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#11 User is offline   Shay 5 

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Posted 31 May 2012 - 11:39 AM

Here is one. It don't look too pretty.http://www.msrlha.org/p-other-rr-1/slides/PP%20Other-006s.jpg

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Posted 31 May 2012 - 01:17 PM

At the suggestion of several forum members I am deleting the contents of this post. Elvas Tower deserves better. :sign_sorry:

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Posted 31 May 2012 - 04:09 PM

Shame on you! This is a PG forum! :acute: Well, other then Tim's occasional forays into famous starlets legs... :whistling: :naughty: :rotfl:

Why am I not surprised that Shay5 immediately posted a wrecked shay? :lol2: Anyway, how on earth did that poor critter manage to roll belly-up onto it's track? Wow!

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Posted 31 May 2012 - 04:36 PM

HEHE!!! :whistling: I just had to do that. :naughty: When your on a mountain, riding on very loosely made track, anything can happen. Most of the time, it ain't pretty. Yeah, com on, that just ain't right.:acute:

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Posted 31 May 2012 - 08:21 PM

Thank you Fred this is a family friendly thread..even tho it is a bit scary....

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Posted 31 May 2012 - 10:27 PM

Here's the Yreka Western's version of the famous wreck of the engine through the station. However this was caused when one of the YW's business cars and caboose got away smashed through the front doors of the shop and ran into No.20 (an ex-Southern Pacific SW-8) and sent her through the back wall. The incident happened on a Friday night and the woman who lived in a house on property behind the shop called the police complaining that the railroad was trying to drive the train through her house. This was around August of 1980.

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Posted 01 June 2012 - 07:28 AM

hey they got a new window now :whistling: nice one.

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Posted 01 June 2012 - 08:29 AM

I have a google news alert that informs me daily of train accidents. This morning one of the headlines said “Four Killed in UP Train Accident”. After clicking on the article I found out that UP meant Uttar Pradesh, a Provence in India. The only reason I don't delete this news alert is that once or twice a week there will be an account of an historic accident in the US or abroad. The link below is just one example of what you will find.

http://www.guardian....n?newsfeed=true

If you are interested go to google news and set up an alert for train crash OR accident OR collision. You will have to use the advanced search and DON'T use the word "wreck" or you will get a bunch of articles with no relation to trains. Have fun. :ko2:

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Posted 01 June 2012 - 11:35 AM

View PostBanjoMan, on 31 May 2012 - 10:27 PM, said:

...The incident happened on a Friday night and the woman who lived in a house on property behind the shop called the police complaining that the railroad was trying to drive the train through her house.


yup, that sounds about right :ko2:

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Posted 01 June 2012 - 11:38 AM

View PostBanjoMan, on 31 May 2012 - 10:27 PM, said:

Here's the Yreka Western's version of the famous wreck of the engine through the station. However this was caused when one of the YW's business cars and caboose got away smashed through the front doors of the shop and ran into No.20 (an ex-Southern Pacific SW-8) and sent her through the back wall. The incident happened on a Friday night and the woman who lived in a house on property behind the shop called the police complaining that the railroad was trying to drive the train through her house. This was around August of 1980.

HAHA. :ko2: That's funny. Them cars must have been really moving if they sent the locomotive through the wall.
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