Freight trains collide in Pa.; no injuries reported

Trains Magazine General Discussion
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SMITHTON, Pa. (AP) — A freight train slammed into a derailed car of another train, causing a pileup of 22 rail cars Sunday in southwestern Pennsylvania. No injuries were reported.

A tanker carrying a paint additive ruptured, but crews contained it quickly, officials said.

A CSX Corp. train was heading west from New Castle to Chicago when it jumped the track around 10 a.m. in Reduction, about 25 miles southeast of Pittsburgh, said CSX spokesman Garrick Francis. About 11 cars left the tracks.

Then an eastbound CSX train crashed into at least one of the derailed cars. The impact derailed about 11 cars of the second train, which was traveling from Willard, Ohio, to Cumberland, Md., he said.

The cars contained no hazardous materials, Francis said.

“It was a general pileup,” Francis said.

Investigators are trying to determine the cause of the initial derailment.

Both trains included mixed-freight cars. The westbound train had 94 cars and the eastbound one had 69, according to Francis.

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Well I geuss that would explain why Q358 reverse back to Willard tonight after coming up from Crestline. That was about the strangest thing I have seen in a long time.

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yeah…the crestline local came out and put power on his rear end this evening before leaving for greenwhich

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I was at Greenwich lastnight and I knew there was something wrong. I was up there for 5 hours, and didn’t see anything on the New Castle Sub. and usually there is at least one sitting at Boyd waiting. Now if CSX could only firgure out how to stay on the rails, things would good.

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“It was a general pileup,” Francis said.

Now that’s a new term for a derailment.[%-)] So what’s the terms for worse ones [?]

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The train was heading west from New Castle to Chicago and derailed in Reduction SE of Pittsburgh; but New Castle is NW of Pittsburgh.

What route was this train taking to Chicago? [banghead]