NuclearErick Posted March 8, 2013 Share Posted March 8, 2013 only in Brazil u guys judge :blink: :angry2: PS: im Brazilian 3 Link to comment
bikkuri bahn Posted March 8, 2013 Share Posted March 8, 2013 (edited) I had a bad feeling at the beginning when I saw they were using the locomotives to drag the derailed stock at that angle... Edited March 8, 2013 by bikkuri bahn Link to comment
miyakoji Posted March 8, 2013 Share Posted March 8, 2013 Did the rail roll over? Was that what caused the first derailment? Link to comment
CaptOblivious Posted March 8, 2013 Share Posted March 8, 2013 Just simple physics, really. Any fool who understands how rails work would have seen that coming! *facepalm* Link to comment
cteno4 Posted March 8, 2013 Share Posted March 8, 2013 You expect that at least the engineer would have some idea how bad an idea that was or perhaps someone on the wrecking crew was a civil engineer maybe that would tell them how little there is holding the tracks to the side? ive never seen stock dragged around by locos before. always been big dozers or large cranes. dumb dumb dumb dumb... wait until westfalen sees this... jeff 1 Link to comment
miyakoji Posted March 8, 2013 Share Posted March 8, 2013 wait until westfalen sees this :laughing4: Link to comment
Nick_Burman Posted March 9, 2013 Share Posted March 9, 2013 You can rerail a loco using other locos as raising power, but you need to use a block-and-tacke outfit to pull the derailed loco out. Plus the appropriate safety precautions. Obviously they did not do that. I once saw a BC Rail institutional film where they showed how they cleared a wreck using locomotives and block-and-tackle outfit, very successfully. In Fawcett's "Railway of the Andes", the author recalls an episode on the Central of Peru where a steam crane, sent to rerail a locomotive, found itself derailed...on top of the loco it was meant to salvage! They had to borrow a crane from the Cerro de Pasco Corporation to right up the crane, before they could get on with the wreck... Cheers NB Link to comment
westfalen Posted March 9, 2013 Share Posted March 9, 2013 Maybe the wrecking crew were on overtime and trying to stretch things out a bit. The original derailment must have been something to see as well, I'd always thought those second hand standard gauge U.S. locos looked a bit unstable on the narrow gauge. Link to comment
cteno4 Posted March 9, 2013 Share Posted March 9, 2013 actually how to create more of a wreck! jeff Link to comment
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