Western Railroad Discussion > Another Derailment on the UP Mojave Sub

At 9:07pm tonight a train derailed between Walong and Woodford, right next to the freeway.  If you go to the Loop Cam and scroll back to 9:07 the camera is off looking for NeoWise, but you can hear the cars derail.  Then at 10:26 you can see a view of the cars.  I bet the Loop Cam will be the hot hangout tomorrow morning! 





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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cDO3PEh_Hg

Don't miss the unit tank train at 7:30pm!

Ted Curphey
Ontario, OR

5:52 PDT (7/19/20), side booms on site attempting to upright an IBT 50' Hi-cube. As viewed from the zoomed in YouTube cam courtesy TLTC (Tehachapi Live Train Cams).

6:10 - GATX 228722 is back up and rolling on the rails, being pulled uphill by a sideboom.

~ Mr. MRL



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More empty cars getting string lined?

Last 3 or 4 cars in the train, so doubt it was a stringline.

It was a MRVWC train going uphill. People think there was no DPU on the train, and the derailement was about 5 cars off the track with only two cars from the derailed cars to the last car in the train. Would like to get that confirmed somehow. So no stringline this time. There were some people looking at the south switch at Woodford early in the morning, so a wheel may have dropped off there. Looks like most of the cars derailed at a flange greaser just north of the loop.

Ted Curphey
Ontario, OR

Confirmed, the 2 boxcars are the 86th and 87th car from the head end, the last tank is the 88th car from the head end and the rear of the train.
 

So, on average who derail more trains up there, UP or BNSF?

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On the Mojave Sub seems like it's more BNSF than UP, but the BNSF runs quite a few more trains.

Derailement cleaned up, and the trains are rolling.  1 tank car MIGHT have been on the ground, put back on quickly if it was, 1 IBT boxcar will probably sucumb to the blue wrench soon.

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> So, on average who derail more trains up there, UP
> or BNSF?
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A better question would be who has a higher percentage of derailments, not actual counts.

UP is much better in terms of their dpu use, NMSF hangs 5 on front and up the hill they go.
Grainers are the one exception. 

Out 

Not gonna start a debate of who's got the better trained hogheads.

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