jewels
05-27-2008, 06:34 AM
http://news.nky.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/AB/20080522/NEWS01/805220395/1056/NEWS0103
Scroll down until you can see the photo on the right. That orange-red thing is an 80 ton locomotive and it is the only thing holding up most of the bridge it's under. It was being trucked on a flatbed and the trailer came loose from the semi-tractor. Now it's the temporary bridge "pillar". The truck driver was really lucky.
Between the locomotive cost and the bridge cost, I wouldn't want to be the trucking company's insurer. As much as that road is used, I wouldn't want to try to get to the airport from the westside of Cincinnati/SE Indiana for the summer either.
Scroll down until you can see the photo on the right. That orange-red thing is an 80 ton locomotive and it is the only thing holding up most of the bridge it's under. It was being trucked on a flatbed and the trailer came loose from the semi-tractor. Now it's the temporary bridge "pillar". The truck driver was really lucky.
Between the locomotive cost and the bridge cost, I wouldn't want to be the trucking company's insurer. As much as that road is used, I wouldn't want to try to get to the airport from the westside of Cincinnati/SE Indiana for the summer either.