And an SP Kodachrome Cabooose to go with the engines.
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Kevin Wilson-Smith
And an SP Kodachrome Cabooose to go with the engines.
This is actually a metal framed caboose - quite useful as there were strong enough to be included within consists, as opposed to always at the end.
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Re: And an SP Kodachrom,e Cabooose to go with the engines.
Some time last year Peter Stow gave a talk at the bi-monthly FOTR meeting about rail accidents in South Africa, about which he has done a lot of research. He showed a number of pictures where wooden-bodied vehicles marshalled in between steel vehicles had virtually ceased to exist after an accident. I recall one where a relatively low-speed collision which barely damaged the two locomotives nor the steel bodied vehicles resulted in the complete destruction of a wooden-bodied coach.
It is for this reason that FOTR always marshals our Regional Manager's Saloon at the end of the train, even though it sometimes takes a bit of creative shunting. Indeed our access agreement with TFR states, "Wooden-bodied coaching Rolling Stock shall not be placed between steel Rolling Stock and shall be marshalled to the rear of the Train" (7.15.5).
Just this morning I was reading about Britain's worst ever railway accident, at Quintinshill in 1915, where 227 people died and 245 were injured. The accident was due to errors by the signalmen, but "the wooden coaches of the troop train were completely smashed to pieces" (Amazing and Extraordinary Railway Facts by Julian Holland, David & Charles, 2007, ISBN 0715325825, p13).
It is for this reason that FOTR always marshals our Regional Manager's Saloon at the end of the train, even though it sometimes takes a bit of creative shunting. Indeed our access agreement with TFR states, "Wooden-bodied coaching Rolling Stock shall not be placed between steel Rolling Stock and shall be marshalled to the rear of the Train" (7.15.5).
Just this morning I was reading about Britain's worst ever railway accident, at Quintinshill in 1915, where 227 people died and 245 were injured. The accident was due to errors by the signalmen, but "the wooden coaches of the troop train were completely smashed to pieces" (Amazing and Extraordinary Railway Facts by Julian Holland, David & Charles, 2007, ISBN 0715325825, p13).
