CSX on the ground and on fire in the Rosedale section of Baltimore. Amtrak not affected:
http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/Derailed-Freight-Train-on-Fire-in-Baltimore-209211651.html
Wow! Go big or stay at home!!
A very childish subject heading. The wreck was caused by a trailer truck, not CSX.
Grow up.
Rich
Just a reminder, that despite all the fun of paint schemes, photos, steam runs, and other little trivia - deep down, railroading still is a dangerous job.
Be careful out there, everyone.
Until you titled this thread, I used to think highly of your contributions. Train hit a TRUCK on a road crossing.
Agree. It really was pointless and childish to go there.
Cell phone video
Warning: Bleeped profanity
http://news.msn.com/videos/?ap=True&videoid=1c673955-6500-4e36-b87f-865ffb641a56
And with a Child in the back seat.
First reports mentioned nothing of a collision - only that there had been a derailment and an explosion. If I’d known about the truck, I’d have mentioned it. CSX’s news release at 4:30 PM confirmed that the truck driver was injured.
There were two posts made here about the wreck at about the same time - neither mentioned the truck.
As for my mention of a nickname, it’s obvious that everyone knows what it is. Had there not been the truck involved, I’m sure that someone would have come up with it.
Hindsight is always 20-20. On Statter911, they have a name for it - keyboard incident commanders, or KICs.
Sorry if I offended anyone - I guess sarcasm is a dying art.
Jeez, one tiny gaffe and everyone jumps down your throat.
Larry, your posts have been outstanding since I’ve been on this forum. Your apology, while very professional of you, was not really necessary.
Sarcasm is not dead…the ability to identify it and know it is.
What the !@#$? What the 4 letter word?
Anyway its the age of Max Headroom where everybody is his or her own reporter…did you see the city bus running as if nothing had happened?
tree68:
“First reports mentioned nothing of a collision - only that there had been a derailment and an explosion.”
Same here. I had seen several reports that didn’t mention the truck, and I think the first time I heard about it was on this forum.
There has been a thread or two asking why railroads advertise. This could be one reason: as a customer they can protest to the media with a little more clout.
When trains derail from hitting vehicles, the pile up usually starts right at the point of impact. Yet this train ran 4000 feet or so after dumping the air. So the pileup must have happened far beyond the crossing and collision point. So how did the derailment develop in this wreck?
I can’t imagine the engines hitting a vehicle and then derailing over 4000 feet further down the track. If they could hit a truck and stay on the rails for 4000 feet, what then caused them to finally derail?
Or did the derailment occur mid-train due to dynamiting the brakes?
any pne have a link to the video of the collision that was on CBS?
Was it one of these?
One of the videos from the security cameras at ETT appeared to show the cars right behind the locomotives beginning to derail right after the collision.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2hkO2XD7dQ
Purely conjecture here, but I’m wondering if the truck that was hit somehow came around and tripped up the cars behind the locomotives, which then ran on their wheels on the ballast until one (or more) came uncoupled and piled up.
Or perhaps the brief jolt of the collision put them off the track, with the same result.
I haven’t been able to spot the locomotives in any of the aerial shots, which leads me
The ETT videos on youtube pretty much show this wreck. The train was moving at a pretty good clip. My opinion the person operating the trash hauler is going to have their CDL suspended. One of the news reports say CSX has evidence of the train blowing for the crossing. Too bad the waste company probably only has 2 million in insurance. Rgds IGN
Yes, I just looked at that video, and I think you are probably corr
The engines NEVER derailed. The first axle to derail was the leading axle of the first car, and that was dragged 4000 feet before the pileup began to pileup as it were.
ROAR