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jcdammeyer

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Saw this posting on facebook. Couldn't resist. Caption was running in place.
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David_R8 said:
Sure like to see how they got it out of those 'ruts'!
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Crane. a big one. Both major railroads have them. The big cost is the loss of the line until the train can be moved. They usually back the train up from the damaged point when these things happen ... If a spur, they cannot get the train out until the track is clear and replaced.

the poor engineer prolly lost his job. :eek:
 
Dabbler said:
Crane. a big one. Both major railroads have them. The big cost is the loss of the line until the train can be moved. They usually back the train up from the damaged point when these things happen ... If a spur, they cannot get the train out until the track is clear and replaced.

the poor engineer prolly lost his job. :eek:
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Yup expensive crane... or at least that's how they used to do it with loaded grain cars that weighed 250000lbs. I unfortunately know first hand from a long time ago when I worked in a grain elevator. As an elevator agent we used to move grain cars along the rail line used both winches and gravity to move them but used hand operated brakes on the cars to stop them. You had to be carefull not to get them going to fast and then start stopping them well in advance. They had a little derailer on the tracks to purposely throw the cars off the track before they got on the main line where a collision could occur. It was a bad day when a car jumped the tracks because you weren't careful enough. The grain company got charged for the expense of the crew and crane of putting the car back on the track. I did it once and was told it was not something anyone wanted to do a second time.
 
DPittman said:
Yup expensive crane... or at least that's how they used to do it with loaded grain cars that weighed 250000lbs. I unfortunately know first hand from a long time ago when I worked in a grain elevator. As an elevator agent we used to move grain cars along the rail line used both winches and gravity to move them but used hand operated brakes on the cars to stop them. You had to be carefull not to get them going to fast and then start stopping them well in advance. They had a little derailer on the tracks to purposely throw the cars off the track before they got on the main line where a collision could occur. It was a bad day when a car jumped the tracks because you weren't careful enough. The grain company got charged for the expense of the crew and crane of putting the car back on the track. I did it once and was told it was not something anyone wanted to do a second time.
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I too worked at a grain elevator, at least for a few summers. My dad used a small farm tractor to shunt the grain hoppers down the siding. He also had an old tool to manually bump cars a short distance. Something like the one shown below:

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Archimedes was on to something!

Craig
 
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