Trouble on the LoCo RR yesterday when the chief engineer's private car tried to squeak past a two-car limited waiting on the other track.
It seems the track gang wasn't paying close enough attention to the specs when they surveyed this portion of of the road and, as a result, laid the two tracks a tad bit close to one another. There is every reason to believe that alcohol might have been involved.
A board convened to look into the matter, but in the meantime the corner of the baggage car will have to be carefully pried away from the chief engineer's car, which in turn will spend the weekend in the body & paint shop at nearby Dogwater Flowage. The chief engineer is anything but happy as he and some of the boys were going to watch the game on the big flat-screen he recently installed in the car's spacious parlor.
He's a teensy bit irked about the track geometry, too, and has already begun plans to tear up this corner and tighten the bend just enough to open up the clearance between cars. The stretch of track should be open again by Monday morning.
