Go get the wrecker

[Mr Fixit]

Same bridge same day same wreck. This one stayed dry though.

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Lester, I dont know if it is the camera angle or not, but it looks like your track and bridge engineers [and crews] weren't getting along, judging by that kink in the alignment just at the joint between the bridge span and the approach trackwork. While your interviewing them both, ask why no gauntlet rails were installed on the approach and across the bridge deck span. There maybe more to this than meets the eye. If gauntlet rails are missing, what else could be or is missing. Is someone on "the fiddle"? Was someone "saving" reo bar in the abutments, and the gauntlet rail for use elsewhere, or pocketing the money saved? Why were the missing rails not noted at the Bridge Handover Inspection? Why have your Track Inspectors not noted this, or if they have, where has the management chain broken down?
Might be something to note in your Accident Report to Senior Management as to the cause of this expensive accident.
Mark