When a Canadian engine throws a piston – it stays thrown:D Bet the insurance claim made for interesting reading!
http://talk.newagtalk.com/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=165984&mid=1190655#M1190655
By: mike currill - 24th January 2011 at 15:41
Well, the locomotive might spoil your day as well 😉
Most certainly would but at least there’s a fighting chance of hearing the train coming and doing something about getting out of the way, not so the piston.
By: PeeDee - 23rd January 2011 at 22:55
Story of my teenage years. Oh, and many years after!
Piston broke.
By: frankvw - 23rd January 2011 at 22:50
Well, the locomotive might spoil your day as well 😉
By: mike currill - 23rd January 2011 at 19:25
To be hit by something that size would definitely spoil your day somewhat. The Piston I mean not the loco
By: tornado64 - 23rd January 2011 at 15:00
many years ago my father was working as a guard on a manchester to leeds train when that threw a piston as it came out of summit tunnel between todmorden and littlebourough
the class 40’s cylinder head was found not too far away ( well in the context of things anyway )
the piston however was lost to the moors and will probably still be there somewhere
what is even more increadible is the engines are not attatched to a drive train as such as they are either deisel hydraulic or diesel electric
the latter being more common the engines merely drive generators which provide power for electric traction motors !!
an english electric class 40 simmilar to the one my dad was on
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January 22, 2011 at 9:52 pm