Tuesday
– photo by Mitch Waxman
While walking along the Great Allegheny Passage or ‘GAP’ trail between the Pittsburgh area communities of Duquesne and Homestead, one encountered this rather worrying series of signs. The trail is set along a fairly level former rail road right of way, and is generally paved with asphalt or crushed limestone, but looming above it is a several hundred foot high…
“Rockslide Derails CPR Train West Of Schreiber,” Sault Star. April 16, 1942. Page 12.
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NORTH BAY, ONT. April 16— (CP) — The engine and one truck of the mail car of a Canadian Pacific Railway train were derailed Wednesday night when a rockslide hit the track one mile east of Kama, 46 miles west of Schreiber.
B. J. Quilty, general superintendent of the Canadian Pacific Railway, Algoma district said today that nobody was injured. He added that the line was expected to be cleared shortly after noon today.
Trains Nos. 4 and 8 were delayed while train No. 1 is being held at Schreiber until the track is clear. A rather high rock cliff stands at the point at which the derailment occurred. Some of the rock had fallen and blocked the line. The entire engine and tender left the track, but only one truck of the next car, the mail car, was thrown off.
In the 1950s, the US National Park Service acquired M27 recoilless rifles from the military.
Their stated use was to trigger controlled avalanches, but a recent analysis of ammunition purchases shows they used many times more rounds than necessary.