A Very Bad Day on the Railroad What an Absolute Mess

No one ever gets to see this We an awful time here this morning and it was 5 degrees out 2 hopper cars had their doors open up and coal filled the track up And, 22 locomotive had shut down coming down track and wouldn t start. Coming down track at Mile Post 3. 2 one hopper car had it s doors opened and spread coal out. We figure because it was so cold that night that coal had frozen to the doors and wouldn t allow the doors to shut properly and lock over when it was last dumped, but at least the car didn t derail. The operator had no clue this had happened while traveling down track. Couple of miles down track that car separated from the train, a pull apart which after the air loss caused the train to go into emergency. The operator walked back and also some more coal had fallen out where it stopped and was blocking the wheels. He decided to take the 35 remaining loaded cars back and get them dumped and leave the empty and 2 loads alo