Kansas Bridge Fire
For those who believe nothing exciting ever happens in Kansas
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The Good news: It was a normal day in Sharon Springs, Kansas when a Union Pacific crew boarded a loaded coal train to head on the long trek back to Salina. The Bad news: Just a few miles into the trip a wheel bearing becomes overheated and melts off, letting the truck support drop down and grind on top of the rail - creating white hot molten metal droppings to spew downward on the rail. The Good news: A very alert crew noticed a small amount of smoke about halfway back in the train and immediately stopped the train in compliance with the rules. The Bad news: The train stopped with the hot wheel on top of a wooden bridge built with creosote ties and trusses... The crew tried to explain to higher-ups but were instructed not to move the train... ... that Rules prohibit moving the train when a part is defective.     Don’t let common sense get in the way of a good disaster! I'm proud to be a railway modeler. - Rod Stewart Care shouldn't start in the emergency room. - James Douglas Never invest emergency savings in the stock market. - Suze Orman Trusting our intuition often saves us from disaster. - Anne W Schaef My train of thought derailed. There were no survivors. - Unknown Meet success like a gentleman and disaster like a man. - Lord Birkenhead Sometimes that light at the end of the tunnel is a train. - Charles Barkley School Of Hard Knocks: Where they train door-to-door salesmen - Daffynitions joe-ks.com Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs. - Ambrose Bierce If God had intended us to fly, He would never have given us railways. - Michael Flanders Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. - Natalie Goldberg If women can be railroad workers in Russia, why can't they fly in space? - Valentina Tereshkova The light you see at the end of the tunnel is the front of an oncoming train. - David Lee Roth A private railroad car is not an acquired taste. One takes to it immediately. - Eleanor R. Belmont The only way of catching a train I ever discovered is to miss the train before. - G K Chesterton There is a light at the end of the tunnel... hopefully its not a freight train! - Mariah Carey There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth. - Charles Dickens The only ultimate disaster that can befall us is to feel ourselves at home on this earth. - Malcolm Muggeridge When my friends and I played cowboys and Indians, I was always the Chinese railroad worker. - Robin Williams If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction. - Dietrich Bonhoeffer Any disaster you can survive is an improvement in your character, your stature, and your life. - Joseph Campbell If you're not paying for it through the health plan, you pay for it in the emergency room. - David Lehman I think it's an absolute disaster that Australia, the government, allowed kangaroo culling. - Steve Irwin I have to tell them that last night was a shameful train wreck filled with blind cuddly puppies. - Charlie Sheen I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train. - Oscar Wilde All my life I've wanted, just once, to say something clever without losing my train of thought. - Robert Breault One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency. - Arnold H. Glasow My husband is so good at home repairs that they have a special VIP area for him in the emergency room. - Unknown Faith is a fine invention When Gentlemen can see - But Microscopes are prudent In an Emergency. - Emily Dickinson When walking, you see things that you miss in a motor car or on the train. You give your mind space to ponder. - Tom Hodgkinson I'm grateful that I never was that senior athlete who realized she'd done nothing but train all her life. - Clara Hughes I have left orders to be awakened at any time in case of national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting. - Ronald Reagan Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him. - Dwight D Eisenhower It's like running a marathon race. We train all hours of the day. When you are taking a bath, you are thinking of the flight. - Kalpana Chawla If a train is coming at you, closing your eyes won't save you... but if you look right at it, you at least have a chance to jump. - Andrew Vachss Optimist: someone who figures that taking a step backward after taking a step forward is not a disaster; it's more like a cha-cha. - Robert Brault A helping word to one in trouble is often like a switch in a railroad track ... an inch between a wreck and smooth, rolling prosperity. - Henry Ward Beecher A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad. - Theodore Roosevelt When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don't throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer. - Corrie Ten Boom Do not train boys to learning by force and harshness, but lead them by what amuses them, so that they may better discover the bent of their minds. - Plato see also Fire, Safety & Train Sections
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