And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Sunday, February 8, 2026
Unfortunate Train Accident, January 25, 1948, Los Angeles California
You nailed it. From https://www.rrpicturearchives.net/locoPicture.aspx?id=84591 you can find the text: "Locomotive #19L, leading the Super Chief, loses braking ability while preparing to depart Los Angeles' Union Passenger Terminal (LAUPT). The train crashes through a steel bumper post and then a concrete wall located at the end of the dead-end track, and ultimately comes to rest with the front half of the locomotive dangling 20 feet (6 m) above the street below. Although there are no injuries, the engineer loses his job over the incident." & the photo is dated 1/25/48.
I'm not allowed to drive the train. The whistle I cannot blow. It's not my place to say how far the train's supposed to go. It's not my place to shoot off steam, Or even ring the bell. But let the @#$%& jump the track and see who catches hell!
EMD F3 ?
ReplyDeleteYou nailed it. From https://www.rrpicturearchives.net/locoPicture.aspx?id=84591 you can find the text:
Delete"Locomotive #19L, leading the Super Chief, loses braking ability while preparing to depart Los Angeles' Union Passenger Terminal (LAUPT). The train crashes through a steel bumper post and then a concrete wall located at the end of the dead-end track, and ultimately comes to rest with the front half of the locomotive dangling 20 feet (6 m) above the street below. Although there are no injuries, the engineer loses his job over the incident." & the photo is dated 1/25/48.
Good thing, those wires were there to keep it from going over. (sarc)
ReplyDeleteUnfortunate for the rail company, perhaps, but a great opportunity for the photographer.
ReplyDeleteI'm not allowed to drive the train.
ReplyDeleteThe whistle I cannot blow.
It's not my place to say how far the train's supposed to go.
It's not my place to shoot off steam,
Or even ring the bell.
But let the @#$%& jump the track and see who catches hell!
Same type of locomotive as in Silver Streak?
ReplyDeleteOne of the best stunts ever filmed, and no computers involved
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DX0dhs-C1DA
I wonder how brown the engineer's trousers were
ReplyDelete…and they’re STILL rebuilding the track!
ReplyDeleteHey! Is this CA Gov. Newscum's "high speed rail line"?
DeleteIt says NO PARKING. Now we know why.
ReplyDeleteNow the whole state is a train wreck......
ReplyDeleteTurns out the engineer was on his iPhone and missed the red light.
ReplyDeleteLet's just leave it and turn it into a restaurant.
ReplyDelete