| Part 1 - Photos by Robert Westover (USA) | ||
| May 20,
2013: The latest (but
not the greatest)... happened in the wee hours of the morning (this
morning), no injuries reported and the word as to the cause is the engineer
calling the dispatcher and admitting that he'd run a red. :/ Feel sorry for
the guy, and more than this I'm very thankful no one was injured. It could
have been very bad... The wreck location is just above Tunnel No. 10 at Burton's Curve (Marcel MP 353). |
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| - 1296 | close up of Auto Max - 1297 | - 1299 |
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| BNSF 7337 - 1318 | the coupler is broken - 1319 | - 1298 |
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| UP 5477 - 1320 | damaged front end - 1321 | - 1323 |
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| - 1324 | how to unload cars the . . . - 1331 | . . . unconventional way !! - 1332 |
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| Photos 1331-1335: At the wreck site... the crew is unloading the cars from the autorack cars -- they backed a steel plate up to the back end of the opened autocarrier and drove the car out and onto the steel plate -- then they blocked the rear end with a couple of wood beams and proceeded to pull away from the autorack and set the vehicle down onto the ground where a person would climb in, start the car up and move it over to a staging area on former Burton's property. | ||
| Photos copyright by Robert Westover, Text by Carol Westover | ||
