Has anybody heard of this one? Apparently some maintenance (welding) was done on a bridge over the 11th and 12th and finished on the 12th at about 3:00pm. A train passed over the bridge at 6:30pm and did not notice any problems. Later however, an unloaded coal train approached the bridge and applied their emergency brakes and stopped about 46 feet from the northern end. The three NS locos and a coal car stopped on the bridge which was on fire! It is believed that slag from the welding came in contact with the plastic composite bridge deck causing it to smoulder and the first train fanned the remains.
The conductor survived with major burns by running through trailing locos and was (and I think still would be) recovering in hospital but (according to the e-mail) the conductor died when he jumped from the cab to the ground, was injured in the fall and consumed by the fire.
I got these in an e-mail and thought it was something that would hit the general interest on the forums.
I don't know where it was but they are clearly NS locos.
(I do not claim the ownership or intellectual property of these images. They belong to the original composer. Images included for illustration purposes. I hosted them because I do not know the original URL.)
The conductor survived with major burns by running through trailing locos and was (and I think still would be) recovering in hospital but (according to the e-mail) the conductor died when he jumped from the cab to the ground, was injured in the fall and consumed by the fire.
I got these in an e-mail and thought it was something that would hit the general interest on the forums.
I don't know where it was but they are clearly NS locos.
(I do not claim the ownership or intellectual property of these images. They belong to the original composer. Images included for illustration purposes. I hosted them because I do not know the original URL.)
