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So you really think you had a bad day ? local accident

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Billy NY

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A local, whom we all know very well, had a an extremely bad experience with a train. Apparently, unbeknownst to him, he started down a slope towards train tracks, and slid on ice/packed snow across the tracks, just in time for a train to t-bone the tractor ! Glad he's ok, given what happened, its hard to believe a person could walk away from that.

If you look in the photos, theres an older IH with a gravity wagon receiving the salvaged corn. This area is predominantly farms still, about 10 miles north of me.
Train/Truck Collision

Train/Truck Collision 2nd article
 
Older gentleman from there came way over here a couple years ago to get some oats. His family made feed for others too. Bill Elsworth I think? I recall he said they could only afford one L !
 
He's real lucky, one of us will eventually run into him and get the story, when I read the first article, no name was given, but I knew the place he was headed to, then the 2nd article came out, it identified the driver. Freak thing, the weather, bitter cold, and snow, normally it never snows when its that cold, so the snow pack and or ice that persists after the roads are cleared, he was not expecting this, I'll bet he's been driving for 30 years by now, unreal how things can line up to happen like this one did.
 
That fellow had better go to Church extra today.

He was very lucky to live through that.

Well he has a topper story to tell. LOL
 
I know the owner of that feed place just from loading his trucks with grain, and or off loading fertilizer a few years back, last name starts with an H, Halford or something like that. The area up and around there is all older farms, lots of old iron still in use, would not surprise me, as farmers do have to reach out beyond the local areas at times.
 

Ouch! In one of the photos with the train/truck from the side, that locomotive just dwarfs that tractor trailer. I use to work in Auburn, Alabama years ago. I worked the second shift (3-11pm) and there was frequently a train coming through town about the time I got off and was crossing the track. Just flashing lights (no bars to stop traffic at that crossing). Well, being somewhat young and stupid (seems to go together), I would goose the throttle to scoot across the tract as the train was getting sort of close at times. One time I got a little too close and that engineer leaned out of that window and he was angry and shook his fist at me. I figured it out after that how dangerous it really was. Train might be going slow but a Ford truck would be no match for it. Sort of odd that my grandpa and father was a railroad man for many years and my neighbor was also railroad engineer. My neighbor told me about several vehicles that he had crushed in his years of driving trains. He said it wasn't pretty at the mess it left of people/vehicles.
 
guy not far from me was out drinking made wrong turn and got stuck on track it was a new truck.but that was the cheapest part because he stopped the train and a mainline train all trains in us were tied up because of timing on single track now can you imagine what that will cost?
 
Friend of mine had a pickup towing a large gooseneck flatbed trailer with a 1500 gallon full water tank on it. He made a right turn in front of a freight train going 60 mph. The engine hit the truck on the end of the rear axle and separated the trailer from the truck.

The truck end around 180 degrees and he sat in the truck holding the steering wheel while all the cars whizzed by right by the bumper. The tool box in the truck bed ruptured and they later found cracked sockets as far as a half mile down the track.

The water tank peeled open like an orange, but my friend was unhurt!

Don't mess with trains; you will have to be extra lucky not to get hurt.
 
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