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Title: Train derailment
Post by: Meatwad on February 05, 2007, 09:53:00 PM

Look what happened about 6 miles from where I live. Local freight train derailed early saturday morning. Its still a mess there coming home from work today

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Title: Train derailment
Post by: AWMac on February 05, 2007, 09:59:03 PM

"Three Hobo's Injured, One Bottle of Wine Dead.... Film at 11:00..."

Mac

Title: Train derailment
Post by: Masherbrum on February 05, 2007, 10:04:08 PM

A shame those were Mitsubishi's in those carrier's.  

Title: Train derailment
Post by: sluggish on February 06, 2007, 06:00:00 AM

I bet that made a hell of a racket.

Title: Train derailment
Post by: MiloMorai on February 06, 2007, 06:15:32 AM

Just be thankful those tank cars didn't rupture. All kinds of hell could have broken loose.

http://pubs.acs.org/cen/news/83/i02/8302train.html
http://orangecounty.injuryboard.com/toxic-train-wreck-endangers-community.php

Title: Train derailment
Post by: Airscrew on February 06, 2007, 08:36:58 AM

"Hey folks, come on down to Posey Mitsubishi, we're havin a good old fashion Scratch and Dent sale.  Yes siree, our loss is your gain....most of these cars are just fine, in fact the damage can be buffed out..."

And they are definitely luck those tanks didnt rupture.

Title: Train derailment
Post by: midnight Target on February 06, 2007, 09:17:49 AM

A few years ago (1989) a train derailed coming down a mountain pass into San Bernardino. It was carrying borax from the desert I think, which caused the evacuation of a few square blocks of homes. While they were lifting a car later, an underground gas main 30" in diameter which had been damaged in the derailment burst and about 4 square blocks of homes were destroyed by the fire. If they hadn't been evacuated it would have been a huge disaster.

Title: Train derailment
Post by: ChickenHawk on February 06, 2007, 10:54:26 AM

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Originally posted by midnight Target
A few years ago (1989) a train derailed coming down a mountain pass into San Bernardino. It was carrying borax from the desert I think, which caused the evacuation of a few square blocks of homes. While they were lifting a car later, an underground gas main 30" in diameter which had been damaged in the derailment burst and about 4 square blocks of homes were destroyed by the fire. If they hadn't been evacuated it would have been a huge disaster.

I saw a documentary on that.  If I remember correctly, it was a clerical error that caused the train to be overloaded and it couldn't slow down coming down the pass.  A good example of the butterfly effect.

Title: Train derailment
Post by: Mickey1992 on February 06, 2007, 12:35:44 PM

Thanks for the link.  I forwarded it on to my Sister, she works for NS.

She says there is so little wiggle room in those car carriers that if one of them derails, even without going on its side, the cars inside get trashed because they bounce off of the sides.

Title: Train derailment
Post by: john9001 on February 06, 2007, 12:51:28 PM

i thought the cars were chained down, they are on the semi-trailer car carriers.

Title: Train derailment
Post by: Meatwad on February 06, 2007, 05:35:39 PM

The past few days, there has been a flatbed picking up the automobiles one by one. Apparently some arent that bad of shape because I seen some of them being driven around