Eastern Railroad Discussion > When a One Hit Wonder Is a Failure

What do you do when the single locomotive hauling your long, long road freight fails?  The answer - not much. Just sit there until somebody in an office somewhere figures out a plan. This Canadian Pacific train hauled by the recently rebuilt 8178 running from the Belt Railway of Chicago to Windsor, Ontario could go no further, while running on rights on Norfolk Southern trackage. Crossings in Adrian Michigan were impassable due to the stopped train on April 17. 
Precision Scheduled Railroading wasn't built with contingencies for the unexpected.

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Two hours later the train is likely still there blocking the railroad.  Perhaps calling a crew and finding an engine is about a four hour delay for this train, and countless hours to other trains.

At least you can't tell the locomotive is broken in the photo!

She looks pretty at least - glad you had good light and capture it.

MEKoch Wrote:
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> Two hours later the train is likely still there
> blocking the railroad.  Perhaps calling a crew
> and finding an engine is about a four hour delay
> for this train, and countless hours to other
> trains.

That is only a problem for the railroad industry if you want to run a passenger train. The delays they cause are intolerable.

TAW

DevalDragon Wrote:
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> At least you can't tell the locomotive is broken
> in the photo!
>
> She looks pretty at least - glad you had good
> light and were able to capture it.

TURN IT OFF THEN BACK ON

A GE rebuilt that broke down! I'm shocked.

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OAKLEY, CA

dan Wrote:
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> TURN IT OFF THEN BACK ON

Send out Roy and Moss!!

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Probably ran out of fuel! Trust me there are far more newer EMD's that fail than the the GE's.