Western Railroad Discussion > Colton: Rescuers save man who reportedly fell off train

Here is a very unusual story from Colton, CA. Published today on press-enterprise web site:

Rescue crews Friday night lifted to safety a severely injured man who reportedly fell off a train and landed on a pipe below a railroad bridge above the Santa Ana River in Colton, officials said.

http://www.pe.com/articles/colton-750448-reportedly-fell.html

In the full story it says he was found on a water or sewer pipe about eight to 10 feet below the bridge and later says "He was straddling the pipe about 100 feet above the cement river bed". I think I know the bridge there just east of old Colton, but is it really that high above the river bed?

And apparently singing soprano now ??

hotrail Wrote:
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> Here is a very unusual story from Colton, CA.
> Published today on press-enterprise web site:
>
> Rescue crews Friday night lifted to safety a
> severely injured man who reportedly fell off a
> train and landed on a pipe below a railroad bridge
> above the Santa Ana River in Colton, officials
> said.
>
> http://www.pe.com/articles/colton-750448-reportedl
> y-fell.html
>
> In the full story it says he was found on a water
> or sewer pipe about eight to 10 feet below the
> bridge and later says "He was straddling the pipe
> about 100 feet above the cement river bed". I
> think I know the bridge there just east of old
> Colton, but is it really that high above the river
> bed?

There's about 40 feet from the bottom of the bridge to the concrete river bottom.
Not that high, but it will still kill ya.

It looks like he fell off at one of the ends of the 2 bridges (Santa Ana River and Warm Creek/Lytle Creek). See here- http://goo.gl/maps/eDSUs The pipe is alongside the bridges, but veers away at the bridge ends.

mapboy

Still, scary!

Those "pipes" along side of the bridges are actually conduits for the Sprint Fibre Optic cables.