Buckles Blog: Power Units #4

Saturday, April 12, 2008

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Anonymous said...: I have a picture of this truck lifting a wagon that had jumped the gunnells back onto a flat car, I`ll try to find it and send it in.; 12 April, 2008 11:27
Buckles said...: I don't remember the year or the circumstances but in the 60's I rode the Milwaukee train back to Baraboo.
John Herriott and I had the "celebrity" car all to ourselves.
Suddenly while enroute, one of the wagons broke free and dropped down between the cars.
I remember sitting on a bank watching while Johnny rounded up some guys and frogged it back up on the flat car.; 12 April, 2008 11:45
Anonymous said...: It was a regular occurance for a wagon to jump the gunnels during un-loading and loading. There were several ways to get the wagon back on the car, including one that I had not seen before that was used on the Royal American show. They threw good sized timber slanted in front of the wheel that was of it's track to force the wagon into position as it was moving. While this worked some of the time they also blew a lot of outside tires doing it.
Bob Kitto; 12 April, 2008 19:38

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