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[fifer]

From a friend today.
On Monday morning, Nov 19, 2007 just12 miles west of Amarillo, 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 Time To work, crazy huh?......Stacy


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Mike

 

[steamhead]

Is this the same event that was posted here about 1-2 months back, or is it another..??

 

[McGilliCutty]

Yup, posted on 1-8-2008... http://forum.zealot.com/t155344/
Same one... one of the pictures match.

 

[Colton_modeler]

I never would have imagined a train being stopped by a tumbleweed-drift.

 

[Russ Bellinis]

Rowly Hill is thr right name, but it isn't West of Amarillo, it is up in Montana. Having helped my brother move to Oklahoma City last year, I don't think we encountered so much as a dry wash between Tucumcarry N.M. and the Oklahoma border. No hills at all.