GM Rail Yard Oshawa

[TDIGUY]

Just got this emailed to me at work. Happened this morning in Oshawa.

This incident happened about a hour ago in the Oshawa CP Rail yard which ships out the GM vehicles.
One of the car men who attaches and detaches the car haulers, accidentally unhooked a set of train cars without having the brakes applied.
The Oshawa rail yard has a slight incline to it, so when the set of cars was unhooked from the engine it started to roll down the hill, it smashed through the stop block and then through the fence and continue into the parking lot where GM stores the new vehicles that come off the line.
Over 300 vehicles were damaged. Enjoy the pictures.

[soundwave]

damm

[Jettaboj]

They'll just crush em and rebuild. Prolly treat it as a crash test car and change up their inventory count on the lost product.

[TDIGUY]

it's actually CP's fault so I am assuming they will be paying for it either way.

[Raz]

It's okay, the union will protect his job.

[Zuber Speed]

^^

LOL!

[Ricas]

Insurance FTW!!

[Raz]

Averaging the car cost to say, $25,000 per car, in one fell swoop of fergetfelness (spelled wrong on purpose), he managed to rack up 7.5 MILLION (retail) dollars worth of damages in a few seconds. Noice, mad respek.

[CaptainSlow]

They'll just crush em and rebuild. Prolly treat it as a crash test car and change up their inventory count on the lost product.

Those vehicles are going to the auction... well the not so bad ones.

[green337]

It is all covered under CP rails insurance, it is a write off for them and all cars involved will be cut up and sold off as scrap. They have an agreement where they only pay out the whole sale cost of the inventory.
And yes the union will protect the people involved but they will pulled out of service pending a statement and also be tested for cause. (drug and alcohol use)

[EMSbyDay]

hahahahah awesome

[TDIGUY]

yeah I was told it was about $9 Million Damage.

[amos0w]

sweet!

[green337]

Ohh one more thing this happened almost 3 years ago!

[brendan_435]

yeah i was going to say....those are all the old model silverados.
and didn't they shift truck production to somewhere in the states and move the camaros to oshawa?

[green337]

Yes, exactly if it happened today it would be all camaros lol

[TDIGUY]

Yeah that would make sense. I was told it was today so I went with it.

[stonersvr6]

ummm.... fail

[TDI_race]

I can only imagine the "oh shit" feeling that guy was having

I'm fairly certain that a bunch of these vehicles were used in an auto extrication competition in Burlington that I went to see

[Neb]

It is all covered under CP rails insurance, it is a write off for them and all cars involved will be cut up and sold off as scrap. They have an agreement where they only pay out the whole sale cost of the inventory.
And yes the union will protect the people involved but they will pulled out of service pending a statement and also be tested for cause. (drug and alcohol use)

I'm sure he still got paid though when he was off on his 'vacation'

[green337]

Sometimes, if the Union brings it to arbitration from the outcome of the statment (s) the company will cover off the loss of wages that were incurred during the period of being out of service.

[Dwn Dak]

That would have sucked big time...

Do you work for CP there TDI GUY or ?? I'll take a free frieghter ride anytime.. haha. ..

[jasonsmeall]

they are all shitty trucks anyway

[TDIGUY]

Nope, just got it sent to me from a friend

[Evilsage]

lol I used to guard that yard for work.

[hogo]

You mean you used to watch tv and sleep in the booths on the west side of stevenson.

[DrZEUS]

crazy....thats a lotta insurance money!

[Evilsage]

You mean you used to watch tv and sleep in the booths on the west side of stevenson.

lol no I was the mobile patrol, so I used to drive around then park and watch a movie

[ABAGTI]

lol no I was the mobile patrol, so I used to drive around then park and watch a movie

sounds like a very labor intensive job lol

[Evilsage]

lol oh it was drive around and look at Camaro's and trucks all night