It's a sad day in BC today:
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Condolences to the families that lost their lives, but I live in Ohio, and didn't realize that there were still any logging trains in regular service in North America. Are there others?
Yes, a tough way to make a living, even with today's level of mechanisation. I don't know how many operations are out there. I would think it's a Western North America thing these days; in this case Vancouver Island.
I recall some articles on logging roads still running in the 70s in Washington and Northern California, but that's just my fuzzy memory. I did a search and found one that only shut down in 2015:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHj_NK-UP7Y
Tommy posted:The railways locomotives have three headlights on each end. The line is 56 miles long.
And your point is??????
The "wreck" was actually a run-a-way log train that had broken loose from the re-load facility, after a cable broke. There were NO LOCOMOTIVES on the run-a-way cars!
wow somebody seems angry
At the section of track where the accident occurred, the rail cars are not connected to train engines, Rushton said in an interview. The area is a transfer zone where the loaded rail cars pass through before being connected to locomotives and moved to sawmills elsewhere, he said.
"Somehow the cars got away and ran down the track, and, of course, it's downhill," said Rushton, a director of the Regional District of Mount Waddington. "It's all gravity feed. They ended up right in behind our community here. It's amazing there wasn't more damage done."
Rushton said a backhoe loader, a speeder car and the workers were on the track when the accident occurred. A speeder car is a rail vehicle used to transport workers on rail tracks.
The train is operated by Western Forest Products, one of the area's major employers.
So sad... It's very easy to second guess how this could happen but a simple derail or a switch lined to no where on the downgrade side may have prevented this.
Three headlights on what? The last Heislers working? Naw..No such luck... Cancel the trip....So what engines do they use?
colorado hirailer posted:Three headlights on what? The last Heislers working? Naw..No such luck... Cancel the trip....So what engines do they use?
Several Englewood Railway videos are posted on Youtube. I think this is the most recent one. Dynamic-braked SW1200 locomotives are mentioned, and one owner had excursion steam trips.
That is probably helpful for anybody that uses "YouTube". The steam comment is interesting. Thanks.
