10/6/2004: Train t-bones car carrier

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Thanks to Design Monkey for sending this along.

When a freight train hits a vehicle at a crossway, it's a really bad thing. When it hits a car carrier, it's a really, really bad thing. And when it hits a car carrier carrying five mint restored vintage sports cars, including three vintage Porsche 356 Speedsters, a T-6 and a 911 well, it's simply unfathomable.

(note: the guy in the shot there is not a victim, he's examining something.)



And here's the other side of the train.



It left a big piece of carrier stuck right in the undercarriage. They had to call in welders.

So what happened? Apparently, the train got hung up on the tracks while crossing them, because it didn't have enough clearance. The authorities called to stop all train traffic, but it wasn't in time to stop this train. And it all happened one block away from the vintage auto show where the cars had just been shown in their top condition.

Ironically, part of the train's freight was... cars.

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