With todays derailment near ROSWELL, NM .I was wondering if anyone heard what happen in the derailment near Silver City NM in 2013 ?
Hi, Tim!
Your inquiry is a little strange, as those two cities are somewhere around 300 miles apart, and in wide open New Mexico. Are there any railfans in New Mexico? Let’s see … Roswell, NM. Hmmm. An incident happened there today? Flying saucers and little alien creatures weren’t involved, were they? I just had to throw that in …
Isn’t Southwestern Railroad an ex-Santa Fe track outfit?
Take care,
K.P.
K.P.
I know my inquiry is a little strange , But since it was sme company inovled I thoughht it might jog someones member of Silver City wreck that is on the other side of the state . Southwestern Railroad what I’m know just has Trackage rights off of BNSF .
Hi, again, Tim!
OK, got the picture …
Since you linked some of your flickr.com photos, I perused a page or two. Heavy on model and real cop cars! Are you a sheriff? The Mrs. acts dragon-like once and a while, and goes to sites with a police escort, and what she says everybody knows she means business! And, then she comes home and is sweet … usually …
About the BNSF arrangement … Didn’t BNSF contract with Southwestern Railroad (or whoever) to operate the branch from Roswell to Silver City and NOT a trackage rights arrangement?
Here in Southern California BNSF crews run the locals, but yet some locals are contracted out to small outfits. Quite a change from yest
K.P.
Here is article about Roswell wreck .http://trn.trains.com/…/ntsb-finds-open-switch-at-site-of-f…
I did not relize my Flickr page was linked to this forum . But I guess it would since it is same company that also has Model Railroader . I don’t use much of fourms of Kalmbach Publishing Co.
Anyways I’m not in Law enforcement ,but do have friends that are or retired from . Anyways I do lot of modeling and I also take photos of other things in area I live in .
Tim:
I am not a TRAINS Magazine subscriber currently, so your link didn’t work for me. However, with the info you provided, I was able to find an article, linked below. Just scroll down in the link.
http://newsok.com/ntsb-train-worker-likely-to-survive-if-he-hadnt-jumped/article/feed/833050
One outfit had a photo showing the train had BNSF and Mexican safety cabbed power. The worker killed was undoubtedly NOT a railfan, hence, probably didn’t know his chances were better staying in the cab instead of jumping.
Thanks for the info and effort,
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Tim:
I am not a TRAINS Magazine subscriber currently, so your link didn’t work for me. However, with the info you provided, I was able to find an article, linked below. Just scroll down in the link.
http://newsok.com/ntsb-train-worker-likely-to-survive-if-he-hadnt-jumped/article/feed/833050
One outfit had a photo showing the train had BNSF and Mexican safety cabbed power. The worker killed was undoubtedly NOT a railfan, hence, probably didn’t know his chances were better staying in the cab instead of jumping.
BaltACD (5-3):
You made a good assessment of the situation.
The below link may (“may”) be the location, as it is about the said distance southeast from Roswell.
https://www.google.com/maps/@33.2785774,-104.4313388,401m/data=!3m1!1e3
I personally have a hard time believing an on duty trainman left the switch open, as that wouldn’t jive with the rhythm of switching operations. A disgruntled ex-railroader sounds plausible. Or, a trainman locked the switch in normal position, but because of mechanical issues, the lock didn’t really lock. A kid might have walked by, from the scattered residential houses in the area, saw the lock sort of unlocked, and threw the switch and force-locked it with some trouble, not realizing the gravity of his actions, but probably he will never confess his actions that only he knows about. The NTSF may never solve the case, and it will go down as a mysterious “probable cause” situation.
Sad, but I think that is what will happen.
Take care,
K.P.
[quote user=“K. P. Harrier”]
BaltACD (5-3):
You made a good assessment of the situation.
The below link may (“may”) be the location, as it is about the said distance southeast from Roswell.
https://www.google.com/maps/@33.2785774,-104.4313388,401m/data=!3m1!1e3
I personally have a hard time believing an on duty trainman left the switch open, as that wouldn’t jive with the rhythm of switching operations. A disgruntled ex-railroader sounds plausible. Or, a trainman locked the switch in normal position, but because of mechanical issues, the lock didn’t really lock. A kid might have walked by, from the scattered residential houses in the area, saw the lock sort of unlocked, and threw the switch and force-locked it with some trouble, not realizing the gravity of his actions, but probably he will never confess his actions that only he knows about. The NTSF may never solve the case, and it will go down as a mysterious “probable cause” situation.
Sad, but I think that is what will happen.
Take care,
K.P.