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Bridge collapses in Kentucky after being rammed by hulking freighter carrying space rocket parts
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Posted on 01/27/2012 12:02:50 PM PST by Mountain Bike Vomit Carnage
Incredible images emerged of a hulking freighter wearing mangled pieces of a steel bridge on its bow after a collision in southwestern Kentucky Thursday night.
In the pictures, the 312-foot Delta Mariner idles, still partially in the bridge's path, and clearly looks much too large to fit beneath the aging Eggner Ferry Bridge, which crosses the Kentucky Lake Reservoir.
The cargo vessel was carrying space rocket parts for the United Launch Alliance, intended for a vehicle that was scheduled to be shot into orbit from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2092796/Bridge-collapses-Kentucky-rammed-hulking-freighter-carrying-space-launch-equipment.html#ixzz1kgpuK4pc
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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bridgecollapse; nasa
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To: Jack Hydrazine
Yep, that’s the Gregson Street Trestle in downtown Durham, NC just a few miles from where I sit now. The owner of that channel has two cameras setup in different buildings covering that old trestle (built around 1910). He has captured an average of one crash *per month* in the past four years.
The railroad (not sure which one) that owns the bridge put that steel I-beam in front of it years ago. The vast majority of impacts are strictly to the crash beam because it’s usually hit by box trucks that just get peeled back like a sardine can when they meet that heavy steel. The crash that bent the bar, though, actually *did* contact the trestle deck, because that was a heavy piece of machinery instead of a flimsy trailer box. (It’s also claimed a couple of RV’s air conditioning units, and some haybales, in the past year or so.)
}:-)4
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posted on
01/27/2012 12:34:16 PM PST
by
Moose4
("Oderint dum metuant" -- "Let them hate, as long as they fear." (Lucius Accius, c. 130 BC))
To: Mountain Bike Vomit Carnage
Mitt will do anything to stop Newt !
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posted on
01/27/2012 12:35:19 PM PST
by
SecondAmendment
(Restoring our Republic at 9.8357x10^8 FPS)
To: Mad Dawgg
"I'm not stuck. I'm delivering this bridge and lost the address."
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posted on
01/27/2012 12:39:34 PM PST
by
knittnmom
(Save the earth! It's the only planet with chocolate!)
To: Mountain Bike Vomit Carnage
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posted on
01/27/2012 12:39:58 PM PST
by
mylife
(The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
To: Mountain Bike Vomit Carnage
“The Mate was a mighty sailin’ man...”
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posted on
01/27/2012 12:40:15 PM PST
by
Charles Martel
(Endeavor to persevere...)
To: Mountain Bike Vomit Carnage
Can you imagine what it was like in the pilot house?
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posted on
01/27/2012 12:45:20 PM PST
by
mylife
(The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
To: Moose4
I love the “13 crashes in 13 months” compilation!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PkS6LnirRI
I love it when the trucks hit hard enough for the front wheels to get some air or have the whole top peel off like a sardine can!
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posted on
01/27/2012 12:45:45 PM PST
by
Jack Hydrazine
(It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
To: Mountain Bike Vomit Carnage
![](http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/01/27/article-0-117D535B000005DC-431_964x503.jpg)
"So how was your day?"
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posted on
01/27/2012 12:54:08 PM PST
by
Marko413
To: Mountain Bike Vomit Carnage
Wonder if they would have made it if they sailed under the middle of the bridge, where it is higher? Hard to tell?
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posted on
01/27/2012 12:55:24 PM PST
by
rawhide
To: Mountain Bike Vomit Carnage
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posted on
01/27/2012 12:57:59 PM PST
by
A Texan
(Oderint dum metuant)
To: Mountain Bike Vomit Carnage
Canadian captain. They told him the clearance in yards, not meters.
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posted on
01/27/2012 12:58:07 PM PST
by
Poser
(Cogito ergo Spam - I think, therefore I ham)
To: Quick Shot
Was the Captain, by any chance, a just hired Italian, and is there a cute blonde in the story... I was wondering the same thing.
To: Mountain Bike Vomit Carnage
Only two questions. Who had this bright idea????? Do they still have a job???
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posted on
01/27/2012 1:06:38 PM PST
by
oldenuff2no
(Rangers lead the way...... Delta, the original European home land security)
To: Mountain Bike Vomit Carnage
Did someone forget that it has been a very rainy year in the area and the river might be a tad higher than normal? The lead traffic story today in Dayton was someone trying to drive over a bridge that was completely underwater and his car was swept downstream.
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01/27/2012 1:10:20 PM PST
by
KarlInOhio
(Herman Cain: possibly the escapee most dangerous to the Democrats since Frederick Douglass.)
To: rawhide
Wonder if they would have made it if they sailed under the middle of the bridge, where it is higher? Hard to tell? It appears they used the wrong ship channel. - tom
The U.S. Coast Guard reported on January 27 that the Delta Mariner hit the bridge when it tried to pass through what is known as the ,recreational channel, which has a lower clearance, instead of the shipping channel, which the vessel normally used.[5]
To: Jack Hydrazine
I love the 13 crashes in 13 months compilation!Some of those were rental trucks. Wouldn't you have loved to have been a fly on the wall when they returned them?
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01/27/2012 1:19:18 PM PST
by
Hoffer Rand
(There ARE two Americas: "God's children" and the tax payers)
To: KarlInOhio
We live on State Route 7 in Gallia County, OH. This time of year, with all the leaves being off the trees, and with the river up, it looks like the barges are riding on the field across the road from us! LOL Last night, with all the fog, I kept hearing the horns of the barges from the river. We’ve only lived here since June, so it still makes me jump when I hear them in the stillness of a late night or early morning.
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posted on
01/27/2012 1:24:43 PM PST
by
Hoosier Catholic Momma
(How long till my Arkansas drawl fades into the twang of southeast Ohio?)
To: Mountain Bike Vomit Carnage
“Moments before the crash, the Captain was seen cheerfully waiving to the passengers on the bridge below...”
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01/27/2012 1:26:24 PM PST
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Atlas Sneezed
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To: Rightly Biased
it doesnt look like it would have fit under any of the spans Maybe not if the ballast was incorrect, but it looks like the center span would have been a little higher. The ship has taken that route before.
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01/27/2012 1:29:31 PM PST
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