Derailment at Milan, TX,

Trains Magazine General Discussion
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There is a news item about a grade crossing crossing and derailment at Milan, TX. That shows on the MP and Gulf Coast and Sante Fe. Was this UP or BNSF?

The author must have been British as it involved at goods train and lorry. The train hit a flat bed on a crossing. I saw pictures and it was a messy fire. It did not state if the train derailed.

Ed Burns

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BNSF.

This report says the 18 wheeler ran into the side of the train:

https://theeagle.com/news/18-wheeler-derails-13-train-cars-starts-large-fire-in-crash-near-cameron/article_bfdbde0c-75fd-11eb-b4cb-ef7920b12ac1.html

This looks to be the crossing: N 30 49’ 49" W 96 55’ 49"

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It was between Cameron and Hoyte on the Galveston Sub…

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Now BNSF, formerly Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe and then Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe.

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Trucker is gonna get a whopper of a bill from BNSF.

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Even bigger than his next hydro electricity bill?

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The BNSF can send a bill for damages. Collecting the money will be the problem. Been there, done that, don’t want to do it again.

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and then come the legal bills…

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The fun bill will be from responders and government. Who pays when the driver and whoever owns the truck conveniently file for bankruptcy?