Just caught the tail end of the story. Train between Altoona and Pittsburgh rear-ended another in the Westmoreland County. Will look for more info after I get dinner cooked, as I am cooking and listening to the telly at the same time.
Sorry about the delay, but was in the process of cooking and didn’t get a chance to stop. The accident was in Indiana Co. Here’s the story.
http://www.thepittsburghchannel.com/news/14980859/detail.html
Had been monitoring the Curve on the computer and wondered why so little traffic. Guess that explains it.
Have not been able to get anything about the story anywhere after a lot of googling. Did this really happen?
I saw the video put up by the Pittsburgh TV station. As those things go, it wasn’t a very destructive wreck. For whatever reason, the following coal train could not stop short of the last car on the stack train. The engine of the coal train pushed the flat car to one side and two boxes to the other, and didn’t appear to off the rails. Given that the coal train stopped within 90 feet of the impact point, I would guess that the collision was at very low speed.
It did really happen. Westbound 11A rearended westbound 227 yesterday around 2pm. This happened around 15mph 2 miles from where the wreck at Conpit occurred just a few days earlier.
It was reported on Trainorders that train 11A (a manifest) rearended train 226 (the Intermodal at about MP296 which is in the Packsaddle arew of the West Slope. Freights were being diverted via the Conemaugh Line.
If conrail was still here this would not have happened!
Screw CSX/NS
Yea, right.[#wstupid]
You got a vote![tup]
[#wstupid]X2
Let me guess you work for NS, you poor child.
Nope. Just someone who does not live in a Conrail fantasy world.
I think Conrail fans have the upper-hand. I wonder why?[:-^]
nazi southern is screwed. csx is well… STB have conrail takeover CSX please!!!
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We have the same views about CSX & NS[{(-_-)}]
I don’t have a bad view of Conrail. I just don’t drink the fantasy Kool-Aid that some others do.
Amen to that.