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[Spridgets] CSX Wreck at Clinchco, Virginia - No LBC

Subject: [Spridgets] CSX Wreck at Clinchco, Virginia - No LBC
From: abcoz at hky.com (Bud Osbourne)
Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2011 10:06:28 -0500
References: <421560.78353.qm@web180614.mail.sp1.yahoo.com>
Mike,
Please send the link to my email address.  Thanks!
I wonder if anyone has anything on a train wreck that occurred about 20
years ago, along the Upper Mississippi River when a big-horsepower towboat,
shoving against a strong current, washed the river bank out from under the
locomotives of a Burlington Northern freight?   In years past, lower
horsepower towboats were favored above St. Louis because big horsepower
isn't of much use in the shallow waters of the Upper.  However, some people
never learn and a 6,000 horsepower towboat was operating in an area where
3200 horsepower would have sufficed (it's actually not as simple as that,
but it'll do for now).
I grew up in the river transportation industry (still making a living in
that area), but my grandfather designed and patented "the" (I know there
were probably more than one) power reverse gear for steam locomotives and
also patented improvements in the Westinghouse air brake system (which he
later sold to Westinghouse) and my father and I were into model railroading.
Although I no longer have the time for model railroading, I'm still
fascinated by railroading..............even if I am a hard-core "river rat".
Bud Osbourne

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From: spridgets-bounces at autox.team.net
[mailto:spridgets-bounces at autox.team.net] On Behalf Of Michael MacLean
Sent: Monday, January 31, 2011 7:40 PM
To: spridgets at autox.team.net
Subject: [Spridgets] CSX Wreck at Clinchco, Virginia - No LBC

> Check out this train wreck.............One of my railroad friends sent 
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to me. Everyone loves to see a train wreck!
Mike MacLean
60 Sprite
56 BN2
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> ....here's some shots of last week's derailment (Wednesday morning) of 
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Cedar Bay (Fla) unit train at MP 19.6, Clinchco, Virginia on the former
Clinchfield, now known as the Kingsport Subdivision.  Train was southbound
between two tunnels when it encountered a rockslide that came down when the
ambient temperature got around 45 degrees, creating a thaw which brought the
rocks down.  Slide was as high as the front walkway on engine 105 which was
lifted airborne, with the rest of the train pushing it sideways. Trailing
unit
439 turned over and laid over on its side right in the middle of Squirrel
Camp Creek with the front nearly buried in coal from the 5 loaded 120 ton
coal cars which derailed behind the consist.  Engineer and conductor were
slightly injured with some cuts and bruises.  The mainframe on 439 is warped
and it will be cut up and scrapped in place next week.

               

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