I have a train losing construction story. Or at least sorta losing.
A company that is now gone had a project between Phx and Tucson. I knew several of the old timers who worked on it. This was 50 years ago in the golden age of wild west builders.
They got a 631 CAT scraper hung up on the tracks. When they could see the train coming, the RR flagger who was carrying the warning light panicked and ran. So did the scraper operator.
When the engineer finally figured out what was going on it was too late. They hit the brakes AND the scraper. In the process, the train started pushing the rail out across the desert like spaghetti. To hear them tell it, the dust cloud was magnificent.
The train derailed and it was just a hell of a mess. Miraculously nobody was killed except the company. When my buddy drove up to the locomotive laying on it’s side, the engineer was running around covered is dust yelling “Somebody’s going to f*king jail!”.