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http://www.sina.com.cn 2001 at 18:22 on May 17 Beijing Evening News,
a train tucked shrill sound of the wind, from a near towns and villages rumble. No one notices it in particular, as there are so many trains drably going back and forth on the railway line every day. Suddenly, a man appeared beside the railway, ran quickly close to the train, and then jumped up, with his arms relaxed, grabbed onto the locomotive tightly, swiftly turned into the cab, quickly activated the brakes, and the train was screeching. It stopped slowly with the sound of brakes.
Wild Horses
Such a thrilling scene is not another Hollywood masterpiece, but a real danger that happened in northwestern Ohio on the 15th.
In fact, it was not until the car was parked that he found that the cab of the locomotive was empty! And, until now, CSX Transportation, the company in charge of the train, had no idea how the driverless train got out. At the time, the train was being marshaled in the slow lane at the Stanley Dockyard, Ohio, and when the marshalling was complete, it would be routed to the departure platform and from there to the nearby Norfolk South Dockyard. But at this moment, the train started to move slowly.
Someone saw this and immediately notified the staff of the CSX transportation company, but it was too late, and the train had already galloped away like a wild horse.
Dangerous Journey
The 47-car train began a dangerous journey that lasted nearly two hours and traveled 113 kilometers. It passed through several towns and villages along the way, with a top speed of up to 74 kilometers per hour, and at its closest it was only 15 meters from some houses. The train even passed through Bowling Green, a city of 29,600 residents, as well as nearby Bowling Green State University. If the train derailed at that time, the consequences would be disastrous.
To prevent accidents, authorities along the railway have imposed traffic controls on some intersections to avoid unwitting motorists colliding with trains as they cross the railway. Meanwhile, CSX Transport urgently researched solutions, at one point trying to force trains to derail in uninhabited fields, but ultimately opted for a safer, less costly option. The company pulled out another train, caught up with the runaway iron dragon near the city of Kenton, and managed to hook its tail, pulling it slowly to slow down. When the speed of the train dropped to 16 kilometers per hour, Jon Horsfield, an engineer of CSX Transport, staged a thrilling scene of picking up the car and successfully subdued the iron dragon.
Frightened
, Hancock County Police officers thought the accident was caused by the train driver's heart attack, but when they boarded the train, they were as surprised as Horsfield's first moment: driving There is no driver at all indoors. What is even more frightening is that 25 carriages on this train are empty, 20 carriages are filled with paper and wood, and 2 carriages are actually filled with dissolved phenol—this is A dangerous industrial acid used in the manufacture of plastics, dyes, paints and pharmaceuticals, and as a disinfectant.
When it comes to the heroic act of picking up the car, Horsfield, 31, still seems to have lingering fears. He said: "At that time, my adrenaline increased sharply, and I didn't dare to be careless because I have a wife and a daughter at home. I don't want to. Do anything stupid."
At present, the National Transportation Safety Board and the Federal Railroad Administration have begun to investigate the matter, and CSX Transportation has also sent a special person to conduct a comprehensive investigation into the cause of the accident, in order to restore the damage to the company's reputation. Ren Feng
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