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mahatmakanejeeves

(57,464 posts)
Mon May 15, 2023, 07:17 AM May 2023

On this day, May 15, 2001, CSX had a runway train from Walbridge, Ohio.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_15

• 2001 – A CSX EMD SD40-2 rolls out of a train yard in Walbridge, Ohio, with 47 freight cars, including some tank cars with flammable chemical, after its engineer fails to reboard it after setting a yard switch. It travels south driverless for 66 miles (106 km) until it was brought to a halt near Kenton.[7] The incident became the inspiration for the 2010 film Unstoppable.
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On this day, May 15, 2001, CSX had a runway train from Walbridge, Ohio. (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves May 2023 OP
I remember it well. multigraincracker May 2023 #1
Tom Russell, in his album , Hotwalker-- 3Hotdogs May 2023 #2

multigraincracker

(32,686 posts)
1. I remember it well.
Mon May 15, 2023, 07:38 AM
May 2023

Year before I retired. Last job was working in a CXS Rail Yard. Trust me, rail yards are dangerous.

3Hotdogs

(12,384 posts)
2. Tom Russell, in his album , Hotwalker--
Mon May 15, 2023, 09:47 AM
May 2023

Says he and Charles Bukowski got drunk and started a diesel engine down a track where it ended up 60 miles down the line.

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