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Soon to be a major motion picture!

Except the tank car will be carrying rocket fuel and suspense will build to see if a fired crusty old railroad employee (that the authorities convinced to come back) can stop the runaway car before it careens around a sharp curve where an orphanage, a retirement home, a pet shelter and a toxic chemical factory are located.

Rusty

Soon to be a major motion picture!

Except the tank car will be carrying rocket fuel and suspense will build to see if a fired crusty old railroad employee (that the authorities convinced to come back) can stop the runaway car before it careens around a sharp curve where an orphanage, a retirement home, a pet shelter and a toxic chemical factory are located.

Rusty

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While this is kind of comical in some ways, it could have been a lot worse. Several years ago someone let some covered hoppers loose on the Kyle Railroad in western Kansas. They rolled onto the main, wesbound I think, and during the night they hit an eastbound train on the main, quite a few miles away. The two-man crew was found dead the next day when they did not report in. No one missed them all night.

Jeff

@mowingman posted:

While this is kind of comical in some ways, it could have been a lot worse. Several years ago someone let some covered hoppers loose on the Kyle Railroad in western Kansas. They rolled onto the main, wesbound I think, and during the night they hit an eastbound train on the main, quite a few miles away. The two-man crew was found dead the next day when they did not report in. No one missed them all night.

Jeff

You're right, Jeff.  There can be a humorous side to railroad mishaps, and usually nobody is hurt or killed.  But the worst that can happen, as described in your post, sometimes does.

And the car rolling unattended in the video is placarded, flammable, commodity code 1075, which is flammable gas.

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