CSX Locomotive Catches Fire

[bbrant]

Saw this on a local news web site and thought I'd pass it along.

http://www.thepittsburghchannel.com/news/4317095/detail.html

Brian

[JoeKoh]

Interesting. any pictures?
stay safe
joe

[bbrant]

Haven't come across any pics. If I do, I'll post the link here.

Brian

[Modelcar]

....Fifty and plus years ago they worked real hard to keep a roaring fire going in a locomotive....

[bbrant]

Very true.

[tree68]

Another toaster?

QUOTE: Originally posted by Modelcar....Fifty and plus years ago they worked real hard to keep a roaring fire going in a locomotive....

Probably some drunk thought he'd help out by throwing a few logs on the fire....

[bbrant]

Wonder if csxengineer98 was playing with matches again! Darn him, he's old enough to know better. LOL

Hope everyone knows I'm JUST KIDDING!!

[espeefoamer]

Must have been a GE! Dang those campfires! I hate it when they get out of control like that[:(!].

[csxengineer98]

QUOTE: Originally posted by bbrant

Wonder if csxengineer98 was playing with matches again! Darn him, he's old enough to know better. LOL

Hope everyone knows I'm JUST KIDDING!!

hey....its not a camp fire unless it can be seen from space..loll
csx engineer

[shrek623]

Expect nothing less. CSX, the manufacturer of the rusty metal flamethrower.[:D]

Shrek

[Anonymous]

Perhaps they finally made the engine block too puny to hold the combustion. You can only cut so much in a effort to save money.

Cheers.

[Anonymous]

i thought CSXT stood for Cook Stove Xstenguisher [:D]

[mudchicken]

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[BaltACD]

Eng 7313 was the culprit account a broken fuel line between the fuel pump and the fuel injectors....sprayed fuel all over the place. The engine is a narrow cab GE Dash-8.

Like it or not, all things mechanical fail from time to time. Sometimes those failures end up in a fire. Personally, I pass the remanents of more automobile fires along the highways and byways that I travel, than I have come across locomotive fires in my 40 years of railroad employment. It all falls under the category of DO DO Happens!