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DownSouth · Sep 28, 2012

No I don't know anything about it, received it in an Email and thought I would share the insanity with my YTMag friends!

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oldtanker · Sep 28, 2012

Think they made a boboo!

Thanks for sharing. Wonder where tha's at.

Rick

DownSouth · Sep 28, 2012

I don't know Rick, I tired to tell by zooming in on pic 5 and 7 but it get's too blurry. Maybe someone will recognize the markings on the white pick up.

Mike (WA) · Sep 28, 2012

Sure seems strange that the excavator would just wipe out the trestle, and not the other way around, given the comparative difference in weight. Mounting bolts of the trestle must have been completely rusted off.

You' in a heap o' trouble, boy. . .

Anonymous-0 · Sep 28, 2012

(quoted from post at 15:07:29 09/28/12) Think they made a boboo!

Thanks for sharing. Wonder where tha's at.

Rick

WBGVA?????????? Or at least the driver is from there maybe.......

Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

Anonymous-0 · Sep 28, 2012

I hope he has good insurance. I bet he gets cancelled.

DownSouth · Sep 28, 2012

I thought the same thing Mike, and if you look at the 4th picture you can see apperantly maintenece is't top priority wherever this is. See the paint on the concrete, it appears they painted as far as they could reach and that was good enough. If they only paint half way, I tend to doubt there is much inspection going on.

ray hofstetter · Sep 28, 2012

I'm thinkin I remember something about this about a year ago, in PA.

CliffP · Sep 28, 2012

It was in Lloydminster, Saskatchewan back in October of 2011.

ray hofstetter · Sep 28, 2012

Now we know, Cliff was driving.....

Tim(nj) · Sep 28, 2012

You'll see a lot of paint jobs like that around here . . . the graffiti artists can reach just that high, so that's what the maintenance guys have to paint over. Those bridges sit on floating feet on top of the piers and abutments. They are designed to take a lot of weight straight down, but it doesn't take much to shear them sideways. That's why in floods, you'll sometimes see whole spans washing off the piers in one piece.

DownSouth · Sep 28, 2012

Actually I was thinking more along the lines of the driver being "Lyle Niemi". He had probably just dropped off that 8N and was on his way home with the excavator!

Anonymous-0 · Sep 28, 2012

In the mid to late 90's just outside of Edmonton, a brand new Cat D10 was written off when it hit a railway bridge while being delivered to a local coal mine. It was actually wedged almost vertical under the bridge. It was front page on the Edmonton Sun paper. Apparently the mine had purchased 4 or 5 D10's and this was the last one to deliver. The ripper shank was put in upside down for transport but somehow they forgot to lower it on the last machine and it hit the bridge wedging the Cat under it with the trailer squished flat on the ground. The fifth wheel was ripped completely off the truck and the driver was in shock and taken to hospital. I think they said he was doing close to 50 MPH. The bridge didn't look like it received too much damage in the picture. There's been a few excavators hitting bridges too.

cole in mo. · Sep 28, 2012

If a buddy of mine had done that, he'd of put his beer down, looked around and said, oops did I do that?

samn40 · Sep 28, 2012

Oh dear!!!!!
Sam

JBMac76 · Sep 28, 2012

Mike,

Are you from the South originally? That's a common term around her for being up chit creek without a paddle!

John

Tony Vidlak · Sep 28, 2012

In 2003 when I was the GM for Asplundh Tree Service I had an employee run a brand new bucket truck under a railroad bridge but in my case the bridge won with no damage the truck on the other hand was totalled. This is amazing. Wow !!!!!

DownSouth · Sep 28, 2012

Ooooohhhhhh, now that makes good sense! I've seen grafitti on the cross beam before where the kids get on top and hang over to paint, I reckon the maintenance guys just leave that part alone since most aren't 16 years old and willing to dangle from a rail.
And the explanation on the bridge mounting makes perfect sense now. I was amazed at how the rail moved and in one picture how well the ties were spike, they just shifted right over the gravel bed with the rails.

Ken Macfarlane · Sep 28, 2012

Its an RCMP truck, location posted above.

RodinNS · Sep 28, 2012

Stupid is as stupid does....
Next time someone will make sure the boom is curled down instead of standing upright. Someone wrote on off around here about a year ago like that. They hit a concrete overpass. Took some chunks out but it didn't move...

This wasn't a bad take out for only a 240 Deere. Mabey in the future someone will learn to build bridges higher.

Rod

Tony in Mass. · Sep 28, 2012

Yeah, that's an RCMP truck back there. Lyle would know, he rode in the back seat of enough of them.
I don't think that bridge deck weighs as much as it looks...'corrigated technology'??? The ties weren't spiked down too good either. Had to be CPR. CN isn't that cheesy....

Adirondack case guy · Sep 29, 2012

Nothing Wrecks Like A Deere!.

Mike (WA) · Sep 29, 2012

Nope, just watched the Dukes of Hazard a lot. LOL

DownSouth · Sep 29, 2012

LOL, that"s a good one ACG!

ChrisCos · Sep 29, 2012

Looks like he forgot to lower the.... BOOOOOOOOMMM!!

:lol:

Patsdeere · Sep 29, 2012

Bethca not too many fully loaded semis stop that fast.

Inno · Sep 29, 2012

Reminds me of that Bill Engvall joke. "I was hauling this here bridge and ran out of fuel.........here's your sign!"

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