Eastern Railroad Discussion > Rj Corman West Ohio derailment

Last Friday the big wind storm blew over some stored coal hoppers west of Coldwater, Ohio. This is ex NKP line Between Lima and Munice, IN. All hoppers in storage are WEPX which happen to be the same owner of the train that derailed in Chicago and took out a bridge this past week. Eight Cars derailed with little to no damage to track or the cars.
Derek



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/09/12 12:35 by howeld.

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Couple more of the cars and my partner in crime.

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Last one. As it has been a week and these are storage cars I wonder how long it will be before Rj Corman comes up to rerail these or if they will just be written off and scrapped on site?

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Because these are storage cars, and they appear to be out in the middle of nowhere, I wonder if they are aware that they are derailed yet of if some unsuspecting conductor will find out when he does his air test. it doesn't look too bad it just looks like someone overloaded a few of them with too much sailboat fuel.



You are always going track speed with RF NOCOM !

Who do you think they will call to rerail these?
Gonut

Gonut1 Wrote:
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> Who do you think they will call to rerail these?
> Gonut


RJ Corman

Well, if you wanted an up-close case study on how rotary couplers work...

-Eric

Hulcher cause csx has rj tapped out!! Sorry

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Any shots of those signals? They look kind of funky

TipsyMcStagger Wrote:
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> Any shots of those signals? They look kind of
> funky

I have some photos of several sets somewhere but didn't take any this time. They are NKP signals in various states of disrepair. Most of the NKP signals still stand between Lima and IN state line. Some are in good shape and some are really just masts. I don't remember when the signal system was turned off but its has to be nearly 20 years now.

RF-NOCOM Wrote:
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"... someone overloaded a few of them with
> too much sailboat fuel."
>
Clever phrase.

So am I drawing the correct, obvious conclusion; these cars are stored on a former main line and derailed because of the severe storms recently?

Here in L.A. years ago, we had a knucklehead U.P. Assistant Superintendent by the name of Ingram...His philosophy was that he looked at EVERY incident (derailment) like an onion...He would keep peeling back the layers until he found a "human failure factor" for the cause. I'm sure even this one would be a challenge for him...LOL!

That is amazing. When Ohio is like the great plains...

O_S_Jenks Wrote:
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> RF-NOCOM Wrote:
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> "... someone overloaded a few of them with
> > too much sailboat fuel."
> >
> Clever phrase.
>
> So am I drawing the correct, obvious conclusion;
> these cars are stored on a former main line and
> derailed because of the severe storms recently?

Yep they blew over on Friday June 29th.

spengr80 Wrote:
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> Here in L.A. years ago, we had a knucklehead U.P.
> Assistant Superintendent by the name of
> Ingram...His philosophy was that he looked at
> EVERY incident (derailment) like an onion...He
> would keep peeling back the layers until he found
> a "human failure factor" for the cause. I'm sure
> even this one would be a challenge for him...LOL!


Not at all ... some employee deliberately left these cars in the path of a heavy storm!

:)

What caught my attention was to see rusty wheel treads on derailed cars.
Of course as soon as the captions explained the cars were stored the mystery was solved.

Did these derail in the Derecho wind storm on Friday June 29th. That storm started west of Chicago about 11:00 a.m. with 60-800 mph horizontal winds. It marched east across the country and exited into the Atlantic of Maryland and Delaware about 12 hours later. So many trees and power poles were down in the DC area that some folks did not get their power back for 8 days. So I'm not surprised that it would blow these empty cars over.

spengr80 Wrote:
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> Here in L.A. years ago, we had a knucklehead U.P.
> Assistant Superintendent by the name of
> Ingram...His philosophy was that he looked at
> EVERY incident (derailment) like an onion...He
> would keep peeling back the layers until he found
> a "human failure factor" for the cause. I'm sure
> even this one would be a challenge for him...LOL!

That wouldn't be Tony Ingram would it? It sounds like a management practice of his. IF it was it still would "peel down" to a human factor because a crew obviously parked the cars in a wind prone area, lol.


You are always going track speed with RF NOCOM !

NYC6001 Wrote:
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> That is amazing. When Ohio is like the great
> plains...

No, Western Ohio is even flatter and with fewer trees.

At Fort Wayne we didn't have any 800 mph winds but had some recorded at 91 mph...


Christo Wrote:
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> Did these derail in the Derecho wind storm on
> Friday June 29th. That storm started west of
> Chicago about 11:00 a.m. with 60-800 mph
> horizontal winds. It marched east across the
> country and exited into the Atlantic of Maryland
> and Delaware about 12 hours later. So many trees
> and power poles were down in the DC area that some
> folks did not get their power back for 8 days. So
> I'm not surprised that it would blow these empty
> cars over.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/11/12 20:48 by wabash2800.