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Engineering fail: Train brake pads overheat on a wooden bridge (6 Photos)

December 15, 2010 | In: Auto, FAIL, Tech

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Mac

Thats a hot track

Anonymous

No kidding
NONEYA

BOOM!!! With the zinger!

Stan

first reaction: take pictures, post on chive

Trainman

Well, this accident took place in 2002, so I wouldn't call the "post on chive" part a first reaction…
_HypoLuxa_

**CORRECTION**
first reaction: take pictures . . . then create TheChive . . . then post on TheChive

tommybhoy

Didn't think they had wooden bridges anymore….because of stuff like that
#3

uberbrie isn't

only in the US…we don't have what i would call "foresight"

landomcdando

who's got the marshmallows?!?!
Irock

He burned his bridge….he'll never get another job.

chuck

I see what you did there.

jacob

those pictures are all better than Unstoppable.

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1574583345 Kevin Waller

Agreed.

jken

Why would you stop the train on a bridge? And why, when it starts burning, would you not get it moving OFF the bridge?

paulhitchcock

According to snopes, railroad regulations prohibit moving a train with a defective part. When the crew realized the bridge was on fire, they contacted the higher-ups and asked for permission to move the train off the bridge. The higher-ups told them they couldn't move the train because of the defective part. So they unhooked all the cars that weren't on the bridge and let the others fall in the creek.

Wakka Wakka

Insurance claim? someone got paid

pashmr

fried brakes were prolly siezed up and the train could not move.

ssf

Until "Hey, Soul Sister" was released this was the biggest Train disaster of the decade.

joeoby78

BA-ZING!
HoBoGuY

bwhaha! Oh snap!

youdummy

that whole thing was just a train wreck
Giorgos

talk about epic fail
gator

the train went down down down in a burnin blaze of fire…..
Great White North

"Hey Jeb, help me & Billy put that fire out"
"I don't think so Jim-Bob, my brother's got a line of the contract to build a new bridge"
mike

PICTURES NEED TO BE BIGGER LIKE HD PLEASE
equalizermax

This is a repost
Logic76

disgruntled conductor decided to gtfo and move on, even if that meant burning bridges!
beckbeck57

Where is the story that goes with this? Did anyone survive? Where did this happen?

Dandude

your aware this is a freight train? the only thing that didn't survive were the cars that fell in the river

mojo420jojo

Going back to the future, your doing it wrong….

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