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Trains News Wire FLASH: Canadian National ore train derails in Minnesota
One heck of a pile up
There are managements that respect mountain gradients and some that think operating equipment, practices and rules that adequately serve operations on the flatter parts of the RR are OK in the mountain territories.
After CN got the BCR., an engine w/o DB and a couple of loads ran-away near Lillooette.
CN gets the 4 mile 3% grade piece of the DM&I and one (of us) asks "…accidents…more frequently…since…took over?’
Oooops!
Is it just me, or are accidents on the former DM&IR happening more frequently since CN took over?
Long live the DM&IR.
For the cars to pile up like that, I suspect the crew had a helluva ride down the grade.
I think Francis got it on the nose. When is the last time you’ve heard of a Canadian Pacific train running away in the steep Kicking Horse Pass? Or a Union Pacific train running away in Donner Pass? As for BC Rail, I think that line would’ve been far better off in the hands of CP. And the DM&IR should’ve gone to pretty much anybody except CN.
TNX, Cam Lochli; I’d like to think that I’m on the way to exonerate Spuyten Duyvil’s W. Rockefeller by suggesting a mini-stroke caused his “in a daze” catastrophe.
The CN Duluth event…4 miles at 40 mph in emergency… a yard relief crew recouples a train that has cut a (highway) crossing and within 50 minutes descends a 2.9% descending grade.
Preposterous.
This uninvestigated phenomena, four miles at forty mph in emergency, says that there is a community of…in CN management, a dominant group that pushes practices that work on the 1% grades to apply them on more severe grades…pity…shameful.
TNX, Cam Lochli; I’d like to think that I’m on the way to exonerate Spuyten Duyvil’s W. Rockefeller by suggesting a mini-stroke caused his “in a daze” catastrophe.
The CN Duluth event…4 miles at 40 mph in emergency… a yard relief crew recouples a train that has cut a (highway) crossing and within 50 minutes descends a 2.9% descending grade.
Preposterous.
This uninvestigated phenomena, four miles at forty mph in emergency, says that there is a community of…in CN management, a dominant group that pushes practices that work on the 1% grades to apply them on more severe grades…pity…shameful.
TNX, Cam Lochli; I’d like to think that I’m on the way to exonerate Spuyten Duyvil’s W. Rockefeller by suggesting a mini-stroke caused his “in a daze” catastrophe.
The CN Duluth event…4 miles at 40 mph in emergency… a yard relief crew recouples a train that has cut a (highway) crossing and within 50 minutes descends a 2.9% descending grade.
Preposterous.
This uninvestigated phenomena, four miles at forty mph in emergency, says that there is a community of…in CN management, a dominant group that pushes practices that work on the 1% grades to apply them on more severe grades…pity…shameful.
That is a spectacular wreck. Can’t blame Harrison, just the Montrealers. Stupidity is involved, big time, methinks,