Western Railroad Discussion > Derailment at Florence Co this am

Hey all, Got word this morning of a derailment in Florence Colo this morning. We decided to go over and take a looksee at what happened. Here are 3 shot from what we found.  Head end of train showing the cars derailed in shot 1. 

Shot 2.  Looking west from the Colo Hwy 67 road crossing.

Shot 3. A closer shot of the 2 cars that were on the ground . Big gouge there. It also appears that the next car forward of the one on right has a wheel on the ground.

No injuries other than pride and some bent metal. No leaks from the cars either.  

Thanks for looking. Be well everyone.  Kristie

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What railroad is that?

Rock & Rail. On UP, ex Tenn Pass Line. Ben

Good pictures.  I posted one earlier this morning from a friend in the thread "Tennessee Pass line derailment".  I beat you to it!

Bryan
CO J/L
MP 89

BryanJ Wrote:
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> Good pictures.  I posted one earlier this morning
> from a friend in the thread "Tennessee Pass line
> derailment".  I beat you to it!
>
> Bryan
> CO J/L
> MP 89

So what????  

Not a competition!  Ben had better photos though.

Robert



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 11/18/20 15:50 by koloradokid.

I would  bet that he was talking in jest!

Those Canon City locals will do anything for an exciting picture!

Out 

Appears that they were shoving out when it derailed. A rail might have broke under the cars.

Ted Curphey
Ontario, OR

funnelfan Wrote:
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> Appears that they were shoving out when it
> derailed. A rail might have broke under the cars.

Pulling out. Switch is a trailing point WB. Loads in. empties out. Mag Chloride. Thought the same. Switch under one of the cars that didn't derail tho. A cut of 4 cars other than the 6 here, were pulled back into industry (Cemex and the Mag Chloride place) Cemex has a Track Mobile they use, so I am guessing that is what was used to pull cars back over to east side of crossing, tho TV station in COS states the Colo Dept Of Transp used a front end loader. Ben

koloradokid Wrote:
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> BryanJ
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> So what????  
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> Not a competition!  Ben had better photos
> though.
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> Robert

No it isn't a competition, but you would think we could just add to the same post instead of starting a new thread on the same topic on the same day. That was my point.

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