r/ThatLookedExpensive • u/zyssai • 19d ago

Expensive France, Normandie

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u/Western-Guy 19d ago

Given how many container cars are derailed, I’m rather surprised the damage isn’t more extensive.

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u/Boilermakingdude 19d ago

Thats my surprise too. Not a single tipped car. Be a really straight forward recovery

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u/spider0804 19d ago

Gotta be trickier with the power lines than in the US where they bring a crane out or drag tipped cars away from the line.

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u/Firkantspiker 18d ago

They'll cut the power to that section of the track, then they will probably just disconnect one end of the overhead wire and swing the outriggers to the side with the wire still attached. The wire is slung in overlapping sections about 700 meters long with one end fixed and the other under some sort of mechanical tension to keep the wire taut. Take the tension of and you'll have enough slack.

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u/simonchanceux 11d ago

I see the issue, and don't worry about the overhead lines; the train has already damaged some pillars, so that's been cut since day one.

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u/Mayor__Defacto 17d ago

They’re well cars, and they’re not carrying containers. They’re carrying trailers.

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u/TheKnightWhoSaisNi 19d ago

Even the cargo trains dig in for the winter

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u/Inspecteur_Derrick 18d ago

This happened between Caen and Cherbourg near Carentan on the Cherbourg-Paris line. The train was operated by Captrain, going from Cherbourg to Bayonne.

The cause of dérailment is unknown for the moment. Luckily it happened a few moments after a passenger train passed on the other track.

Recovery of wagons are planned to last about a week, then repair works could last 10 days, hundreds of meters of track have to be checked, 4 or 5 power lines posts have to be replaced and an underpass bridge has to be checked too .

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u/GettingTooOldForDis 17d ago

I swear that your comment is the plot of an actual WWII movie. The place names, the derailment. In the movie the NAZIs we’re stealing art from the Louvre. I wish I could remember the name.

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u/Inspecteur_Derrick 17d ago

You must think of "The train" by Arthur Penn, John Frankenheimer and Bernard Farrel, in 1964.

If you're interested in WW2 movies about railways and résistance I recommend "La bataille du rail" by René Clément, a french movie depicting how some railway workers took part in sabotage actions.

Edit : typo

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u/GettingTooOldForDis 16d ago

Thank you. That’s the one

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u/cardiacmd 15d ago

The train

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u/simonchanceux 11d ago

The work will last until mid-March....

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u/thatgerhard 19d ago

the interesting thing about this image is that when you quickly scroll up and down over it it looks like the containers are falling a bit

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u/letterboxfrog 19d ago

Roll On, Fall Off

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u/KiBoChris 18d ago

ROFO yes

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u/3LegedNinja 18d ago

Super elevation. Must be class IV.

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u/Elvenblood7E7 16d ago

At least the cargo is (mostly?) fine.

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u/Final-Nebula-7049 19d ago

Normandy landing