Retro pics, the good old days.

[Jim AAR]

This picture is from Westport Chrysler Plymouth in Winnipeg, where my AAR was sold , not to me, but I am the 3rd owner of my AAR and it has been in Winnipeg it's entire life.

[anlauto]

...at least it got to the dealership...

[Jim AAR]

I worked at CP Rail for 30 years and whenever there was a Train Derailment with Automobile Carriers, the Automobiles on these Carriers were automatically destroyed because it was not worth determining the damage from the collision. If this occurred in a remote location and the cost would have been to high to transport the Rail Cars Or merchandise on or in the rail cars they would often times just push them off the tracks, dig a big hole and bury everything.

CP actually sent out letters to all of the retired maintenance crews asking for information of locations that this occurred in as they got in trouble with the environmentalists in the 90's when they found out about these past practices.

Automobiles involved in derailments could NEVER be sold as NEW <or> Used vehicles ever again and the railroad would just pay out the manufacture or the insurance company. (They would actually rivet a tag to the dash of these cars stating that this car could "NOT BE SOLD to the General Public")

I know this because CP would actually use some of these vehicles for Company Cars and when we were done with them they went to the scrap yard.

Leads me to think about how many muscle cars were involved in Train Derailments over the years that were never allowed to be sold to the General Public and were destroyed.

...at least it got to the dealership...

[Chryco Psycho]

 

[303 Mopar]

Leads me to think about how many muscle cars were involved in Train Derailments over the years that were never allowed to be sold to the General Public and were destroyed.

...at least it got to the dealership...

How often would you estimate there was a train derailment with car carriers?  I wouldn't think that would've occurred very often.

[Jim AAR]

Leads me to think about how many muscle cars were involved in Train Derailments over the years that were never allowed to be sold to the General Public and were destroyed.

...at least it got to the dealership...

How often would you estimate there was a train derailment with car carriers?  I wouldn't think that would've occurred very often.

I have no idea of the frequency or if any occurred, but the odds are there were a few that may or may not have had muscle cars on them. It would be almost impossible to figure out stats, but you would never know because the cars that would have been involved would have been crushed as they would not even allow the parts to be sold. And if it was in a remote location, in the 60's or 70's they would not have even been reported to the media (they didn't like bad press). They would just have cleaned up the mess as fast as they could to get the trains rolling again as every hour that track was closed was big big money as they had to divert or hold all the trains until it was repaired. That's why they would just push most of it to the side, repair the tracks and let the trains resume, then clean up the stuff on the sides in between the trains after the fact. Especially if it occurred on the mainline as they would probably run at least 40 trains a day on the mainline and at least one of those trains would have been a sold Auto Carrier train which would usually be about 50 railcars consisting of bi-levels (10 automobiles loaded on each) and tri-levels (about 15 cars on each).  So the odds are that if there were any derailments of these some would have been muscle cars.

Also in Canada, you had CN & CP on different lines, so CN would have done the same thing. I would not be surprised if the US railroads did the same as well as the cost of the merchandise lost was a drop in the bucket compared to how much they lost if the rail line was out of commission and speed in getting it open again outweighed all other options.

[Roadman]

             

[340challconvert]

           

I bet the Maryland politicians and legislature loved the UGLY, BIG and USELESS Bumpers that the Feds mandated from 1973 on!

The mandate made many cars UGLY!

[RzeroB]

   no need to bring lawn chairs when you have a seat built into the front of your car with the "bumper-bench"! 

[ToxicWolf]

  no need to bring lawn chairs when you have a seat built into the front of your car with the "bumper-bench"! 

Brings tailgating to a whole new level.

[Brads70]

That poor old Maverick/Comet looks like someone installed a continental kit on the wrong end. 

[Roadman]

That poor old Maverick/Comet looks like someone installed a continental kit on the wrong end. 

                             

[realn96]

 

[Chryco Psycho]

 

[303 Mopar]

In honor of anyone affected by the 65" of snow in Erie, PA, this was the blizzard of 1966 in North Dakota.