I have been hoping to find this story[1] ever since Eldon Harms told me about a derailment on the Grand Trunk, where local residents who came to gawk at the wreckage walked away with all the mayonnaise they could carry. And why not? It would only go to waste otherwise, wouldn't it?
The story is told in the Hobart Gazette of July 6, 1983, as part of a larger story about massive rainfall and flooding.
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Junk in the Woods: A Photo Essay
On a possibly related note, here are some pictures I took last fall of the junk in the woods of Deep River County Park, on the south side the train tracks, between the river and County Line Road. This junk may or may not be left over from the Great Mayonnaise Derailment of '83.
Some of these pictures include a 22-pound dog for scale.
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On the north side of the tracks in the same area, there is a rusty hunk of metal that looks like a car engine, but it's way up high on the steep embankment and I wasn't going to climb up there (much less walk out there on the tracks) to take a picture.
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[1] I had a little trouble finding it because Eldon remembered it as having occurred in the 1970s, and it didn't turn up in any of the online newspapers I searched.
1 comment:
This made me laugh a little, despite the great loss of mayonnaise.
This could easily become an urban legend. Something like "they say at night you can still hear the Miracle Whip bottles rolling down the hill".
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