RMweb Gold Enterprisingwestern Posted October 18, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 18, 2020 Mike. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
enginelane Posted October 18, 2020 Share Posted October 18, 2020 Wow! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold ikcdab Posted October 18, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 18, 2020 I can understand a lorry going under a low bridge. But how does this happen when railway stock ans structures are built to a loading gauge? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Oldddudders Posted October 18, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 18, 2020 2 minutes ago, ikcdab said: I can understand a lorry going under a low bridge. But how does this happen when railway stock ans structures are built to a loading gauge? Many decades ago, US railroads started building freight cars with excess height. The 'extra bit' was marked on the car ends with white paint for visibility. No doubt many more cars have now been built to the higher standard, and most mainlines are gauge-cleared for that. But some lines aren't, and someone is supposed to know. Unlike the roads, it may not be the driver's responsibility. 5 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Enterprisingwestern Posted October 18, 2020 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted October 18, 2020 2 hours ago, Oldddudders said: Many decades ago, US railroads started building freight cars with excess height. The 'extra bit' was marked on the car ends with white paint for visibility. No doubt many more cars have now been built to the higher standard, and most mainlines are gauge-cleared for that. But some lines aren't, and someone is supposed to know. Unlike the roads, it may not be the driver's responsibility. With that bit of extra knowledge, looking at the film again, the white end bit would have cleared the bridge. Mike. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dave1905 Posted October 18, 2020 Share Posted October 18, 2020 In the 1800's there were lots of accidents with trains hitting bridges and tunnels and sideswiping adjacent tracks as cars and engines got wider and taller. Several tunnels on my prototype were changed from double track to single track to accommodate taller cars. Bridges and tunnels may have been made 100 years ago. It may be that that bridge is in a yard, so the TRAIN clearance process wouldn't have looked at it and in the past auto rack business was separated in dedicated trains, never passing through yards. When the traffic dropped due to COVID and the tariffs, some dedicated auto trains went away as a cost saving measure and auto racks were carried on regular manifest trains, so auto racks went into the yard instead of bypassing the yard on the main. I had a similar thing happen on one of my territories. Railroad A and Railroad B had parallel tracks into a city next to each other. The railroads merged and what was two separate mains, now became one "double track" main. Unfortunately under one bridge Railroad B was 6 inches higher than railroad A and the Railroad A dispatcher put a train with double stacks on the "other" main and sheared the top off several containers. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pat141 Posted October 18, 2020 Share Posted October 18, 2020 I think the driver should know better and stop to see what the clearance is like before doing all that damage, that will cost somebody $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium boxbrownie Posted October 18, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 18, 2020 3 minutes ago, pat141 said: I think the driver should know better and stop to see what the clearance is like before doing all that damage, that will cost somebody $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ Or the signalman? It looks like an “off the main” line, so could have been diversionary or through a yard under an older bridge, it’ll be fine, those yanks live convertables Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mdvle Posted October 18, 2020 Share Posted October 18, 2020 So the first clue is that at the beginning of the video the autorack in frame has already had the top removed, and thus is going under the bridge for a 2nd (3rd, etc.) time. Going to the actual YouTube page, in the comments it is mentioned as happening about a month ago in Memphis TN, which a search brings up some more details. Including this link to Google Maps showing the location, which is a dead end spur to an oil facility: https://goo.gl/maps/nC1MWHqpbPHy8XPS9 I would agree with Dave - current situations meant the autoracks were on a train that normally didn't have autoracks, and thus the presumed switching never had to worry about excess height equipment at that location before. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve1 Posted October 18, 2020 Share Posted October 18, 2020 This is, I believe, the third time this video has been on... steve 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium boxbrownie Posted October 18, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 18, 2020 11 minutes ago, steve1 said: This is, I believe, the third time this video has been on... steve Is that lucky then? 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Enterprisingwestern Posted October 18, 2020 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted October 18, 2020 47 minutes ago, steve1 said: This is, I believe, the third time this video has been on... steve In a month? I searched, honest! Mike. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve1 Posted October 18, 2020 Share Posted October 18, 2020 It's earlier in the USA thread by me and under Bridge Strikes elsewhere. steve 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gordon A Posted October 18, 2020 Share Posted October 18, 2020 The Yanks should make smaller cars. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Regularity Posted October 18, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 18, 2020 2 hours ago, steve1 said: It's earlier in the USA thread by me and under Bridge Strikes elsewhere. steve Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Regularity Posted October 18, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 18, 2020 2 hours ago, Gordon A said: The Yanks should make smaller cars. As it’s in Tennessee, they aren’t Yankees... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dave1905 Posted October 19, 2020 Share Posted October 19, 2020 Looking at the Google map view it looks like the cars were in a switching move, since there is a auto rack loading/unloading ramp adjacent to the facility. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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