Did you mean to put that there?

Riding a speeder past derailed grain cars on the La Veta Pass route.

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Tags:

• railroad
• speeder
• derail
• la
• veta

[nicholasbreeden]

is this the same trackage that the San Luis and Rio Grande runs on?

[greggle01]

Yep

[greggle01]

Not sure when it happened, but the track is used daily for freight and a tourist steam train.

[h0troddude]

lets just call that a barricade so people dont fall ok?

[BlakePlaya]

lol, they could've put it there because one flipped and they kept it there to warn people "look what happens when you know you're doing the wrong thing". :)

[modelrailwayCORP]

If you look closly theres a sign on each one saying "oops accident"

[friscobob56]

Can you say "stringline"?



[CSXtrackworker]

@MrNotch9 These are not there to stop more cars from going over. The main goal in a big derailment is to get the line opend back up as soon as possible. The destroyed track and cars that are not salvageable are pushed off to the side and at a later date a scrapper will come in and torch the cars into moveable pieces. Sometimes they will sit there for months before being removed.

[MrNotch9]

is it me, or do the wheels look rusted? if that's teh case, they might be there to stop more cars from going over the edge

[Matheny1950]

What is this--India?

[beeble2003]

Looks like a perfectly reasonable place to put them, to me. They're not in anyone's way or anything... ;-)

[ldc71960]

You sure them's grain cars.they look like open top chip hoppers???

[JBofBrisbane]

@railcar123 - Over here they're called "section cars" or "motor quads", or sometimes "Fairmonts" after the most popular manufacturer of them.

[WNxRadeon]

@Boss302fan THX :D

[Boss302fan]

@WNxRadeon Think of the garden hose in your yard with a curve in it. When you grab the end of the hose and pull, the curve straightens out. Now think of your train going around a curve. You give the train a jerk from the front end and the train wants to do the same thing as the garden hose...straighten out. Sometimes if you're not a good engineer or just have a bad set of circumstances you might just cause the middle cars to 'climb the rail'. Very simplified explanation