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<blockquote data-quote="Kias" data-source="post: 336238" data-attributes="member: 9496"><p>Dateline, July 3rd 2014.</p><p></p><p>8:32 am, approximately one country block from where I was sitting at work, the unthinkable became thinkable. 16 cars derailed, 14 completely off the tracks. No one was sitting in their car at the crossing, no one was hurt, and no damage (other than railroad property, a few phone poles, and the county maintained roads). Everything fell to the south side of the track. See what would've happened if they fell to the north? There's actually residential housing almost kissing those track a little to the right of the first photo.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH]103103[/ATTACH][ATTACH]103104[/ATTACH][ATTACH]103105[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>Some thirty five miles west and about 1500 feet south of this track sits my house. (It's where I get all those train pics I take) That, somehow, made me the resident expert on all things train related that day at work. <Shrug> </p><p></p><p>Everybody kept asking me what was going to happen. Like I work for Norfolk Southern...</p><p></p><p>I told them, Well... This is the main track in Northwest Ohio. It goes from Toledo to Chicago and all points beyond. Right now there's billions of dollars of goods and merchandise that aren't moving. What they'll do is push everything off the track, fix the rails, and the trains will start to move again. In the meantime, they'll probably reroute the trains through Michigan. Everything else is irrelevant. Money talks. </p><p></p><p>It was an eerily quiet night at home. July 4th was also creepy sounding. Come July 5th though. Trains every 15 minutes, like clockwork! I knew they had the section open again.</p><p></p><p>Fast forward almost a month... Their toys are still on the side of the track.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]103117[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]103118[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]103119[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]103120[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>This whole thing also strengthened my theory that stopping back 10 or 20 feet from the crossing is not going to save you. No, not one bit. Train cars are much much bigger when they're not on the tracks!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Kias, post: 336238, member: 9496"] Dateline, July 3rd 2014. 8:32 am, approximately one country block from where I was sitting at work, the unthinkable became thinkable. 16 cars derailed, 14 completely off the tracks. No one was sitting in their car at the crossing, no one was hurt, and no damage (other than railroad property, a few phone poles, and the county maintained roads). Everything fell to the south side of the track. See what would've happened if they fell to the north? There's actually residential housing almost kissing those track a little to the right of the first photo. [ATTACH=CONFIG]103103._xfImport[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]103104._xfImport[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]103105._xfImport[/ATTACH] Some thirty five miles west and about 1500 feet south of this track sits my house. (It's where I get all those train pics I take) That, somehow, made me the resident expert on all things train related that day at work. <Shrug> Everybody kept asking me what was going to happen. Like I work for Norfolk Southern... I told them, Well... This is the main track in Northwest Ohio. It goes from Toledo to Chicago and all points beyond. Right now there's billions of dollars of goods and merchandise that aren't moving. What they'll do is push everything off the track, fix the rails, and the trains will start to move again. In the meantime, they'll probably reroute the trains through Michigan. Everything else is irrelevant. Money talks. It was an eerily quiet night at home. July 4th was also creepy sounding. Come July 5th though. Trains every 15 minutes, like clockwork! I knew they had the section open again. Fast forward almost a month... Their toys are still on the side of the track. [ATTACH type="full" width="60%"]103117._xfImport[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full" width="60%"]103118._xfImport[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full" width="60%"]103119._xfImport[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full" width="60%"]103120._xfImport[/ATTACH] This whole thing also strengthened my theory that stopping back 10 or 20 feet from the crossing is not going to save you. No, not one bit. Train cars are much much bigger when they're not on the tracks! [/QUOTE]
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