Just received an e-mail with a sequence of pictures from a recent crossing collision in Northern BC.
A 177 loads – 0 empties – 10077 tons – 10971 ft. freight hit a logging truck on a private crossing.
Looks like a big mess, luckily only minor injuries.
Appears like the logging company is employing visually/aurally impaired drivers.
Where’s the pictures? You KNOW what we say here! 
Yeah, yeah, but I don’t think that’s a good idea, too risqué.
This is the gist:
A private road? I wonder if the engineer sounded the horn for a grade crossing.
I also wonder what the crossing was like. Would a truck driver at the crossing have clear view up and down the tracks for a considerable distance or not? When I tested for my CDL, all commercial motor vehicles were supposed to stop before crossing train tracks, and the driver was supposed to look both ways to make sure it was safe to proceed before proceeding.
David Maynard said:
A private road? I wonder if the engineer sounded the horn for a grade crossing.
I also wonder what the crossing was like. Would a truck driver at the crossing have clear view up and down the tracks for a considerable distance or not? When I tested for my CDL, all commercial motor vehicles were supposed to stop before crossing train tracks, and the driver was supposed to look both ways to make sure it was safe to proceed before proceeding.
Looking at the pictures clear view for some distance.
Location: Google Earth 54°21’21.08" N 125°55’36.30" W
HJ; That was not a log truck it was a Tooth pick truck. Had it been some real logs there would have been allot more damage! A log is 3 or 4 feet in diameter!
Paul
E. Paul Austin said:
HJ; That was not a log truck it was a Tooth pick truck. Had it been some real logs there would have been allot more damage! A log is 3 or 4 feet in diameter!
Paul
It’s all about the product (SPF= Spruce, Pine, Fir), as you’ll see on their website
E. Paul Austin said:
HJ; That was not a log truck it was a Tooth pick truck. Had it been some real logs there would have been allot more damage! A log is 3 or 4 feet in diameter!
Paul
Yea, well old growth trees are becoming less common in the lumber industry. The younger growth trees are much smaller, and the lumber from them seams (to me) to be more prone to warping and twisting.
Reading too many books about older Logings Railroads here in Western Washington!
Paul
Yea, I see them olde pictures in them books and I marvel that trees could even get to be that big. You don’t hardly see em that big round anymore.
From what I read in various books: the white man showed up, looked at all the trees and the land, looked at all the fish, looked at all the wild life and figured this will last forever.
It was just like it is today, forever is the distance some people can see past their nose or project as their life time.