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Message:: [QUOTE="OLDSKOOLERnWV, post: 12304755, member: 76004"]Yes.  I put my hand on the concrete pier that still has the indention from the impact. Drove across the bridge in my Freightliner Hirail truck. I have a picture I took of the monument on the east side of the river.  Kinda eerie in a sense when it’s quiet and you think of those who were trying to survive as well as help others. My EIC ( Employee in Charge) when I took the equipment out in to the swamp for a cable job told us about that night. He was there shortly after the wreck. He said if the engine could have went another 50 feet the engineers possibly may have survived. He said when the engine plowed in to the ground, the engine buried into the soft marsh, and exploded the glass out crushing the engineers against the back of the cab. I can’t remember precisely Reo, but I’m thinking he said the rail was like 27” out of alignment. When the Sunset cleared the yard and Chicasaboue (spelling)  bridge it started picking up speed. Bayou Canot is a couple miles north from there….  Actually east but going from Mobile to Pensacola is north bound to csx, and Mobile to Gintilly yard in New Orleans is south bound to csx.[/QUOTE]