More on the ground in Muncie...

Trains Magazine General Discussion
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…Paper really played it up big in this morning’s paper but it looks to me to be just 4 of 8 cars…{covered hoppers}, loaded with plastic pellets. Didn’t even know an industry used such material here. Looks like they just dropped to the ground.

From the pic in the paper it looks like an industrail {NS}, spur to a business down in southern sector of Muncie where it crosses Walnut St. for anyone that is familiar. I think that might have been part of the Muncie Belt RR in the past but believe that is non existent anymore…{not sure if it was the Belt RR}.

The paper was playing it up with all kinds of comments of hazzard material spillage and whether we have personal to deal with it, etc…Don’t think anything of that nature was even involved in this event. Movement probably was of the 5 to 10 mph range…Just guessing but being where it was I imagine that’s in the range…Not cars on their sides…just dropped off the rails for some reason from what I see in the news paper photo.

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So should we call the paper and let them know the sky is not falling.[(-D]

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“The sky is falling! The sky is falling! The sky is falling!”[swg]

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Friday casual day got a little too casual?

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Quentin,

Checked it on a map, that’s pretty close to where the New castle district splits (south) away from the paralleling the CSX main, isn’t it?

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…AG:

It’s not too far from the location you mention…just a bit farther south. I’m not sure just where NS gains access to that area. Guess I should pull out a local map and take a look.

Ok…Just took a peek on my local map and it {NS}, comes off that Newcastle line just north of Crestview Golf Coarse and heads east across Walnut and some other points east here in Muncie…Have to think that was part of the Muncie Belt RR in the past.

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…It does seem we’re {the RR’s}, are getting pretty good at putting them {cars}, on the ground in our fair city of Muncie. I really consider this a bit different as it was on so called industrial type trackage as compared to the derailments we’ve had recently on a main here…{NS}.

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I wonder if heavier carloadings have anything to do with it?

Not so much a direct link where heavier cars are the ones derailed, but rather the heavier beating some of the older lines get constantly from modern loads in general, leading to an accumulative degeneration?

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…The article in the paper and a photo…showed the cars to be covered hoppers and the content was said to be plastic pellets…That doesn’t sound extraordinary heavy…but that’s just my judgement.