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I wonder if clean up was part of the costs. I imagine there's quite a few parts that are difficult to move without heavy machinery. Or did they just leave the w
by splitbrain 7y ago
I wonder if clean up was part of the costs. I imagine there's quite a few parts that are difficult to move without heavy machinery. Or did they just leave the wreck and tracks as is? If so are there any of those crash sites still visible?
- TheSpiceIsLife 7y agoThe locomotive equivalent of a shipwreck. Train robbers are land pirates.
- michaelt 7y agoThey got the locomotives and tracks to the crash site somehow, so presumably they know a thing or two about moving heavy stuff around.
- splitbrain 7y agoWell, moving a working locomotive is relatively easy compared to a non-working one ;-)
- glouwbug 7y agoA working train without tracks is non-working machinery. They only laid down a mile of tracks for the show
- cr0sh 7y agoIIRC, the way they did it was to hook onto the local rail line; probably just long enough to get the train onto the "spur" - then move the tracks back. Doing that just takes a lot of people and labor (you've probably seen old films of track laying from the late 1800s-early 1900s). They wouldn't install a switch, as that would be too costly for something so temporary; so they probably just broke the track, moved it sideways a bit, connected it to the new "spur", moved the trains/cars onto it, then reconnected it back to the original line to allow traffic thru. Then basically the reverse to move in equipment to dismantle/haul away the remains.
- bluGill 7y agoFrom what I understand all the valuable parts are removed beforehand. Just a hunk of steel remains to scrap - (scrapping would have waited for a WWII scrap drive)
- dclowd9901 7y agoI think I had read somewhere they usually left the wreckage in place, but during WWII a lot of sites were cleaned up to get steel for the war effort.