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BNSF derailment at Pampa, TX short time ago, both mains blocked, no other details.  Anybody else heard anything?



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/28/24 16:38 by Chico56.

The S-MEMLBT1-26. CP 4940, which is between Pampa and Hoover.

2 cars off rail and upright leaning fouling M2.

Ted Ferkenhoff
Flagstaff, AZ



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/28/24 18:26 by tferk.

Thanks for the update Ted!

Better get it cleared!  There were 140 trains through Fort Madison on Thursday, a lot of them westbound.  Maybe some were reroutes due to the Baltimore bridge collapse.  A large percentage were double stackers soem with TOFC mixed in.  Poor Amtrak 4,l was six and a half hours late, so late they met nubmer 3 just east of the bridge over teh Mississippi River.

Can someone explain to me the UP powered double stacker that goes west mid afternoonish, and has an opposing move too??

RR

UP has trackage rights , from SP as  a result of the BNSF merger, exxpensive i believe

and we may see some more UP trains on this segment with UPS traffic perhaps

dan Wrote:
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> UP has trackage rights , from SP as  a result of
> the BNSF merger, exxpensive i believe
>
> and we may see some more UP trains on this segment
> with UPS traffic perhaps

BNSF trackage rights agreement with UP allow one train per day each direction. That's why they keep getting longer. The tail ends of the westbounds usually are stopped near the VRF Ft. Madison cam while the crew changes at Shopton.

PCBill

bmarti7 Wrote:
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> BNSF trackage rights agreement with UP allow one
> train per day each direction. That's why they keep
> getting longer.
>
> PCBill

Not really. The trackage rights agreement allows for more than two trains as no idea where people got that theory since even 5-10 years ago UP was running nearly SIX trains per day on the ex-ATSF. HOWEVER, the real reason UP reduced it down to a single pair is that the trackage right fees the ex-SP agreed to are EXTREMELY EXPENSIVE and UP pulled all but the lone Z-train pair between Chicago (headed to/from Global IV) and Southern CA.

They keep getting longer because like every other class 1 obsessed with PSR, longer trains = less crews = lower operating ratio. Not saying I agree with that operating mode but that's the real reason the trains are 10-15 kft monsters.

There "might" be another Z train pair added in the next week given UPs announcement of adding another premium intermodal between Global II and the Inland Empire of Southern CA.

https://www.trains.com/trn/news-reviews/news-wire/union-pacific-to-launch-new-domestic-intermodal-service-between-southern-california-and-chicago/



Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 03/29/24 06:30 by AaronJ.

Interesting, thought BNSF would not mind the wheelbarrow full of money a few times a day.

Guess they use bnsf crews?

Wow, BNSF had a derailment today and yesterday?

But yesterday, today was tomorrow, and tomorrow, today will be yesterday.

So which today was the derailment? 

Oh wait, I get it, you are saying that every day there is a derailment. Got it. So no matter what day today is, there is a derailment on BNSF.

I am confident a derailment occurs at least once a day, every day on all the class I railroads.

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I am confident a derailment occurs at least once a day, every day on all the class I railroads.

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koloradokid Wrote:
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> Better get it cleared!  There were 140 trains
> through Fort Madison on Thursday, a lot of them
> westbound.  

Exaggerate much? The actual number was closer to 60

dan Wrote:
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> Guess they use bnsf crews?

UP crews between KC and Chicago, crew change at Ft. Madison

bmarti7 Wrote:
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> dan Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > UP has trackage rights , from SP as  a result
> of
> > the BNSF merger, exxpensive i believe
> >
> > and we may see some more UP trains on this
> segment
> > with UPS traffic perhaps
>
> BNSF trackage rights agreement with UP allow one
> train per day each direction. That's why they keep
> getting longer. The tail ends of the westbounds
> usually are stopped near the VRF Ft. Madison cam
> while the crew changes at Shopton.
>
> PCBill

Train have been big, with yesterdays at 190 platforms with 4 by 2 by 0 power, 6 units.  Rear of train was sdtopped at the other end of the bridge.  Mid-train DP was not even to the camera location.

RR

bmarti7 Wrote:
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> dan Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > UP has trackage rights , from SP as  a result
> of
> > the BNSF merger, exxpensive i believe
> >
> > and we may see some more UP trains on this
> segment
> > with UPS traffic perhaps
>
> BNSF trackage rights agreement with UP allow one
> train per day each direction. That's why they keep
> getting longer. The tail ends of the westbounds
> usually are stopped near the VRF Ft. Madison cam
> while the crew changes at Shopton.
>
> PCBill

Train have been big, with yesterdays at 190 platforms with 4 by 2 by 0 power, 6 units.  Rear of train was sdtopped at the other end of the bridge.  Mid-train DP was not even to the camera location.  Thanks all for the information.  Watcing trains on my TV has been a nice releif when the weather here in NW Oregon is, well, nasty.

RR