Brock Sarbeck’s Photo of Three 737 Fuselages Derailed into Montana’s Clark Fork River — Says Pretty Much All that Needs to Be Said about Incompetent American Railroading
© 2014 Peter Free
16 July 2014
Visual metaphors don’t get better than this one
Take a look at Brock Sarbeck’s (Wiley E. Waters Whitewater Rafting) photograph — attached to the below URL link — of three Boeing 737 fuselages that an American railroad dumped into the Clark Fork River in Montana after derailing:
Brock Sarbeck and Associated Press, Three Boeing 737 Fuselages Fell Into A River, And They Have No Idea How To Get Them Out, via Business Insider (06 July 2014)
The moral? — American railroads are perpetually in the news and not for anything admirable
A less infrastructurally complacent nation might be embarrassed.