..oh, wait, wrong thread, sorry….
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edblysardYee, but I see two possible scenarios for this…either the bridge received permission to collapse from someone at the moment unknown to us, or the truck driver…..oh, wait, wrong thread, sorry….
No, go ahead and continue, its just as logical as some of the other threads.
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edblysard Yee, but I see two possible scenarios for this…either the bridge received permission to collapse from someone at the moment unknown to us, or the truck driver…..oh, wait, wrong thread, sorry….
ROTFLMAO!
Norm
Wonderful Ed, but next time warn me so I'm not having a drink as I read.......
John
cx500 Wonderful Ed, but next time warn me so I'm not having a drink as I read.......
Yeah - and I've got two screens to clean off...
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We can't rush to judgement. How can we be sure the highway bridge fell on the rail line, and that it wasn't a case of the rail line rising up into the path of the highway bridge?
Thanks to Chris / CopCarSS for my avatar.
darned helium cars!......(as the county scrambles to find ANY real record of honest bridge structural inspection)
(wunnerful argument for collision rails/armoured piers and track bridge guardrails)
The Duke Boys wouldn't have left a tire track on the bridge. They would have been going too fast.
Murphy Siding We can't rush to judgement. How can we be sure the highway bridge fell on the rail line, and that it wasn't a case of the rail line rising up into the path of the highway bridge?
True, it is quite possible that the cars were constructed by a consortium of evil shippers, with no push back couplers and built to inferior specifications, so that when they contacted the bottom of the bridge, they ruptured, then fell back on the tracks, taking the bridge with them.
The other possibility that has yet to be explored it teutonic plate shift or a fault slide.
You guys are too funny. It's been a while since I snarfed coffee while reading the forums......
edblysard The other possibility that has yet to be explored it teutonic plate shift or a fault slide.
I thought that this collapse occurred over a CSX line, not Deutsche Bundesbahn.
edblysard Murphy Siding We can't rush to judgement. How can we be sure the highway bridge fell on the rail line, and that it wasn't a case of the rail line rising up into the path of the highway bridge? True, it is quite possible that the cars were constructed by a consortium of evil shippers, with no push back couplers and built to inferior specifications, so that when they contacted the bottom of the bridge, they ruptured, then fell back on the tracks, taking the bridge with them. The other possibility that has yet to be explored it teutonic plate shift or a fault slide.
Paul, you beat me to this one; I was still pounding my pillow when you posted, and when I read Houston Ed's comment, I planned to ask him what Germany had to do with southeast Georgia (that would be a rather large plate). I know he meant to write tectonic and not teutonic. (my spell checker was put together by an unlearned someone, who knows nothing of the teutons.
Johnny
Let me say that I have learned not take a mouthful of coffee (or any other liquid) before reading a new post. Ain't I smart?
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