The least interesting disaster in transit history
The technology? It was a boring old bus. It runs on gasoline. (Well, ideally). The only thing that might make it worthy of note is a pricing scheme that cuts intercity fares to as low as $1.
The failure? They ran out of gasoline on the way from Cleveland to Chicago. Nobody got hurt, just delayed about two hours.
Isn't there an overturned hydrofoil or something to write about?
What a slow news day!
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rj3 | 3:33 PM |
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I remember a train that ran out of fuel between Sheffield and Derby a few years back, because they'd used a locomotive with smaller fuel tanks than the one booked for that diagram.
What's amusing is that there was discussion on a railfan mailing list noticing that it hadn't been refuelled before starting the return trip, and predicted exactly *where* it would run out of fuel *before* it did!
