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rail burn check this out

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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, May 18, 2004 9:59 AM
QUOTE: Originally posted by csxengineer98

this happend sompleace near here...the real story behind it...is
it happend around 1999....the train was stopped at a red signal for a while....mutipule unit consist....all the units but 1 stopped loading while sitting at idle...the 3rd or 4th unit in the consist had a mulfuntion... and keep 3 wheels turning dispite the throtle being shut off.... the end result is the sweet rail burn that we are talkinga bout today...
csx engineer


I've heard of that happening before. On the old SP, we had an SD-40 that decided to turn the #2 TM suddenly backwards after running perfectly normal. [xx(]

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