Boeing dealing with severed rail link for 737 production

[MarkR]

Collapsed Montana bridge forces Boeing into logistical somersault to maintain 737 production

https://theaircurrent.com/feed/dispa...37-production/

I wonder if anyone thought this might happen!

[Greg Hyde]

Transporting fuselages by rail with has had problems more often than you think

Derailed Train in Montana Sends Boeing Fuselages Into River

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...-river-n149321

[James Smith]

Two successful water landings but one with a critical gash to its fuselage. This is not the first train derailment with 737 freight aboard.

[MarkR]

Originally Posted by James Smith

Two successful water landings but one with a critical gash to its fuselage. This is not the first train derailment with 737 freight aboard.

Problem is this one was not a derailment, the bridge is gone.

[Adrian B]

Article mentions they are offloading then trucking the fuselages 10km around the incident then reloading onto trains.

[James Smith]

The news item that Greg posted doesn't mention a bridge collapse, just the derailment. Do you know if the derailment caused the bridge to collapse, Mark?

Searching media posts a bit further, a train derailed and the bridge collapsed on the Yellowstone River on 24 June, with no mention of Boeing fuselages involved, but this later incident was on 4 July on the Clark Fork River, though both in Montana.

[MarkR]

Originally Posted by James Smith

The news item that Greg posted doesn't mention a bridge collapse, just the derailment. Do you know if the derailment caused the bridge to collapse, Mark?

Searching media posts a bit further, a train derailed and the bridge collapsed on the Yellowstone River on 24 June, with no mention of Boeing fuselages involved, but this later incident was on 4 July on the Clark Fork River, though both in Montana.

The item posted by Greg is from 9 years ago, the bridge collapse was two weeks ago, see

https://railfan.com/boeing-fuselages...ed-mrl-bridge/