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Western Railroad Discussion > New GE Locomotive Tries To Escape From Ft. Worth!Date: 04/06/13 06:36 New GE Locomotive Tries To Escape From Ft. Worth! Author: bnsfengineer This brand new GE Locomotive apparently wanted to get out and run at the new Ft. Worth GE Locomotive Plant.
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Eng.Shadetree Date: 04/06/13 06:45 Re: New GE Locomotive Tries To Escape From Ft. Worth! Author: SanJoaquinEngr shadetree Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > Handbrake didn't work, lol. > > Eng.Shadetree Someone forgot to chuck the wheel... and also forgot to do the independent release with the handbrake applied and reset of the jam.. Next question is who or whom do we drug test? Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/06/13 07:46 by SanJoaquinEngr. Date: 04/06/13 06:47 Re: New GE Locomotive Tries To Escape From Ft. Worth! Author: WrongWayMurphy Thank goodness for the chain link fence !
Date: 04/06/13 06:55 Re: New GE Locomotive Tries To Escape From Ft. Worth! Author: icancmp193 Oops! Possible "lemon" in the making!
Tom Y Date: 04/06/13 07:05 Re: New GE Locomotive Tries To Escape From Ft. Worth! Author: SilvertonRR100 icancmp193 Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > Oops! Possible "lemon" in the making! > > Tom Y We will be watching the 7109 for a while, put her on the heritage list! Rob Date: 04/06/13 07:12 Re: New GE Locomotive Tries To Escape From Ft. Worth! Author: Lackawanna484 Another few hundred feet and she would have been (back) on the rails...
Date: 04/06/13 07:22 Re: New GE Locomotive Tries To Escape From Ft. Worth! Author: JoCoLB Guess this is a new form of a grand opening ribbon-cutting ceremony.
Date: 04/06/13 07:40 Re: New GE Locomotive Tries To Escape From Ft. Worth! Author: MarkMeoff It didn't want to go on in life in that ugly BNSF paint.
Date: 04/06/13 07:56 Re: New GE Locomotive Tries To Escape From Ft. Worth! Author: csxcarl Houston, we have a problem !
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/06/13 07:58 by csxcarl. Date: 04/06/13 08:02 Re: New GE Locomotive Tries To Escape From Ft. Worth! Author: howeld Now just imagine you crewing a train approaching when you see loco breaking through fence.
Posted from iPhone Date: 04/06/13 08:18 Re: New GE Locomotive Tries To Escape From Ft. Worth! Author: HoggerMatt howeld Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > Now just imagine you crewing a train approaching > when you see loco breaking through fence. > > Posted from iPhone This incident happened less than a month ago I believe. Amtrak train #821 went by it moments after it crashed thru the fence. Engineer told me about it upon his going off duty in Fort Worth that afternoon. Matt Date: 04/06/13 08:23 Re: New GE Locomotive Tries To Escape From Ft. Worth! Author: miralomarail What a sad state of affairs, and in their 1st year of Operation too
Date: 04/06/13 08:49 Re: New GE Locomotive Tries To Escape From Ft. Worth! Author: NKP715 They'll have to go a ways to beat putting a unit atop
the mound of dirt at the end of the Erie test track, some years back. Date: 04/06/13 09:05 Re: New GE Locomotive Tries To Escape From Ft. Worth! Author: slug96 I saw that unit on Thursday in Kingman, AZ. Second unit on a westbound Z-Train.
Posted from Android Date: 04/06/13 10:47 Re: New GE Locomotive Tries To Escape From Ft. Worth! Author: Lone Star Kool Aid...Oh Yeah!!
John Date: 04/06/13 16:49 Re: New GE Locomotive Tries To Escape From Ft. Worth! Author: coach It's GE's new "creative management" hiring practice at work!
"OK, Creative Management & Assembly Team #1, how do we get this built engine out of the building??" Date: 04/07/13 00:52 Re: New GE Locomotive Tries To Escape From Ft. Worth! Author: fredkharrison Well, I see they really do roll these babies off the assembly line.
Fred Harrison Central Point, OR CORPpower/JSS/EORS Date: 04/07/13 11:55 Re: New GE Locomotive Tries To Escape From Ft. Worth! Author: darkcloud I would guess a higher berm will be added, one that should have been included in the original design.
Date: 04/07/13 18:15 Re: New GE Locomotive Tries To Escape From Ft. Worth! Author: chefjavier This problem would not happen on EMD plant..
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