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 Railroads: Two backbones with a thousand ribs - Daffynitions joe-ks.com 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 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 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 The best way to meet a woman is in an emergency situation - if you're in a shipwreck, or you find yourself behind enemy lines, or in a flood. - Mark Helprin 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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