Today I saw a couple of cars on the ground near the Amtrak Station in Richmond VA…
Have not heard any news on this?
Why is it always CSX we get derailment news about? It just seems odd now. Especially when it’s statistically proven that UP has more derailments.
I’m sorry. I went off on a tangent. I don’t have any info on this incident, but i’d expect someone soon will
NS throws them on the ground pretty often. I think we should hear more about them as well.
NS doesn’t have the defer maintaince plan like CSX does, really I think CSX should change name to Penn Central at least then we would all understand why they keep putting train on the ground.[(-D]
This train derailed about 3+ weeks ago. I came through on #80 on Thursday 5/1- and was surprised to see them still there.
Because it’s not news. It’s nothing out of the ordinary. Railroads have cars on the ground every day.
The CSX gets more publicity perhaps because the CSX’s operating territory is more population dense, and hence media dense, than is the UP?
Put another way, if the UP derails in a forest, does anyone notice? [:I]
Depends on how many, if any, endangered species reside there!
[banghead][banghead]
It has been pointed out many times that CSX is right about in the middle of all the railroads in terms of derailments. They really don’t put them on the ground anymore than the rest of the industry, but as some other posters have pointed out, when they do it gets threads posted about it, no matter how small the derailment was. BTW CSX spends just as much, if not more on maintaince, as the NS does.
Well the fact that it is right next to the Amtrak Station is bad publicity in and of itself. Both for Amtrak and CSX
Staples Mills gets a lot of trafffic as far as passengers and freight(Acca yard?)
Out of curiosity, how do they get them back on the track? Crane? Special jack? Forklift? Neat thingamajig? Hand of God?
When derailed cars are left at the derailment site for a period of time after the track as been restored to service and brought back up to timetable authorized speeds it is normally because those cars are being scrapped in place and are waiting for the salvers to come and cut the cars up and haul them away. Most salvage operations are contracted to outside parties that have their own work schedules to mesh into the operation of the railroad, it can take an appreciable period of time to get the cars cut up and hauled away at times.
Depends on how far ‘on the ground’ they are. Where the railroads used to bring out the “big hook”, now they wait for a sidewinder from one of the salvage companies. If the situation is right, they might use a rerailing frog, but I don’t know how many of those are left, either.
I’ve seen rerail frogs and wood blocks used for small jobs. I once rerailed a locomotive using wood blocks and tie plates. I guess I should stress this is only for equipment that is still upright and not over on it’s side, for that you have to call in the big boys.