Accident waiting to happen on CSX

[~Z~]

Saw these clips on another site...like these videos this guy has on the page, but this is a bit scary...

One taken 01/05/06, one on 01/10/06

http://www.trainweb.org/oaksmodelrr/Vid ... 0.B738.mpg

http://www.trainweb.org/oaksmodelrr/Vid ... 5.B738.mpg

Main webpage is: http://www.trainweb.org/oaksmodelrr/Video/Index.html

[Mr. Tops]

Hey, looks like Wyoming Yard! LOL...

[chessiefan1980]

HOLY crap!! That is NOT COOL...If the bar were to snap or the nuts to come loose, the train would for sure derail right off and tip over...this is nuts...Chessie System would have never let it happen..but CSX has to let it happen..

[~Z~]

Update from the man who video taped this: oaksmodelrr

No longer an accident waiting to happen

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Just visited the site today and the dip has been repaired. Did not get an chance to see a train cross it, will try tomorrow, but it looked much better. They have also added the switch and will be ballasting and tamping for a couple of days to finish. Then they can tackle the out of gauge condition and the torn up rail on the wye. Because the wye is OOS, today the crew took the pair of SD40-2's bracketing one box car down to Norristown and back to turn it, and it only cost CSX 3+ hours of time for the three man crew, plus an extra day's pay each because Norristown is out of their limits.