Big Cats in a tunnel...

do you get hired then you haul the machines to the site? thanks :clap2:

What was the cause of the derailment? Track maintenance??

do you get hired then you haul the machines to the site? thanks :clap2:

Just like a wrecker outfit, but instead of cars and trucks, its trains. The railroads call, we go.

Hi, Tim T.
Good stuff. Thanks for sharing. Pulling that loco out musta bin some job.

Just my 0.02.

looks like a fun job.

You have to assume that when a derailment occurs outside that the energy is dissipated by the cars going every which way. My impression is inside the tunnel, they expend that energy by smashing each other into wreckage? Looks like a lot of twisted iron to dig/yank out of there?

Which end did you go in through, Canadian or US?

We worked from the Sarnia side, and Yep with no place to go, some of those cars were mangled beyond recognition. It took 9 big cats and a track derrick to pull the locomotive out, we dragged it nearly 3,000 feet in balla. It had minimal damage and at four million bucks, they sure did not want to cut it up in the tunnel. One of the biggest wrecks for all around difficulty and size I have ever worked. It was a pure brute force job. We used cable as big as 3" and 150 ton shackles to get heavy enough rigging to hold together.Everything had to come out by straight pulling power.