I'm still around Watash but I just got in from a trip and I'm bushed. Checking to see what's going on. Did you and Art take over the store while I was out? I can't believe nobody else has got a story to tell. Come on people, I need entertainment too ya know.
Any one know anything about them having to re-inspect all the couplers on the new Acela trains? Seems the knuckle pins vibrate out at high speed. I always liked my coaster wagon. But coasting on a train at that speed? Everybody drag your feet!! ------------------ Watash
I don't know anything about Acela's but you did remind me of my favorite Lehigh story. When Sayre was a busy place, one of the local jobs used to spot coal hoppers on a steep trestle up the hill from the yard for a local vendor. Once they were spotted, the guys from the plant would move the cars around by letting the handbrakes off and rolling the cars downhill a bit. As could be expected, one of them let the brake off all the way and by the time he realized what was happening, the loaded car was scooting down the hill into the yard. For some reason, the poor coal-spotter rode the thing (screaming) all the way down rather than bail off. As it turned out, the switches were all lined into a stub track that ended right next to the yard office parking lot. A lot that was full of crew's cars. The hapless rider finally jumped off just before impact as the load rammed over the bumping block and ate up the line of cars parked in the lot. Luckily, no one was hurt but the cars were demolished. The only casualty was an engineer who came out to stand next to the wreckage of his (ex)new baby blue Cadillac shaking his head and throwing up. They say he was never the same. Oops, there's the phone. Yup, it's a caller looking for me. Here we go again.
