{"id":4584,"date":"2012-03-30T15:53:04","date_gmt":"2012-03-30T22:53:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=4584"},"modified":"2012-04-06T06:23:14","modified_gmt":"2012-04-06T13:23:14","slug":"train-wreck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=4584","title":{"rendered":"Train wreck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I normally explore nature, but when a train car travels down the bank across from one&#8217;s home, I notice it. This is on the C.P.R. line between Nelson and Procter and about a kilometer east of Atbara.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding: 2px 6px 4px 6px; margin-top: -10px; margin-left: 10px; width: 380px; float: right; color: #555555; background-color: #eeeeee; border: #dddddd 2px solid;\"><span style=\"color: #555555;\">This page shows follows the action on Friday and Saturday (Mar. 30, 31). The story is continued overnight with\u00a0<a title=\"Wreck, stage one \u221a\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=4635\">Wreck, stage one\u00a0\u221a<\/a> and then with <a title=\"Wreck, Sunday\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=4645\">Wreck, Sunday<\/a>\u00a0and <a title=\"Drowned excavator\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=4681\">Drowned excavator<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>By the time I prepared this posting, there were employees standing at the top of the bank looking at the mess. How\u00a0embarrassing.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Update 1<\/span><\/strong>: Peter Bartl&#8217;s comment below gives added information.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Update 2<\/span><\/strong>: There is further information from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmtv.net\/BCTV_Rail_line_closed_train_derails_excavator_crashes_into_kootenay_lake_news_Nelson_bc_March_31_2011.htm\" target=\"_blank\">TMTV<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Update 3<\/span><\/strong>: The rest of Saturday&#8217;s pictures are below.<\/p>\n<p>A car down the bank; a pile of \u00a0wheels in front of the engine.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4585\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/trainwreck120330s.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Saturday morning: people came out to assess the problem. A raft was lowered to the water (lower left), apparently to examine the excavator that slid into the Lake.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4618\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/trainwreck120331s.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A boom was deployed, presumably above the positon of the excavator.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4621\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/trainwreck120331bs.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>At about 12:30 the rear locomotive has been removed and a crane has been positioned. It is lifting the forward locomotive back onto the tracks. Apparently, they are using a\u00a0pettybone: \u00a0a small powerful crane. more portable than the 200 ton brownhoist.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4623\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/trainwreck120331cs.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>By 3 pm the crane and many of the workmen, and the support vehicles had left towards Nelson.\u00a0Presumably\u00a0the locomotive was back on the track, but it has not moved. At about 3:30 the boat carrying four people headed up the Lake.<\/p>\n<p>So, the raising of the\u00a0excavator\u00a0from the Lake bottom may take place tomorrow. Stand by.<\/p>\n<p>5:30 pm Just when you think they are done for the day, in comes an excavator from the east to clear debris from in front of the\u00a0locomotive. The light will fail soon. Lifting the sunken excavator from the Lake must await tomorrow.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/trainwreck120331ds.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4628\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/trainwreck120331ds.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>7:00 pm. They continue to work into the dark of evening. Apparently, they have picked up the back end of the locomotive and are working under it.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/trainwreck120331es.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4631\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/trainwreck120331es.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>9:30 pm. They are hard at it with every likelihood that work will continue through the night to clear the track. The removal of the excavator from the Lake will undoubtedly wait until daylight. They may work, but I am going to bed.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/trainwreck120331fs.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4633\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/trainwreck120331fs.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I normally explore nature, but when a train car travels down the bank across from one&#8217;s home, I notice it. This is on the C.P.R. line between Nelson and Procter and about a kilometer east of Atbara. 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