Rail yard incident

[Dog427435]

Mike - <font color="red"> MJD </font> Sent me these shots and I had not seen them posted here -



This incident happened in the Oshawa CP Rail yard which ships out the GM vehicles.
One of the car men who attaches and detaches the car haulers, accidentally unhooked a set of train cars without having the brakes applied.
The Oshawa rail yard has a slight incline to it, so when the set of cars was unhooked from the engine it started to roll down the hill, it smashed through the stop block and then through the fence and continued into the parking lot where GM stores the new vehicles that come off the line.
Over 300 vehicles were damaged.



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[rockn69]

That was the perverbial "OH S--T"!!! http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif

[69RSZ]

Hope nobody was hurt,thats a lot of damage.

[Mopar471]

One uhh ohhh wipes out at least 10 atta boy's.

Talk about having a bad day.

[1967 Impala]

Ya That happened back last October and then after that mess a guy was killed down at the Ford Plant in Oakville,got himself between the Knuckles of the car haulers and the loco backed up

[Donutblue]

There goes their profit gained for the month -- http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif

[Dog427435]

When I worked in Hunts Point one of our buildings had a railroad siding running through our driveway, between the street and our front doors. It ran down into the market area and was in use 24/7.
We polished sheet steel in this building and at times a dolly with skids of material weighting between 2/8000# would be pushed out into the driveway to await being pushed into the other side of the building.
One night the dolly was out there, just a bit too close and the corner of a skid of steel was caught by a step rail on the side of a box car. It drug the dolly down the track with it until it hit an employee’s car parked at the curb. It pushed the car forward under a truck loaded with 30,000# of steel awaiting processing.
Hitting the truck the car stopped, but the train did not. It proceed to peel the body off the frame and ball it under the truck until it tore the truck's complete rear end off the spring perches and pushed it under the truck bed. Only at this time did the train engineer notice the drag and stop the train to see what was going on! http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif

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Ya That happened back last October and then after that mess a guy was killed down at the Ford Plant in Oakville,got himself between the Knuckles of the car haulers and the loco backed up

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Uhm. are you sure this was only last fall? This photo sequence has been floating around for some time. Take a close look at those trucks. That's the previous generation Chevy pickup, and even though they marketed it as a "classic" for a short period of time, I believe it's been gone for quite some time. My guess is that's close to four years ago.

Wayne Scraba
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[BTL]

Bet GM fixes 90% and sends them back to the dealer as NEW??

Yeah, but they'd be fixed new four year old trucks.

Wayne Scraba

[1967 Impala]

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Ya That happened back last October and then after that mess a guy was killed down at the Ford Plant in Oakville,got himself between the Knuckles of the car haulers and the loco backed up

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Uhm. are you sure this was only last fall? This photo sequence has been floating around for some time. Take a close look at those trucks. That's the previous generation Chevy pickup, and even though they marketed it as a "classic" for a short period of time, I believe it's been gone for quite some time. My guess is that's close to four years ago.

Wayne Scraba
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Well when I looked up the pictures on the net ( I have seen them before also) the one place said that the pics where taken in October of 2009 . Now that is only one source but you know the internet is never wrong http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/naughty.gif

I do know that the rail worker was killed in January of this year though.

[Keith Tedford]

Try 2006. These vehicles would be covered by insurance and the insurance company would get rid of them.

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Try 2006. These vehicles would be covered by insurance and the insurance company would get rid of them.

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Exactly Right.



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[Donutblue]

If that incident was insured and paid out by CP, then GM sold the trucks with no dealer overhead -- CP I'm sure paid a very large increase towards insurance premiums. http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif -- and I'd bet the car man for CP got promoted to an office job lol

[RichSchmidt]

I will take a 6.0 and a 2wd 4L60E off their hands.

[74NovaSS]

whoopsie http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif

[Don Berry]

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Try 2006. These vehicles would be covered by insurance and the insurance company would get rid of them.

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If any pre-delivery vehicle is involved in any kind of an accident then the vehicle must be "certified" scrap. Generally the salvage yard is required to cut the vehicle in two and prove the VIN has been destroyed - even if there is NO damage to the vehicle and only the transporter was in a minor accident. The real shame is when a trainload of new cars is involved in a minor incident and ALL the vehicles MUST be scrapped.

Too many PoS lawyers out there that would love to get a big settlement because the car or truck was "wrecked" before delivery.

[1970Bluel78]

I would lie and say a bunch of Toyota's came roaring through ...lol

[RichSchmidt]

A friend of mine works fixing damaged cars at the import terminal for BMW.They get cars that break loose in storms on the ship and rattle around until there are no straight panels left.They hang all new panels and paint them up and sell them as new.They had one car that was on the deck during a hail storm.It has over 300 small dents on the top sides.They have a paintless dent repair guy fix every single dent on the car.All damaged cars are sold as new with no report of the incedent.Back when I was in high school,BMW did donate a new car that fell off a car carrier.It was curled up like a pretzel so there was no denying that one.I saw a new car that they put a quarter panel on and you couldnt see even one seam or weld that didnt look fatory.This guy is the guy that paints a lot of our hot rods out of his house.A lot of old cars are painted in BMW colors in BASF with German printing on the labels.

So damaged cars dont always get scrapped unless the insurance company deems them totaled,and even then they dont need to be destroyed or have the VIN cut out,they are donated to technical schools around the country.My father's old boat had a 318 chrysler in it that came out of a van that was donated to our high school shop class after it fell off a car carrier.I had nothing to do with it,the shop teacher was a member of my father's boat club and the engine was in a boat that my father got the engines out of.

So like I said,I wouldnt mind taking a 6.0 and a 2WD 4L60E off their hands.

[Chevy2]

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Try 2006. These vehicles would be covered by insurance and the insurance company would get rid of them.

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If any pre-delivery vehicle is involved in any kind of an accident then the vehicle must be "certified" scrap. Generally the salvage yard is required to cut the vehicle in two and prove the VIN has been destroyed - even if there is NO damage to the vehicle and only the transporter was in a minor accident. The real shame is when a trainload of new cars is involved in a minor incident and ALL the vehicles MUST be scrapped.

Too many PoS lawyers out there that would love to get a big settlement because the car or truck was "wrecked" before delivery.

[/ QUOTE ] Delivery to where ? There were a bunch of new Dodge Challenger's that got hailed on in Omaha at the railyard real bad they fixed most of those.

[BTL]

I know of one instance when a 1978 Silver anniversary corvette's chains broke loose inside the railroad car, and it bounced around like a ping pong ball, the dealership's bodyshop repaired it and they sold it as new.

[PeteLeathersac]

Growing up in and around the Oshawa plants our High Schools were always supplied w/ lots of Damagaed in Transit GM vehicles..
Body and trim parts were often sold, given away or stolen and the vehicles turned into operable chassis...some w/ shortened WB to take up less space..

When I worked in the car business we'd often receive DIT vehicles at the dealer level and they were always fixed..
Receiving vehicles that'd already been repaired somewhere between assembly and delivery wasn't uncommon either!.
It was often a game between the shipping companies and the dealers over who'd take the jab for damage costs as if you didn't spot the damage and get it noted and signed by the delivery driver on the shipping manifest, you were on the hook!.
I still laugh when I see the transports unloading in front of dealerships...especially if it's at night!.


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