AN AUSTRALIAN COMMUTER TRAIN WAS FORCED TO STOP and evacuate approximately 50 passengers early Wednesday morning when the undercarriage of one of the coaches started burning.
The METRO regional commuter line in Victoria, Australia, is an electric line and a late-night train’s pantograph (the device that rides under the electric wire and carries the current down to the train’s motor) snagged the transmission line, pulling it down where it became tangled between two coaches. The sudden short-circuit sent a power surge through the motors and started a fire underneath the car.
This photo taken on a stranded passenger’s cellphone
shows smoke pouring from the affected railcar.
(HWT Image library)
The train came to a halt and the passengers were safely evacuated without any encouragement needed.
The Herald-Sun has the STORY.
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