I’ll be taking a few days off, back on Wednesday after a nice little vacation. I’ll possibly get a few things posted to go live while I’m gone, but I make no promises. In any case, have a great weekend and I’ll catch everyone next week!
Driving home today from a family 4th of July barbecue, we came across an amazing site.
A train headed east over 84th Street had some sort of accident, and four of the cars had dumped all or part of their coal loads out onto the surrounding grass. One local train enthusiast stopped in a parking lot told us that each of those cars carries 100,000 pounds of coal. Each one. So there’s somewhere between three and four hundred thousand pounds of coal dumped out in the area now.
We didn’t stay long enough to see how they’d go about cleaning it all up, but I got some great photos of the whole ordeal. I’ve included them after the jump for those who are interested.
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(image taken from the World Herald)
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