Boy! Getting old sucks! Everything aches -- and then you start losing stuff. F'instance, a couple of days ago, I had an Erie-Lackawanna list right here on the computer, and now it's gone! It's all moved to California, of all places, or the Pennsylvania Railroad, of all things! Will I ever find my EL list again? Maybe somewhere else? Randy Brown, ELHS#16 - -------------------------------------------------------------- If you can lift the flange above the rail then even a small object can derail a train. What caused so much damage was the passenger train striking the locomotives that were on a stone train. The freight engines alone probably equaled the weight of the passenger train. If the passenger train had not hit anything alone the right of way the severity of the derailment might have been much less. Steve ------------------------------
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