CSX wreck at Fonda NY on old NYC mainline perhaps its time for STB reveiw of CSX Conrail aquisition.
Umm… there’s lots of photos of that wreck out there.
Don’t know what any of that has to do with conrail, but I’m sure you can make something up. Make sure it has robots.
Human looking robots…and Will Smith in there also……
C3PO?
I believe that picture was printed in local newspapers.
Stuff happens.
Given the flooding problems experienced in the Mohawk valley in that time frame, I’m not sure how CSX acquiring part of Conrail has anything to do with the incident.
Am I the only one who’s seeing shackles in the photo?
From the linked article:
“Montgomery County Sheriff Michael Amato tells media outlets two trains going in opposite directions on parallel tracks apparently side-swiped each other.”
Read more: http://www.uticaod.com/news/x853677573/Train-derailment-reported-in-Montgomery-County#ixzz2Z0jSIVJn
The “side-swipe” aspect - if correct - is unusual. Presuming that this didn’t happen at an interlocking (where a side-swipe would be akin to a partial collision, where one train went beyond its authority to operate, etc.), Such a side-swipe usually occurs where the roadbed has settled or subsided so much that the trains lean into each other. Also unusual is that occurs only when the middle part of the roadbed has settled more than the outer parts. More common is when the outer edge of the embankment slumps, and that would cause the trains to lean away from each other.
- Paul North.
Crew failure! Nothing more and nothing less.
The kind of crew failure that could cost senior Division Management their jobs.
According to what I can find the incident occured here: N 42.94245 W 74.40751
No cover up here…what happened has been reported openly and quite fairly, too. A washout caused a train to derail in the face of another train so there was first a derailment and then a collision. Nothing suspicious or untoward on CSX’s part…no need for accusations nor alarm.
Ed and Jim we have to modernize this a bit. C3P-ECO?
Certainly appears to be the case. But no one is saying: a. wait until the STB investigation is complete nor b. no one (except the OP, maybe. hard to tell what he is saying) is speculating about sabotage or terrorism. But the horrible accident a week ago has produced: c. all of the above…
Maybe because everyone and their half-brother hasn’t been throwing out wild accusations about the Mohawk wreck? Or trying to reinvent the wheel because of it? And tons of civilians weren’t killed in the NY wreck, either. But yeah, I’d like to see the investigation results. I always do.
I would suggest the difference is that some folks have another agenda in mind.
Yes, yes, that’s it exactly!
Everyone has an agenda.
Yep, Conrail crews never, ever ran a red board. Oh wait…