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By pintoplumber - 14 Years Ago
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I'm also a railroad nut, and I got an e mail yesterday about a locomotive throwing a piston and it landed in a house nearby. How would I go about posting an e mail like that? I think there's 3 pictures in the e mail.
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By charliemccraney - 14 Years Ago
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You may be able to simply copy and paste everything.
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By Y block Billy - 14 Years Ago
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Ah, Thats funny. My cousin had an Escort wagon he left at my house, well my brother being a railroad nut brought me a big connecting rod from a locamotive. I laid it in the back of my cousins wagon and sent him an email saying I threw a rod in his car. He wrote me back this nasty paragraph stating I abused his car and whatnot. My reply was a picture of the large rod laying in the back of his car. I got him good on that one.
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By YellowWing - 14 Years Ago
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Here is a link to the story and photos of the locomotive piston,
http://jalopnik.com/#!trainlopnik/5745042
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By pintoplumber - 14 Years Ago
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I've got a couple more pictures than that, I hope I can post them.
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By pintoplumber - 14 Years Ago
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Shortly before this picture was taken, while working under load, 2699 experienced what is known
in the trade as a "catastrophic uncontained engine failure". The train was passing the town of
Independence , LA, at the time.
The first picture below shows that the engine exploded and one of the 16 cylinder-packs that
form the engine was ejected through the engine bay body side and thrown clear of the locomotive.
In addition to this the piston from that cylinder was thrown free by the force of the failure. It was
ejected so violently that it traveled through the air and crashed through the roof of a nearby home
where it imbedded itself in an interior wall.
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By charliemccraney - 14 Years Ago
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Dennis, I sent an email.
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By pintoplumber - 14 Years Ago
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Thanks Charlie, one of my kids came home and helped me through it.
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By MoonShadow - 14 Years Ago
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Try this site: http://talk.newagtalk.com/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=165984&mid=1190655#M1190655
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By Canadian Hot Rodder - 14 Years Ago
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Hmmm, it was a Canadian National train, must have been a gm diesel though!!! 
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