Western Railroad Discussion > Tehachapi Derailment

A major derailment happened early this morning just south of tunnel 10 near the Tehachapi Loop. It's apparent cause was a BNSF autoveyor train into the rear of a UP manifest train. At least a dozen cars on the ground in various degrees of damage. Fortunately there were no injuries.

The local ABC News in Bakersfield reported that the UP rear ended a BNSF enroute to Richmond, and reported 3 locomotives and 11 cars on the ground. News photos show mostly autoracks involved. What does this one make? 5 accidents in a month on this stretch of track?

Link.....please ?

I checked the local TV stations links, and there's no mention of the derailment yet. The story was on their broadcast version, so I expect it will be on their websites sometime today. However, by the same token, there were no injuries or hazmat involved, so the story does not have priority. The stations here are: KBAK, KERO, and KGET. Using those call letters and a ".com" should connect you with their websites. KBAK's site is BakersfieldNow.com, if that helps.

Thank you,did not think you saw it on live feed........Grin !


Dave

Link to 2 photos, from KERO Channel 23 (ABC):

http://www.turnto23.com/news/local-news/train-derailment-in-tehachapi



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Someone is not going to have a job soon

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Rusty.....?

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You beat me to it!

What does he have to do with a rear ender? Sounds like a crew malfunction? but COULD be equipment malfunction.
JB

I have to wonder if the fact that they've been re-doing all of the signals has anything to do with this.

Tehachap

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Unless he was running the train, can't blame him this time

BNSF rear ended the UP train!

Apparently it happened just south of Broome Road.

What has been the progress on the connecting of the Walong (M.P. 352.07) and Marcel (353.08) sidings? The short 4,800 foot Walong siding is out of step with today's rail traffic. The Walong-Marcel double tracking will make things a whole lot better, but with this double tracking the north end and south end will both have non-traditional right handed switches, which could be problematic.

Fred Harrison
Central Point, OR
CORPpower/JSS/EORS



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3rdswitch Wrote:
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> What does he have to do with a rear ender? Sounds
> like a crew malfunction? but COULD be equipment
> malfunction.
> JB

It's called "tongue in cheek".

Can't wait to see the footage from the cab.

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One a week, sweet!

Dave Toussaint
Riverside, CA
SoCalRailFan.com

fredkharrison Wrote:
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> Apparently it happened just south of Broome Road.
>
> What has been the progress on the connecting of
> the Walong (M.P. 352.07) and Marcel (353.08)
> sidings? The short 4,800 foot Walong siding is
> out of step with today's rail traffic. The
> Walong-Marcel double tracking will make things a
> whole lot better, but with this double tracking
> the north end and south end will both have
> non-traditional right handed switches, which could
> be problematic.

what do you mean by "non-traditional right hand switches"? I don't recall hearing that term.

Cliff

Cliff wrote: What do you mean by "non-traditional right hand
switches"? I don't recall hearing that term.

Reply: This was discussed on the Trains Mobile Community forum last December, in a blurb about the double tracking of the Tehachapi.

Concerning the matter of a righthand switch at both ends of the double track, identifying which track is the main and which is the siding could be confusing.

Posted from Android

Fred Harrison
Central Point, OR
CORPpower/JSS/EORS



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