I saw something like this on TV once, on a show somewhere along the lines of "America's Stupidest People." The engineer pulled a doublestack under a bridge, stopped after a few hundred feet, and then BACKED UP! All while a large group of amazed people watch! (His face was blurred on the video.)
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| Posted by on December 22, 2004 | |
Not to be a starcastic or something, but that show you are referring as was Real TV hosted by MR. Hashad. That train you were decribing was a CN intermodal job done in Canada. They claim the cause of that accident was that the computer routed the train the wrong way.
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Just goes to show you some people aren't as stupid as you may think.
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I don't get it. Was the train not supposed to go that far down the line? Or was he supposed to take a different route?
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| Posted by mc5725 on July 11, 2005 | |
Pure genius like I've never seen it before!! I'll bet nobody else noticed the one thing I did about this photo... the B23-7. How many of these are left on BNSF? CSX has only two rebuilt versions left.
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The train was routed the wrong way. The two tracks hidden behind the train are about 3 feet lower than the three tracks you can see, and doublestacks have to use those two tracks.
BNSF has about 70 B23-7s left.
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