CSX has just derailed in East Rochester NY near CP 362. It does not look good. Report are still coming in. As far as i know train cars or cars are traped under the derail cars. More reports are to come. Stay tune for updates. Make that 3 derailments in a row.
All I can say is
WHHHHHHAAAAAAAAATTTT!!
Three wrecks in a row and 2 on one day! What’s wrong with them? Any newspapers have it on their websites yet?
Speaking of the wrecks, they mentioned the one in Louisville very briefly on ABC’s World News Tonight this evening. It wasn’t very much, but at least it made the news. I think CSX needs to be penalized or something. Wreck once, warning. Wreck twice, a ticket. Wreck the third time and YOU ARE IN TROUBLE! [swg][swg] Seriously, though, have any “chain-reactions” of wrecks on just one railroad happened like this before?
No not yet. Go to watch the 11:00 news so i can give you guys an update.
UPDATE!!! It was a westbound intermoble train out of Syracuse. Cars were crashed after the containers fell off a bridge. People are with out power. Stay tune for more updates as they come in.
Second Update. All trains heading east or westbound will be using EC1 form speed down to 30 MPH. Huge cleanup and the hasmat crews are on the sceen.
What is it they say about bad things coming in threes.
This will be a public relations nightmare for CSX, but also for all railroads. Even if all three are shown to be “unavoidable” (and we already know that the first one was definitely avoidable), those with legislative power will feel the need to “fix the problem”.
One railroad comes to mind. It was green had so many problems that NYC took it over. It showed all railroads HOW NOT to run a railroad and the name is PC or PENNCENTRAL!!!
Wow! I cannot believe it. At least this time it isn’t in my state.
local station was already doing what if reports about local yards for csx and ns last night on the news. stay safe
joe
Another Update with video. www.rnews.com has it. All eastbound trains were going on the westshore line. Their still more UPDATES to come as i hear my scanner is going off the hook.
It is an unclear if their is fourth derailment in the area that i am hearing on my scanner. Stay tune for more UPDATES as they come in.
matt
Perhaps they will start to maintain the trackage. [D)] Naaah! The old NYC main is closing in on being as bad as it was back in (UGH!)[V] 1975, dare I say. Yard trackage is getting worse every week. Trains are rocking while in Frontier yard, which is a poor sign of things to come if they don’t do some thing soon. We had a bad one (BUT no one was hurt) when CSX dumped Q626 at CP433 while trying to leave from the north side a few weeks back, another piece of luck was that the worst car was carrying canned veggies.[:-^] That’s better than, say, PVC or Chlorine, both of which run through here every day in nearly every train that is not an intermodal.
Their is not a fourth derailment in the area. Thank GOD for that. CSX is getting worse evry day. Just like PENNCENRAL railroad!!!
Here is another website www.wroctv.com. It shows and talks about the the train derailments and yes rail fans.
matt
I work as a yardmaster for one of the top 5 railroads. I personally am surprised we don’t have more incidents. I know from expericence how easy it is to put cars on the ground!!
All of these derailments.
Makes me think that there might be a possibility of enemy action.
It would be interesting to see some statistics on mainline derailments per ton-mile of freight carried. Exclude those ocurring within yard limits that happen frequently but because of the low speeds involved rarely present a serious danger to the public health and welfare. I’d bet the CSX would top the list of all the Class I roads but that’s just a gut feeling that could be confirmed by some meaningful comparative measurement.
Another interesting statistic would be a comparison of mainline derailments to $ per mile spent on track maintenance. Common sense tells me there is a correlation between the two. Here again I think the CSX would prove to have the worst record. We are all aware of the scathing FRA report on CSX track conditions that was issued two or three years ago. In all fairness to them, I believe CSX has upped their track maintenance expenditures since then but is still far from catching up with the maintenance that they formerly deferred.
Spend some time reading the messages posted on the CSX Sucks website and you can’t help but feel that employee morale is at a low point. There’s a wide gap between the lofty goals espoused by management and the working conditions and practices that affect the daily lives and welfare of CSX employees. Instinctively I feel a disgruntled and poorly motivated workforce plays a significant role in the CSX safety record. By comparison on my little old Kansas City Southern most employees are working in concert with management to achieve commonly shared goals and the railroad runs very well as a result.
CSX it’s time to wake up and remember the biblical admonition, You shall reap what you sow. The results of short term bottom line dictated management are showing up - almost daily now it seems.
Mark
Employee morale is about the same at every Class I railroad!
First off, it’s easy to cover them up in the yard. Because for the most part, they are out of the public eye, and don’t explode. I can rerail a car using a railroad tie, some wedges, and the frog of a turnout.
Second, you’d be surprised how difficult it can be to derail a car. It can also incredibly easy.
And yes, employee moral is pretty much the same with the four major US roads. Don’t believe everything you read on CSX-Sucks. Very little of the it is outright false, but some parts are more true the others.
It is true, CSX’s policy of cost-containment is finally coming back to haunt it. Both it’s rolling stock and infrastructure are worn out. Even the new, and well maintained stuff from Conrail, has been beat down. I once had a CSX employee tell me with a straight face, that Conrail overmaintained it track. Gee maybe that’s because Conrail ran a high-speed heavy duty railroad, and CSX still runs like a backhills coal hauler.
For those of you that are baseball fans…Conrail was the NY Yankees, and CSX is the Kansas City Royals. - My appologies to any Royals fans.
Nick