Conrail 6157 Crew Change
There are some moments, good and bad, that are forever stuck in your memory. Such was the case on the morning of January 29, 1994. Trudy and I headed out from our apartment in Beaver Falls and were driving up to CP WOOD. Suddenly TV-1 could be heard calling out on the scanner, emergency, emergency, emergency. The dispatcher answered and the engineer reported that as they were coming through New Brighton a person ran up to the tracks right in front of them and laid their head on the rail, committing suicide. We drove down to New Brighton and found the head end of TV-1 stopped on the Beaver River Bridge. The conductor was walking back to make a cut where the body lay. The railroad sent a new crew to relieve the unfortunate crew that had to deal with the fatality. The crew change is seen here in Beaver Falls, with the power and cut of cars, with the rest of the train still down in New Brighton. Once the scene was cleared, the new crew put the train back together and continued West.
Conrail 6157 Crew Change
There are some moments, good and bad, that are forever stuck in your memory. Such was the case on the morning of January 29, 1994. Trudy and I headed out from our apartment in Beaver Falls and were driving up to CP WOOD. Suddenly TV-1 could be heard calling out on the scanner, emergency, emergency, emergency. The dispatcher answered and the engineer reported that as they were coming through New Brighton a person ran up to the tracks right in front of them and laid their head on the rail, committing suicide. We drove down to New Brighton and found the head end of TV-1 stopped on the Beaver River Bridge. The conductor was walking back to make a cut where the body lay. The railroad sent a new crew to relieve the unfortunate crew that had to deal with the fatality. The crew change is seen here in Beaver Falls, with the power and cut of cars, with the rest of the train still down in New Brighton. Once the scene was cleared, the new crew put the train back together and continued West.