Train jumped the tracks last night..

This is pictures of it today. North of me.

15 Cars of the 98 car train jumped the tracks.

I think of that a lot when I'm on the river where the tracks run along it. Every once in awhile a car or two ends up in it.

The boys will be making good OT money.
You gotta be on the ball working train wrecks.Lots of bent steel under stress,got to be careful cutting it.
Some de-railments are pretty routine,but wrecks are something else.Worked an acid trainwreck once in dead of winter.Sulfuric acid puddles under the snow all over the place.
Google-Bleve.

Where was that,,I didn't see it in the news anywhere?

Any beer cars ...LOL

https://www.wgrz.com/article/news/l.../71-08f29ee2-4a0c-46da-9ed0-f963eb83e280

I worked for Hulcher Services doing that Boco.
Wickedest thing I ever experienced.

Thanks.

I heard New York was de-railing but this is something else!

Pop always said “she was so ugly, she’d make a train jump the tracks and head down a dirt road.”

The question is did they get there money back? Yes or no or maybe so?

Keith

Wow.....

I got a friend up east of Abilene I used to sell fur to his dad that does that work. They get paid well when they are gone.
He is easy to remember because he can set 330s with his hand one right after another so we never arm wrestled him LOL

Dont recognize the paint job. Is that some short line or class 2 railroad?

As a firefighter , very familiar with that term.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_liquid_expanding_vapor_explosion

Very scary stuff , glad my FD gets very few calls like that.

When I lived in NW PA. Those were the colors of our old Bessemer-Lake Erie engines, but that was 40 years ago.

turtles are startin to lay their eggs--just sayin.

Ive seen 40 loaded coal cars piled up in a 100 yrd. stretch,always in the dead of winter.Fun times!

The moisture in rotten ties will freeze and they get brittle and break under load... That allows the rails to shift away from each other and then you've got a mess.

That's how it was explained to me by a MOW worker.

Mike

Overhead view of the Train wreck.

So I'm guessing the locomotives derailed first?

Mike

I read reports that people were hearing a loud squealing sound from the train in different Towns, that the Train ran through that Night. I wonder if one of the wheels came off the tracks, and hit one of the rails at a siding.

Was the guy divorced Left Lane?
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