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.

[Dog427435]

[rockn69]

That was the perverbial "OH S--T"!!!

[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 --

[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!

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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

[BTL]

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