{"id":8833,"date":"2025-02-28T17:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-01T00:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=8833"},"modified":"2025-02-27T17:23:55","modified_gmt":"2025-02-28T00:23:55","slug":"little-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=8833","title":{"rendered":"Little Things?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Just before 3:30 p.m., Oct. 15, 2023, 30 railcars of a coal train derailed near milepost 109, roughly 5 miles north of Pueblo along I-25. Six railcars dropped to the highway below, killing a truck driver and closing lanes of I-25 for days.\u00a0<\/em>– Colorado Springs Gazette, February 19, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I wrote about this<\/a> when it happened because my son Mark and I with my granddaughter Kesley had driven under that bridge just 25 hours earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n

\n
\"\"<\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Why am I writing about the derailment today? Because they’ve discovered the cause:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sixteen months after a fatal derailment of a coal-carrying train crossing above Interstate 25 north of Pueblo, the final investigative report about the crash has been released, pinpointing blame on a bad track weld<\/strong> done earlier that year…Last week’s report cited the probable cause of the derailment as a failed thermite weld,<\/strong> done less than five months earlier. The report indicates that two sections of track were offset by three-sixteenths of an inch, and that the ensuing gap wasn’t properly handled by the welder.<\/strong><\/em> (emphasis mine)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“…wasn’t properly handled by the welder.” Solutions involve more inspections and retraining of welders. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’ll bet you haven’t given much thought to the folks who weld train tracks together. Me neither. Every job is important. Every worker is important. There’s no such thing as “just a welder.” This is the person responsible for the safety of trains and even road traffic under railroad bridges. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Catch us the foxes, the little foxes that spoil the vines… (Song of Songs 2.15, NKJV)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jesus went on to make these comments: If you\u2019re honest in small things, you\u2019ll be honest in big things; If you\u2019re a crook in small things, you\u2019ll be a crook in big things. If you\u2019re not honest in small jobs, who will put you in charge of the store? (Luke 16.10, 11, MSG)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just before 3:30 p.m., Oct. 15, 2023, 30 railcars of a coal train derailed near milepost 109, roughly 5 miles north of Pueblo along I-25. Six railcars dropped to the highway below, killing a truck driver and closing lanes of I-25 for days.\u00a0– Colorado Springs Gazette, February 19, 2025 I wrote about this when it … Continue reading Little Things?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8X9bo-2it","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8833"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8835,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8833\/revisions\/8835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}