Well for one reason I don’t believe you I have e-mailed you for pictures and you never replied to any of them with not even a text reply!
CSXRailFan
By the way I said BNSF did not tell my Aunt and Uncle about it and what I meant by that is that guy lets my Uncle know all the news about trains and he knows just more than BNSF even though he only works for them.
CSXRailFan
Also buddy PM is in the evening not the morning! ( you said morning ) Thanks a lot for gettin me made like a fool because I told all my friends this happened. No way ever a wreck this large could have been cleaned up by the next day! Also we always here about derailments here in Pennsylvania even if they are all the way over in California! I want some pictures buddy!
CSXRailFan
Oh, sorry! Where did you get the idea that it took just one day to clean up? How long have you been watching trains? Even after the retired worker confirmed the derailment and every detail in the description. Admit it!
Never got any E-mail either.
Brian
did you see what the did with the locomotive carnage? Were any units cut up on site??
I DID
Sorry I owe you an apology this did happen but I did not realize this post was from last year, my uncle found it in the St. Louis news archives.
CSXRailFan
One thing, why wasn’t this news on trains.com?
Trains.com news wire — Thursday December 13, 2001
Above is the header I copied from the newswire archives. It was listed in the Newswire of Trains.com on December 13th… It was quite a wreck. I live in St. Louis and it was all over the news and in the Post Dispatch the next day.
Both mainlines are open at a limit of 40 mph. The totaled engines are located on the west end of the UP silica mine siding.
There is another one! This was on BNSF’s cuba Sub. It happened near milepost 70, or west of sullivan. 20 cars derailed out of over a hundred. The train was mixed freight, probably a Tulsa-Galesburg freight. Does anyone else have anymore information?
Yes, the scattered locomotive parts are being loaded into gondolas, and the bodies of the totaled locomotives are to be hauled away on flatcars, which are currently present at the site.
There is a lot of scrap like traction motors and metal shreads, as well as axles just lying around, probably to be put into the gondolas.
It’s o.k., I had to clear out my inbox, and I found your e mails, sorry. I did reply, I’ll try to send you some pictures, if I can get the stupid disk to work!
Ok, as I said I made a mistake which EVERYONE here has done!
Today, Monday, January 21st, the local came and picked up the gondolas full of engine shreads. The un-totaled engines had their couplers replaced and were towed away earlier, by another local. The totaled engines still remain on site, resting on the track.
So they are still only using the one main there now?
Mark
brian,
Is there a websight where I can view the photos of the Pacific wreck?
Brian
do you know the flatcar numbers? I wanted to track where they go. Any luck with the digital pictures?
Thanks
Don
I’ll try and get the flatcar numbers before they haul them off. The local moved them onto the west siding to be ready for the long run on the next local. I’ll try to get out there in time! No luck so far with the pictures though, I’ve got an idea I’m going to try that I think will work.