Imagine that!
UP derailment in Gibbon Nebraska - last week. 46 cars and one BNSF unit on it’s side. Coal across 3 sets of tracks on the mainline. (Thanx Brother Carl for details)
Who pays for repair of the coal cars? Who pays for the repair of the BNSF engine? (think Barbaro - it was on it’s side.) The cause seems to be a broken wheel on the first one of the coal cars.
Thank you.
Ms Mook
up insurance pays or will you take a challenger in trade for the bnsf engine??
stay safe
Joe
46 cars!? That might be some sort of record for a one train derailment.
Mook, did they bring in a diesel mechanic with a big gun and put the locomotive to sleep? [xx(]
Broken Wheel = Lotsa lawyers (expert at everything, proficient at none) involved.
Uncle Pete is gonna bill the car owner and then all Hades breaks loose…
No, Silly! They use a hypodermic needle and solution.
Joe - would take one Challenger even trade for cream and green! Yeah! [8D]
Driver saw the news footage and Brother Carl filled in the numbers. I guess it was a real mess! Driver said it looked like a group of matchsticks all over the ground. Bet there is still a major migraine over this one!
Got to remember, the train was probably moving at about 50 or so when it derailed. Forty-six cars might be plausible under such circumstances.
And I am thinking that the cream and green was a dpu (way at the end) and would not have cut it’s power until an air hose broke?
Does that sound correct?
I think the BNSF engine almost had to be a trailing unit, probably on the head end. BNSF and UP engines can’t DPU with each other. If it was on the rear end, it would have to have a UP engine leading the remote consist. The leader on the head end would have to have UP cab signals out of North Platte.
Jeff
Jeff - I am confused.
If it was say 2 UP units on the head and the (maybe I am not using the right terminology) the BNSF at the very end of the train where FRED normally goes - is this what won’t work? (I know I have never seen it.)
So if it was UP then BNSF both on the headend - the cream and green would have been just before the broken wheel coal car? (I really wish I had seen the news footage!)
Wow that must just twist tied the UPRR being the juncture point between the KC & transcon lines. No pix available?
I can only find a snippet in the local news - but it was117 cars - 46 derailed. Headed to Marysville KS and at Gibbon NE when it wrecked. Heard it took out 3 sets of tracks with debris.
That’s all I can find out. No pix that I can find.
[#oops]
That’s what won’t work. Currently, UP DPU equipment only responds to other UP DPU equipment.
Jeff
Any photos?
And I learned something new today! Thank you!