This should be forwarded to all railroad employees throughout the world who load containers on flats, as it shows that all those irritating restrictions are there for a purpose and not just to make your life difficult.
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Just let the Air out of the tires and away you go!!!
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In trucking we refer to this as "delivering a bridge".
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I wonder if that sign says "warning, low clearance"...
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What I don't understand is why they would build a NEW bridge that doesn't have clearance for doublestack cars.
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This is a spur track that serves a gravel pit ONLY, the containers had been bad ordered and set out near the pit. The closer track was used to bring them in, and it has the clearance the stacks need. When they decided to take the BO'd stacks back out, they used the other track which obviously doesn't have the same clearance.
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How did the rest of the train make it under?
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Though I agree with Gregory, whoever loaded this, didn't bother to research the trains route. Very dumb mistake.
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I think the sign says,"Warning Keep Off Top of Car".
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Hugo Stone is an industrial spur that used to be a part of the Lake Erie & Pittsburgh/NYC. Abandoned by PC in 1968. The track doesn't extend very far beyond this bridge. Stone hoppers was all that went under it for decades. Why NS shoved stacks up there, I don't know.
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| Posted by Carl on July 17, 2011 | |
As an ex OTR driver for 34 years my motto was the bridge isn't too low, your load is too high
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As Homer Simpson would say, Doh!!
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I'm not sure why Norfolk Southern is taking the wrap for this when the rail car clearly says CSX(T620280).
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