I thought this was interesting in how the box cars string lined off the sharp curve.
boxcars derail in Harrisburg no injuries reported
Jack
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Whoa!... 'String line' accidents seem to be the latest....fad?...for the industry!
In mid-April this year the CSX dumped a line of cars...part of a 14,000+foot train!!!!...on a similar turn in Fostoria, Ohio. Empties in the midst of loads...a recipe, indeed.
When I saw your post title, I was sure it was at one of the turns to the Rockville Bridge. I travel rte.11 on my way to/from York meets. I always marvel at the approach curves from the west bank onto the bridge. They look like O36 in O3R parlence....but I know they're much broader than that. I would think a ?-8-? or ?-10-? steam engine of yore would have had to tread VERY lightly through those approach curves!!!!
Time to re-evaluate the economies of extra-L-O-N-G train lengths, the distribution of loads thereon, and the preparation of crews handling the same?
A quote from decades ago, Head-End Brakeman Bob Imbriani to Engineer Buck Savage: "Hey Buck! Too much gasoline, eh?"
Jack L posted:I thought this was interesting in how the box cars string lined off the sharp curve.
boxcars derail in Harrisburg no injuries reported
Jack
The "map picture" seems to have the trackage go over another line which seems to have cat poles. Am I seeing this correctly?
Hmmmmmmmmm That just happened to me on Monday, but the hand crane made clean up easier.
645 is correct, that is Amtrak's electrified line to Philly. If you go a little further north on the map you will see another y to a line west that goes past the Harrisburg Hospital and across the river to what was another y to connect to lines north into the Enola yards. At one time this was all electrified so G's could go to the Enola Yards. The cat poles are still there but the lines where removed.
