When I worked in Hunts Point one of our buildings had a railroad siding running through our driveway, between the street and our front doors. It ran down into the market area and was in use 24/7.
We polished sheet steel in this building and at times a dolly with skids of material weighting between 2/8000# would be pushed out into the driveway to await being pushed into the other side of the building.
One night the dolly was out there, just a bit too close and the corner of a skid of steel was caught by a step rail on the side of a box car. It drug the dolly down the track with it until it hit an employee’s car parked at the curb. It pushed the car forward under a truck loaded with 30,000# of steel awaiting processing.
Hitting the truck the car stopped, but the train did not. It proceed to peel the body off the frame and ball it under the truck until it tore the truck's complete rear end off the spring perches and pushed it under the truck bed. Only at this time did the train engineer notice the drag and stop the train to see what was going on!
