dead cows on tracks

[upchuck]

ANY MORE INFO ON THE OUTCOME?

[upchuck]

CHECK OUT THIS LINK ABOUT DEAD COWS ON TRACKS CONSPIRACY:
www.depotnews.com/BNSF/030805BNSFa.htm

[mersenne6]

There are a number of first person accounts about hitting a cow on the track back in the days of steam. In the book Forty Years a Locomotive Engineer - about railroading in the 1800's - the author mentioned that when a cow was blocking the track the practice of his road was to speed up and hit the animal as hard as possible in order to throw it clear. He recounted one evening when he did this. The cow was catapulted through the telegraph window of the adjacent station. He wondered about the reaction the next morning when the station agent arrived and discovered several hundred pounds of cow in the middle of his office.

[dekemd]

QUOTE: Originally posted by coborn35

Back in the days of cattle cars, I wonder if a train ever derailed the cattle cars.........................................?

Yes they did! At the bottom of the NS line coming down Saluda mountian is a deep cut. I can't remember the year but it was in the steam days, a Southern train ran away down the mountian and derailed in the curve in the cut. There was a cattle car on the train and over a hundred head of cattle were killed. Ever since, it's been called Slaughterpen Cut.

[upchuck]

I guess you could say he was playing chicken...

[espeefoamer]

QUOTE: Originally posted by JOdom

The next little town up the road from my hometown has a chicken-processing plant, and the ex-SAL Savannah, GA to Montgomery AL line. The catch crews catch the chickens in the grower houses at night, put them in cages and load them on flatbed 18-wheelers so the chickens can be waiting at the processing plant when the first shift comes to work. Early one morning many years ago a flatbed driver was crossing the RR on the way to the plant and for whatever reason didn't stop for an oncoming train. You guessed it, train obliterated the flatbed trailer and scattered chickens both in and out of cages over a considerable area. The cleanup crew never did catch all the chickens; the local cats ate well for a few days.

Meow meow,did someone say [dinner]?

[SALfan]

The next little town up the road from my hometown has a chicken-processing plant, and the ex-SAL Savannah, GA to Montgomery AL line. The catch crews catch the chickens in the grower houses at night, put them in cages and load them on flatbed 18-wheelers so the chickens can be waiting at the processing plant when the first shift comes to work. Early one morning many years ago a flatbed driver was crossing the RR on the way to the plant and for whatever reason didn't stop for an oncoming train. You guessed it, train obliterated the flatbed trailer and scattered chickens both in and out of cages over a considerable area. The cleanup crew never did catch all the chickens; the local cats ate well for a few days.

[upchuck]

Could be....Possibly out of revenge...

[Anonymous]

wow....

[coborn35]

Back in the days of cattle cars, I wonder if a train ever derailed the cattle cars.........................................?

[Tharmeni]

I was on a Monon E unit that took out not just a pig, but the entire barn!! The farmer near Ellettsville, Indiana, was using a tractor to move his pig barn from one field to another. He had low wheels on a metal frame under it and it hung up on the crossing and boy, did we do a job on it! The bigs were in another truck and they were OK, but very homeless.

[upchuck]

The BBC reported on 7/7/05 that a passenger train in North Yorkshire derailed
when hitting cows on tracks at a level crossing. Any other info?

[upchuck]

If the trucks in Australia hit all that stuff, the loco's must look like Merle Olsens' Wild Kingdom on rails.

[tree68]

QUOTE: Originally posted by upchuck

Have stampeding buffalo herds ever taken on a steam loco...and won?

Considering the relative size of early steam locomotives and buffalo, I'd say they probably did. In fact, seems like I recall that they did. And a stampeding herd of several hundred buffalo would probably overwhelm an entire train...

[Anonymous]

While slightly off the topic...

I drive road trains here in Australia, and road kill is simply a way of life. Stations (or ranches I suppose you'd call 'em) can measure into the millions of acres, so it's just not financially viable to fence the whole bloody lot! As a result, nearly all heavy vehicles in Australia are fitted with bull bars, to "absorb" some of the impact, and to try to protect the radiator and engine so the vehicle will still run. When it's 200 km to the next road house, you don't want to be stuck in the middle of nowhere with a written off vehicle!

But I've seen road kill in the form of donkeys, cows, sheep and camels(the absolute worst - the bonnet of the truck takes out the legs - so where does the body go? Straight through the windscreen). But the most common roadkill would have to be kangaroos. With estimates of over 50 million kangaroos in Australia, the amount of dead kangaroos is absolutely shocking at times. My worst night on the road saw over 60 kangaroos bounce off the front of my truck. And then the eagles come down to feast on the carcasses. Not good.

Sorry to ruin anybodies appetite![xx(][xx(]

[upchuck]

Have stampeding buffalo herds ever taken on a steam loco...and won?

[Modelcar]

....Or walk on the track....and even purposely jump in front of them...Remember that post several weeks ago with that person jumping on the tracks in front of a fast oncoming train and just by the skin of his teeth did mangage to live through it...!!

[Mookie]

No more stupid than people who run into the side of them....[:-,]

[coborn35]

Well, its not a cow, but..........................
One time when i was riding a North Shore Scenic Railroad train, the engineer told me that deer frequently jump against the side of the locomotive. The Side!!!
stupid animal......

[Sterling1]

QUOTE: Originally posted by trainman2244

QUOTE: Originally posted by upchuck

what happens when a gp9 hits one?

Heres what a racecar does to a rabbit at 160MPH
http://www.funny-games.biz/videos/14-rabbit-explosion.html

Minced rabbit . . .

Matt

[Sterling1]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Mookie

Hmmm - a future stand up comic in the making.

Not when nursing a howling jawbone with some blue ice . . .

Matt

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by upchuck

what happens when a gp9 hits one?

Heres what a racecar does to a rabbit at 160MPH
http://www.funny-games.biz/videos/14-rabbit-explosion.html

[AlcoRS11Nut]

as the commericals say............

"BEEF...........ITS WHATS FOR DINNER"

[Anonymous]

Oh, almost forgot.SDR North. Is there a title for that picture? How about " The wife's never going to buy this excuse for coming home late!" I saved the photo for a buddy who is big into hunting bighorns.

[Anonymous]

Somewhat off topic, but yet similar. Used to have a Honda 1000 for commute to work, came home one night, crossed RR tracks. Train had exploded a deer. Various parts (of deer) all over the road. Almost laid bike down. The four exhaust pipes came out right behind front tire. Made my way home after checking pants. The neighbors Rotwieller ( which was a constant source of barking, growling, I'm a big bad***routine) came running over and did his usual routine, which included watering my tires. He smelled something cooking on the exhaust headers and it must have smelled good. Mind you the bike had only been shut off for ten seconds. One lick/sizzle was all it took. The howling I heard as I walked to the house was very....satisfying. Needless to say my tires never got watered again!!!! Sometimes there is a God. Willy

[zardoz]

[dinner]

[Mookie]

Hmmm - a future stand up comic in the making.

Have heard tales of a bull being hit, pigs on the rails and a whole truck load of hogs being hit. Gives new meaning to a hood ornament, I guess.

Moo.....

[Sterling1]

Mookie-Cookie-Monster . . .

Come to . . . me . . . !!!

[Sterling1]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Sterling1

QUOTE: Originally posted by drephpe

Pardon if I horn in, but this thread really mooves me.

Moo-Moo-Mookie

I'm sorry but if you want this gone please tell me and I'll remove it

Great bovine splattered all over my P42 windshield . . . I can't see!!!

I saw a pair of P42s yesterday . . . pacing them actually on congested I-4

Do I hear a Moo-Kissimmee ???

I live near Kissimmee, cow country . . . even near hotels and Disney

My high school bus driver refered to the Silver Spurs Arena as "Cow Palace"

That's enough bovine amusements . . .

Matt

[Sterling1]

QUOTE: Originally posted by drephpe

Pardon if I horn in, but this thread really mooves me.

Moo-Moo-Mookie

I'm sorry but if you want this gone please tell me and I'll remove it

Great bovine splattered all over my P42 windshield . . . I can't see!!!