http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...-landslide-1.2825969
Dan
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Very unfortunate, indeed.
The engineer was confirmed dead today. Its a very remote line with no connections to other lines as far as I know. It hauls iron-ore down to the St. Lawrence River.
We don't all make it to retirement.
Presume this was the Quebec, North Shore & Labrador Ry? If so, one of the last major railroad construction projects in North America, begun around 1957. Was the derailed engine leading the train? Looks like a single unit.......for a 240 car train? (presume distributed power)
Very unfortunate.
Originally Posted by mark s:
Presume this was the Quebec, North Shore & Labrador Ry? If so, one of the last major railroad construction projects in North America, begun around 1957. Was the derailed engine leading the train? Looks like a single unit.......for a 240 car train? (presume distributed power)
The news report says there were three locomotives on the train. I have a feeling that the other two units are under water in the lake.
Back in the early 1980's BC Rail had a train hit a slide along a lake. The two locomotives, an M630 and a C425, went into the lake. They retrieved the C425, but the M630 sat at the bottom of the lake for about 20 years, until a salvage company finally retrieved it for scrap value.
Stuart
Originally Posted by Stuart:
Originally Posted by mark s
The news report says there were three locomotives on the train. I have a feeling that the other two units are under water in the lake.
Stuart
It looks like the top rear corner of a locomotive hood is just sticking out of the water behind the loco on the embankment. Had to be horrific for the engineer.
One of the consequences of going "Microwave" and taking out signal lines & poles is that with slides like this, the signal lines will be the first things to go and turn the signals red if not black them out. Hard to tell from these photos if there were signal poles on this line.
