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I am curious as to if there are any rules or procedures that a shortline or railroad has to go by to operate a section of track, not industrial but actual track used to deliver cars to numerous customers. I ask because a new carrier in our town tried to use a trackmobile to move 2 cars (loaded) one a centerbeam, the other a box car up a rather steep grade. The crew lost control of the cars and the trackmobile and the 2 cars ended up flying (doing about 30-40 mph) threw 7 unprotected crossings in an area with heavily traveled streets to end up smashing into 3 parked train cars parked at the end, the result was derailment of 3 cars, twisting the rail and ultimately taking this section of rail out for not sure for how long, 1 customer is now captive with cars as well as the 5 cars to be delivered. So if any of you guys know what the requirements are to operate I would be thankful. As a side note, this railroad does have a switcher but for some reason isn't using it. Heres a recreation of what that little trackmobile looked like flying by [;)] [img]http://www.wpgrr.com/CIRY/wind.jpg[/img] I do have actual pictures of this derailment Thanks
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