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.