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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Fester" data-source="post: 375007" data-attributes="member: 6300">If the railroad knows the bridge will collapse why would they continue to run trains over it? And yes they know when a bridge will collapse(engineers, inspections etc). This bridge from my understanding did not collapse because of direct bridge failure but because the train derailed prior to the bridge then ran into the bridge causing the failure. So in this case I would guess this is a track related and bridge collapse due to secondary impact.I have been watching this friend's of the rail bridge fairly closely as one of the guys spear heading it is Mark Zimmerman....imagine that. Anyways from what I have seen..so far is this has not held up the replacement of the bridge and has continued to be on schedule...now if they sued in court yes that could change things at this point. What i could see is the railroad shutting down the line if this happened and if that happened it probably would inact the feds and friends of railroad would be told to take a hike....railroads are very powerful and ruthless. I could also see the railroad if in some way they wanted to go after friends of the rail bridge and anyone involved financially....not sure how that would all play out but it sure wouldn't surprise me.Not 100% sure on the whole secondary bridge impact thing. Thought I read it someplace...read another article saying they are not sure which occurred first...we will see. I would find it very hard to believe it was a bridge issue first.</blockquote>

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