Nostalgia & History > Wreck at Selma..part3

....and not a hard hat in sight !

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I seem to remember that there were some more wrecks at Selma, wasn't the Owl wrecked there also.

Chief409

On 2-12-37 there was a derailment of train #26 at Selma where an intoxicated driver got his car wedged in a switch, walked away from the scene when #26, making approximately 40 mph, hit the automobile derailing the engine, tender, and 6 cars. The engineer and fireman were killed. Oh, and the locomotive was the 2479.

JDE

engine3420 Wrote:
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> ....and not a hard hat in sight !

yes, and oh my, they must all have been blinded by not wearing safety glasses with permanently attached sideshields too! Not to mention run over for not wearing their high-vis. Thanks for taking us back to a time when common sense and hard work prevailed over slogans and knee jerk reactionaries.

engine3420 Wrote:
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> ....and not a hard hat in sight !

Just "hard heads"!

Phil

Finderskeepers Wrote:
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> engine3420 Wrote:
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> > ....and not a hard hat in sight !
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> yes, and oh my, they must all have been blinded by
> not wearing safety glasses with permanently
> attached sideshields too! Not to mention run over
> for not wearing their high-vis. Thanks for taking
> us back to a time when common sense and hard work
> prevailed over slogans and knee jerk
> reactionaries.

Amen to that!! How much simpler would life be without OSHA????