Trying out new software, the C.V.S.Ry. office staff put together a all caboose passenger run and sent orders to the crew to test the run before advertising to the public. The orders did not specify the blocking order and the crew assembled the train with the lightest caboose first and the largest last. Just after leaving Wall station about 3/4 of the way up the steep grade this proved to be a fatal mistake. The coupling between engine and the caboose train let go and the three cabeese careened down the long grade, through Coal Dump curve on what seemed like one rail and sped toward West Escap’e with two crew on board.
While speeding over East Escap’e bridge one of the crew was throw from the train and beheaded on the gorge floor. The caboose train made it through a series of switches on the indoor division and came to rest in perfect alignment at the passenger platform of Honey Grove.
The name of the deceased crew member is being witheld pending notification of kin. You all will remember him as the freindly conductor that usually rides on the rear of the RGS caboose…
The conductor’s body was recovered but his head has gone missing. Should it be located soon there may be hope it can be re-attached and the conductor brought back from the dead to ride once again.
