2/28/2006: Train blown over

Undertoad · 02-28-2006, 08:24 AM

xoB via wunderground gets us this shot of a train crossing the St. Lawrence River near Montreal... when strong winds blew several cars right over.

IotD seems to enjoy engineering failures. In total, 5 cars wound up blown over; all of them were empty except for one, I guess the tank there, which contained canola oil. But this was only the start of the problem. How do you un-tip these big rail cars? one story on it.

They thought about just dropping them in the water, but figured that would take too much more work. So they decided to tip them back. They brought in cranes to do the job, but the cranes then faced a problem... wind! The first day it was too windy for the cranes to operate.

I found no stories after the 24th on it, so it seems they did manage to clean it up, about a week after the original accident.

02-28-2006, 08:24 AM	#1
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	2/28/2006: Train blown over xoB via wunderground gets us this shot of a train crossing the St. Lawrence River near Montreal... when strong winds blew several cars right over. IotD seems to enjoy engineering failures. In total, 5 cars wound up blown over; all of them were empty except for one, I guess the tank there, which contained canola oil. But this was only the start of the problem. How do you un-tip these big rail cars? one story on it. They thought about just dropping them in the water, but figured that would take too much more work. So they decided to tip them back. They brought in cranes to do the job, but the cranes then faced a problem... wind! The first day it was too windy for the cranes to operate. I found no stories after the 24th on it, so it seems they did manage to clean it up, about a week after the original accident.

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