CSX 8888 a.k.a "Crazy Eights" had ANOTHER INCIDENT?

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I didn’t expect this or notice this, but I decided I would get this delivered to the forum since I just found out about this. CSX 8888 got involved in a derailment on January 6, 2003 at Toledo, Ohio. But it was repaired.

Photo of Crazy Eights’ second wreck.

Original link: https://locomotive.fandom.com/wiki/CSX_No._8888
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Original link: https://locomotive.fandom.com/wiki/CSX_No._8888

Looks like Crazy Eights must have woke up and chose violence in the early 2000s.

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Looks like it got sideswiped in a yard incident. Yard incidents are not uncommon.

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It wasn’t a wreck the first time though? It was a runaway, but it didn’t derail; the only damage to it as far as I’m aware and can think of would be the brake shoes and the area around the emergency fuel stop button (It was shot at multiple times)

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I’ve edited the title changing accident to incident.

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Ok, wasn’t sure if I was WAY off or not idk

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  • Near miss (also called a close call or near hit): An unplanned event that could have caused injury or damage but didn’t. A hammer falls from a scaffold and lands where someone had been standing 10 seconds earlier. Nobody hurt, nothing damaged. Still a near miss.
  • Incident: An unplanned event that disrupts normal work. It may or may not cause injury. A worker trips over an unsecured extension cord, stumbles, catches themselves. No injury, but the event happened. Some definitions classify near misses as a type of incident.
  • Accident: An unplanned event that did cause injury, illness, or property damage. That same hammer hits someone’s shoulder. Now it’s an accident, a Worker’s Comp/WCB claim, and a potential OSHA/OHS investigation.

I’m reasonably sure that the damage in the second ‘incident’ resulted from some reasonably avoidable error or missed safety procedure – hence, incident.