Posted by Heath72 on March 13, 2011 at 20:09:20 from (208.126.22.30):
In Reply to: JD vs. Train posted by downsouth on March 13, 2011 at 19:01:52:
I have been an engineer for 18 years now. In 2001 we hit a late model 4020 Deere with a factory cab doing 40MPH with a loaded unit grain train. It basically happened just like this one...everything ahead of the cab was gone. It was one of the worst winters I've seen on a January day. It wasn't that the driver didn't see us, but the road was covered in ice, and when he hit the brakes, the tractor just slid. He jumped out into a snow bank in the ditch, and walked away with just a sore knee! The rear of the tractor was still standing upright as it was attatched to an old honey wagon.
With all the snow build up around the brake shoes and the extreme cold temperatures, it took us a half mile to stop on a steep uphill grade with the brakes in emergency! Upon inspecting the locomotive, I found that the only damage was that the concussion from the impact burned out one of the ditch light bulbs. There was also some green paint on the snow plow pilot, but it was not bent. Those are built out of 1/2" or 5/8" rolled steel and I guess it takes more than that to bend one. The front half of that poor old 4020 was in about 100 pieces!
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