Covered Hoppers

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Harry,

    Was anything done to the carman responsible for this? Seems like someone would have a case!

Walt Gay
ex-SCL car knocker at Collier shop
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  Sent: Sunday, March 26, 2006 7:27 AM
  Subject: Re: Covered Hoppers


  Jeff:
  Certainly it's been twenty years ago (or more), but there was an
  incident at Richmond involving a garbage car billed to Amelia.
  NS received the car from CSX at Richmond and took it to Belle
  Isle for classification.  The car was kicked into a track and that's
  when the yard crew discovered it didn't have hand brakes.   A crew
  member boarded the car as it ran out the east end of the yard and
  across the James River.  The brakeman determined that the car
  had no hand brake and jumped off on the Richmond-side of the river.
  The City of Richmond was testing a flood gate which the line to 
  West Point passes through.  They'd notified the yardmaster at
  Belle Isle that the gate was being tested and would be closed.  The
  runaway car hit the gate, damaged several City of Richmond vehicles,
  and killed a city employee.  Investigation revealed that the car had
  been shopped at CSX's South Rocky Mount shops and that the
  hand brake was never reconnected.  Be careful what you pick up
  in interchange.

                                                         Harry Bundy


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