derailments in ur town?

[texasmade]

i was just wondering if theres been any real bad derailments in ur part of town? In my town this past year we had 6 derailments 2 of them
had casualties due to the acid. that shit kinda scares me cuz i work
behind a line and live near a major yard.i was just curious if this kinda stuff happens alot in other towns cuz comn 6 in one year.
UNION PACIFIC says there doing there best to keep these things from happening ..................holla!!!!!

[vptonbing]

only one this year, and it was 20 miles away

[ghostvandal]

we had 2 the same day.. a month ago

[ASER1NE]

ive seen 2 in the last 5 years in an around my city. Both were skeleton cars that werent equally loaded and tipped over going around a curve . nothin serious

[kingofshame]

nothing as serious as crashin' cars flames and death...but for years before ns fixed the spur....right beside where i work cars would jump off the track...i've seen em come off while there bookin 45 mph...couplers come undone from the jolt of the spur ghost cars rollin by ya with no engine is some funny but scary ass shit.....i've also taken advantage of those situations....streakin and such....i'm waitin 4 it to happen while i'm workin so i can break out the air sprayer and bust some ragged end to ends seconds flat.

[useurname]

One happened right by my house a few months ago. It wasn't horrible but it was weird because almost exactly a year(give or take a few days) before that, in the exact same spot where most of the train flipped over, someone killed themself probably a coincidence.....

[iloveyoursister]

There was a line of coalcars that came off the line not too far away from here, Nobody got hurt though.

And a few years ago now a passengertrain came off the line, again nobody died but some got injured quite bad.

[ghostvandal]

a derailment on the qgry line apparently happened today..but i kinda missed it the news..fuck

[B.anthracis]

Saw one yesterday, I dunno if anyone was hurt.
It was just a few hoppers on their side
with 20 werkers do sumthing to the trax.
I got a few pix too.

[ArtistikFunk]

there was just a collision with a Rail Grinder & A BNSF stack train,
caught on the TRAINS WEB CAM.

there was nike shoes & team gear Everywhere!!



Collision ties up UP-BNSF diamonds at Rochelle, Ill.

ROCHELLE, Ill. - A Union Pacific rail-grinding machine working west through town on the north mainline track struck an eastbound BNSF intermodal train at the busy diamond crossing about 7:45 p.m. Friday. The collision tied up both UP’s Geneva Subdivision, its main line linking Chicago to Omaha and points west, and BNSF’s Aurora Subdivision, a.k.a. “the C&I,” its main line linking Chicago and Minneapolis-St. Paul and points west.

No rolling stock derailed, although some containers on the BNSF train — symboled Z-SSECH-8-09 and bound from South Seattle, Wash., to Chicago — were ripped open, their contents spilling out along the right-of-way. There were no reported injuries or hazmat concerns.

Both railroads were reopened early Saturday morning, but the Rochelle Railroad Park, a city-owned public viewing area east of the diamonds that is normally open 24/7, was closed during the day to allow clean-up activities to be finished. The views below of the incident are from the TrainsMag.com Web Cam, which is mounted on the roof of the pavilion in the city park; the illumination is from lights on the rail-grinding machine.

The incident is under investigation by both railroads. Rochelle is 75 miles west of downtown Chicago via the UP and 83 miles via the BNSF.




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[Locofanclub]

Anyone got any yard derailed shots? Nasty mangled wheel-less freights or commuters.

[Mr. Tilford]

Every once in a while derailments occur here, I've seen a grainer on its side ride off a poorly maintained shortline track near my old house, I've got flix of a Golden West and UP box derailed and drilled into the ground near one of the yards in Atlanta...I've also seen RJ Corman's rerail crew working on getting some cars straightened out as well.

[Father Guido Sarducci]

We had a good one a few months ago. BNSF lost control of 30+ cars and combined asphalt and concentrated Coors beer (which smells like shit, fwiw) at high velocity.

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Something interesting I learned because of this accident. If you want real "Rocky Mountain Spring Water" Coors beer, you have to buy it in Colorado. If you're drinking it out east, you're getting pure Virginia well water. Mmmmm.


Now the engine is just sitting there, mangled under a bridge.

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[Father Guido Sarducci]

^^^^ That happened in Denver, by the way.

[*ceas]

down by the anacostia river bridge in dc.

bridge was under maintenance or something and was closed. the train rolled out of the yard because the driver forgot to put the breaks on or something and 2 or 3 cars fell in the river. i think they said 2 tons of coal fell in the river.

this wasn't too long ago either.

[mightymim]

http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g56/mightymim1/PIC00119.jpg
this derailment was the cause of me losing a spot

[fech]

this happened near me a few months back. it filled up every small layup around me so good with rare stuff i never normally get.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpmMry4y-w0

[raboonia73]

2 derailments...
BN had about 20 something cars at CP Highgrove dont know the cause.....

UP had a Power move derail at CP Ordway...in the city of Redlands....

if any one has pictures of the BN derailment please post.

BOTH ON THE SAME DAY.

[yonis]

there was a derailment of the engine trainn last year it was nothing serious though. it was jsut sitting there for a few days

[InfraRed]

About a month and a half ago a couple of engines derailed due to erosion under the tracks in my area.

[frank grimes jr.]

cp derail in june..
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[yonis]

i want one of those cars to go on the tracks lol

[Pet]

i want one of those cars to go on the tracks lol

My goodness, this must be the #1 post of 2009

[Ski Mask]

spotted a little fender bender at the CP yard today

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[rolling nowhere]

This shit freaks me out. Its impossible for thoughts of derailing to not pass through my mind occasionally while I'm riding a train especially when I haven't been on one for awhile

[rolling nowhere]

This shit freaks me out. Its impossible for thoughts of derailing to not pass through my mind occasionally while I'm riding a train especially when I haven't been on one for awhile

[.hopeless.]

the last one we had here was like 6 months ago...nothing to big i think like 8 cars went off the track no one got hurt but the cars were thrashed.got to see them at my grandfathers shop.dope stuff i wish i got the pictures.id hate to be next to that shit when it took off.fuck.

[Ski Mask]

if its any reassurance, it happens very rarely with passenger trains. switching is when most derailments occur, as you can see in this thread. The rare time a passenger train derails its usually the result of a collision, or some sort of maintenance related mishap.

[Sleazeside Heights]

We had a good one a few months ago. BNSF lost control of 30+ cars and combined asphalt and concentrated Coors beer (which smells like shit, fwiw) at high velocity.
dge.


it smells like shit, and tastes like piss!

[rolling nowhere]

I've never been on a passenger train... I hop freights. Freight trains derail pretty often. Its not always a fuckin catastrophe but still..its not something I like to think about. I've been on 2 trains I really thought were going to derail because they were shaking so bad. Its intense. Ha.

if its any reassurance, it happens very rarely with passenger trains. switching is when most derailments occur, as you can see in this thread. The rare time a passenger train derails its usually the result of a collision, or some sort of maintenance related mishap.

[Freshysnapper]

A few years back a CP train derailed in my town. It was in the middle of the night and it was a bunch of anhydrous ammonia tankers that ended up blowing up and filling the entire valley with gas. I remember waking up not being able to breath. I had to run outside and get in the car with my family, I could taste that shit in the air, dries your mouth out real quick. We hit the road and left town, ended up sleeping in the car in a field in the middle of nowhere.


The cause,
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[rolling nowhere]

dang.
lucky to still be breathing.

[Freshysnapper]

Yeah we got lucky because my dad gets up at 3am to go to work and knew about it right away. My friend was at home the whole time. He ended up getting sick from it and still has breathing problems. Everyone in his family got a check for almost 100k$ from cp though

[Lewis and Clark]

thats some shit freshsnap. sketchy shit too!.
so i searched and couldnt find this video on here and i know theres a video thread in Chan zero but it was filled with gay youtube shit.

Train Vs Tornado.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azV5bC2br-Q&feature=player_embedded

derails while driving through a tornado, pretty crazy video

[Ski Mask]

fuck, thats wild. nothing you want to see less than a tanker bearing down on you.

[Lewis and Clark]

fuck, thats wild. nothing you want to see less than a tanker bearing down on you.

yeah no joke man, first time i saw that video i was like wtf... i knew it was still coming down the tracks but it took it a minute.

also, does it stop on a bridge or something? i see all those ties when it starts slowing down.
*and this was not in my town lol