Western Railroad Discussion > BNSF derailment near Ludlow, CA

Fire & Law units now on scene of a derailment near Ludlow, CA on the BNSF transcon. Reporting one train derailed, then another struck that derailed train. Small fire of RR ties noted. No injuries, no hazmat.

Wow. Bnsf is sure keeping their repair-wrecks crews busy.

That's a long haul for the fire dept. Hope all is safe.

Dave Toussaint
Riverside, CA
SoCalRailFan.com

Update: 20 cars derailed, 20 feet of RR ties on fire per the FD twitter feed.

mile post?

Poorly maintained equipment.
I hear allot of noisey bearings on passing trains.

Train derailment reported in Ludlow
October 22, 2013 4:49 PM

Shortly after 2 p.m., California Highway Patrol received a call from a reporting party traveling along side Interstate 40, CHP spokesman Don Spiker said.

http://www.desertdispatch.com/articles/ludlow-15256-train-derailment.html

Ludlow >> Two freight trains collided Tuesday afternoon, east of Ludlow, leaving 20 cars derailed and rail ties burned as result.

At 3 p.m. on Tuesday, the San Bernardino County Fire Department got a call that two freight trains collided about 5 miles east of Crucero Road near the Mojave Desert town of Ludlow, located near Interstate 40.

As of Tuesday afternoon, no injuries had been reported.

http://www.sbsun.com/general-news/20131022/train-derails-near-ludlow

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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/22/13 18:40 by highgreengraphics.

Bus connections for Amtrak 3 & 4.

90mac Wrote:
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> Poorly maintained equipment.
> I hear allot of noisey bearings on passing trains.

You should notify the NTSB immediately. They'd appreciate all the help they can get.

http://www.ntsb.gov/about/contact.html

BabyHuey2926 Wrote:
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> mile post?

688



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/22/13 18:34 by KA7008.

Yep it is a long way for a fire department. Years ago near 1980, a train with drunk engineer ran into the back of another train and killed 2 or 3. Fire departments came from Barstow, Apple Valley, and other places. We were there for 36 hrs. The only food was a sorry Roach Coach, sent out by Santa Fe. It was interesting watching the work crew pull away the wrecked cars, then build a Shoe Fly, then watch trains travel at about one mile per hour. This might shut things down for a while. We had fire, has-mat, death, and hard work. They buried most of the cars, salvaged the engines and shipped them back to Barstow, etc. Pretty interesting watching and pretty dangerous fighting that fire. They shipped 3-4 10,000 gal tank cars from Barstow with water and the same from Ludlow. We used most of it I think. I have forgotten lots from then, but it was a tiring time.

That's a long 36 hours though!

Haha, didn't take long for the FIS (Foamer Investigative Service) to issue their findings!

Not THAT train, they would only be interested in the 2 trains involved.

KA7008 Wrote:
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> 90mac Wrote:
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> > Poorly maintained equipment.
> > I hear allot of noisey bearings on passing
> trains.
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> You should notify the NTSB immediately. They'd
> appreciate all the help they can get.
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> http://www.ntsb.gov/about/contact.html

KA7008 Wrote:
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> Bus connections for Amtrak 3 & 4.

Tonight's 4(22): Buses to Needles, CA to connect with 3(21) equipment which turns to represent 4(22).
Train 3(21): terminates at Needles, CA with passengers bused to destinations.

Buses at Los Angeles, CA between 730pm and 800pm representing train 4(22). Early estimate is train 4(22) to depart Needles, CA three hours late.

Ludlow has the wiggle detectors too. Probably caught the bad bearing right before it took a dump.

Woke up around 2100 tonight and logged in to see who was my new helper and seen the message. Then I told myself I'd hit up Trainorders for an in-depth look when I got to work. Thumbs up.

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90mac Wrote:
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> Poorly maintained equipment.
> I hear allot of noisey bearings on passing trains.


Are you sure it's not stuck breaks?