What's happening to all those rail customers south of Paulsboro? The power plant and Dupont in Carney's point and Deepwater? The SMS short line in Pureland? Is there any other rail route to access these places? i can't imagine these places going for very long without rail service.
Freddy wrote:I wonder also,since there was no tender,who was taking a grease gun and an oil can and crawling the length of the drive shaft in order to grease all the fittings and applying grease to theGiven that they missed an inspection date, and with no one on site, we can imagine the lubrication was not up to snuff, possibly relating to the wedges required to lock the bridge properly not sliding into place properly... Yes, the NTSB report will be interesting, too bad it usually takes a year.
wedges and also changing the burnt out light bulbs that the Coast Guard would require for navigation. Our wedges and fittings were looked at every few weeks and we only ran 3 trains per
day.
Makes you wonder how many other disasters from cutting corners are just waiting to happen. At least no one was seriously hurt or killed in this one.
JS