Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 10:15:16 -0800
On Monday morning, if someone would have told me that tumbleweeds could Stop a coal train, I would have said " your full of it, no way". That was until yesterday Morning, 12 miles west of Hardin, we were pulling up Rowley hill, going 15 Mph & the wind was blowing about 50 mph & we ran into thousand's of Tumbleweeds come to a dead stop in about 5 car length' s, they blew under Our Drivers & we lost all our traction & were dead in the water. We had 3 Engines & got 2 more engines off another train & Still couldn't move. We were stuck there for 5 hrs & 35 min. & finally Had to Back down the hill & let another crew take over because we ran out of TimeTo work, crazy huh?......Stacy
