I wonder if it was as much fun the second time

[steelin81]

We get a train through our town once every two weeks, sometimes but not very often once a week. It pulls cars to the Prairie West Terminal empty then picks them up when they are loaded and drops them off at a mainline siding at Macklin Sk. On Jan 19th they were pulling empty cars to Prairie West when they jumped a crossing from Ice that was covering the rails. Last night on my way home from work, Feb 20th, they were off the tracks again. this time with full cars and heading west. The funny thing is the Engines would have come through empty yesterday morning to pick the cars up.

The first time they were headed east

They brought in two Boom Cats to set it back on.

last night headed west but ending up in about the same place as they did the first time only facing the other direction.

[putsie]

I often wonder how this doesn't happen more. There's a lot of crossing around here that always seem to have a buildup of snow/ice on them.

Thanks for sharing the pics. Those are some neat boom Cat's, not sure I've seen anything like them before.

[rickscustoms]

thats awsone i like issues like that to funny

[farmboy98]

that's funny to me 'cause I have a cousin who works the lines in saskatchewan out of moose jaw. wonder if that was him ;D

[Southern]

I'm surprised they didn't mount a plow on the front. To help it out. Specially if the snow is bad enough.

[steelin81]

I'm not sure a plow would work in this situation, It's not so much the snow as it is the ice that builds up in the crossing.
Chris, The Boom Cats are used for pipelining, It's actually amazing how much they will lift. These came from Midwestern and are used for ''Big Inch'' pipelines. These were mounted on a D9 tractor, the largest boom that the pipeline outfit that I work for has is a D6.

[nielsenfarms]

Not only do they use those boom cats for oil fields, they are used by several large derailment clean up companies, google Hulchers or RJ Corman. They've both got impressive fleets of equipment.

[lawlev]

anybody get hurt

[TwoTone]

I was starting to wonder if this happened next to our farm last night. There was about 8 miles of train backed up and that has NEVER happened here. So I think Ill take my Brute Force out in the pasture and look at what happened. And most likely get stuck in a drift. We have 8ft drifts and then lots of bare ground. Typical

[steelin81]

Nobody was hurt, the tracks aren't rated for too much speed anymore, the trains avg speed would probably only get up to about 8-10 mph usually when they are coming through town they are only doing about 4 or 5 mph.