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BNSF reopens Texas main line following three-train collision
Guess.
Crew of second train asleep.
Is it my imagination or does BNSF do a pretty good job running one train into another? Hasn’t this headline appeared a few times over the last few years?
Thank god we didnt have another goodwell oklahoma this time. All our railroad brothers survived. We pray that the injured make a full and speedy recovery.
The Amarillo Globe News web site (www.amarillo.com) has a link on its main page with the caption “Train wreck injures 4”. Following the link will take you to a photo gallery that includes photos of the wrecked equipment, plus photos of the crews restoring the track.
I wonder how it happened. It was only two tracks so the east or westbound trains that weren’t in the siding would have had to run a red. Thank goodness it wasn’t a head on collision with the east and westbound
kind’a sounds like a collision in augusta ks. a stopped grain-train got pile-drived from behind by a stack-train that ran 2 red signals, then a northbound stack-train on the 2nd main pile-drived the wreckage at 45mph./back then '08 the cleanup alone was early estimated at 8 million? I am sure it went higher in damages than that.
kind’a sounds like a collision in augusta ks. a stopped grain-train got pile-drived from behind by a stack-train that ran 2 red signals, then a northbound stack-train on the 2nd main pile-drived the wreckage at 45mph./back then '08 the cleanup alone was early estimated at 8 million? I am sure it went higher in damages than that.
kind’a sounds like a collision in augusta ks. a stopped grain-train got pile-drived from behind by a stack-train that ran 2 red signals, then a northbound stack-train on the 2nd main pile-drived the wreckage at 45mph./back then '08 the cleanup alone was early estimated at 8 million? I am sure it went higher in damages than that.
kind’a sounds like a collision in augusta ks. a stopped grain-train got pile-drived from behind by a stack-train that ran 2 red signals, then a northbound stack-train on the 2nd main pile-drived the wreckage at 45mph./back then '08 the cleanup alone was early estimated at 8 million? I am sure it went higher in damages than that.
kind’a sounds like a collision in augusta ks. a stopped grain-train got pile-drived from behind by a stack-train that ran 2 red signals, then a northbound stack-train on the 2nd main pile-drived the wreckage at 45mph./back then '08 the cleanup alone was early estimated at 8 million? I am sure it went higher in damages than that.
kind’a sounds like a collision in augusta ks. a stopped grain-train got pile-drived from behind by a stack-train that ran 2 red signals, then a northbound stack-train on the 2nd main pile-drived the wreckage at 45mph./back then '08 the cleanup alone was early estimated at 8 million? I am sure it went higher in damages than that.
kind’a sounds like a collision in augusta ks. a stopped grain-train got pile-drived from behind by a stack-train that ran 2 red signals, then a northbound stack-train on the 2nd main pile-drived the wreckage at 45mph./back then '08 the cleanup alone was early estimated at 8 million? I am sure it went higher in damages than that.
Having survived a similar scenario, I sympathize with the crews and their families.
Someone was asleep at the wheel. Of course this brings out another call for crash avoidance systems. The trouble is they tell you where the engine is but not where the end of the train is.
Like many, I suspect, I wondered just how 3 trains might collide. General news reports did not mention that 2 adjacent main lines were involved. Aha! Thanks, Trains, for the clarification.
Head end asleep at 4 AM?