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Eastern Railroad Discussion > Reading and Northen derailment??Date: 02/09/20 13:41 Reading and Northen derailment?? Author: dschlegel I just saw an article on WFMZ.com stating that there is a derailment in Nesquehoning, PA involving 4 rail cars. I assume this would be a Reading and Northern train, but there’s very little detail in the article.
Does anyone have more information? Thanks, Dan Posted from iPhone Date: 02/09/20 14:32 Re: Reading and Northen derailment?? Author: pal77 Isn’t that where the new bridge is?
Posted from iPhone Date: 02/09/20 14:38 Re: Reading and Northen derailment?? Author: RDG5308 The bridge is a couple of miles or so east of the derailment.
Date: 02/09/20 15:18 Re: Reading and Northen derailment?? Author: bigsavage As usual best info is from local emergency responders, in this case 12 County fire wire/news page. (photos from FB page)
Rear end of NRFF, 6 cars involved, 2 boxes, several covered hoppers. Happened at N. Mermon Ave. grade crossing. No haz-mat, clean up in progress No BFD, really.    Date: 02/09/20 15:28 Re: Reading and Northen derailment?? Author: dschlegel bigsavage Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > As usual best info is from local emergency > responders, in this case 12 County fire wire/news > page. (photos from FB page) > Rear end of NRFF, 6 cars involved, 2 boxes, > several covered hoppers. > Happened at N. Mermon Ave. grade crossing. > No haz-mat, clean up in progress > No BFD, really. Thanks for the photos and information! Dan Posted from iPhone Date: 02/09/20 17:31 Re: Reading and Northen derailment?? Author: 1019X And that boys and girls is why you don't pull up close to the track at a crossing!
Date: 02/09/20 18:33 Re: Reading and Northen derailment?? Author: pdt No BFD compared to what it could have been...but still an expensive, time consuming distraction...
Date: 02/09/20 19:16 Re: Reading and Northen derailment?? Author: 2839Canadian And photographers do NOT take your photos within 50 feet of the tracks
Date: 02/09/20 19:32 Re: Reading and Northen derailment?? Author: BMH Caught on camera
https://youtu.be/ioMcqBIDnao BMH Date: 02/10/20 03:03 Re: Reading and Northen derailment?? Author: JPB BMH Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > Caught on camera > https://youtu.be/ioMcqBIDnao > > BMH Wow - pretty amazing footage! Looks like videographer was fortunately zooming in as opposed to standing right next to the tracks. Was it the 1st covered hopper of the last batch of covered hoppers went off the rails first? Date: 02/10/20 04:52 Re: Reading and Northern derailment?? Author: PlyWoody And never get near a bent rail that can spring free and kill you, just like in this photo. Stay clear as there are many hazards you do not know and can kill you. Dozer operators have a cage on their machine to help protect them but a bent rail can spring loose at any time, even when being cut with a torch to prevent the hazard. Sometime a door can fall off a derailed car account a shifted load and the door has crushed many men. Study the rail head way prior to the point of derailment for clues of dragging equipment to discover the cause but stay clear of the wreck.
Date: 02/10/20 05:59 Re: Reading and Northern derailment?? Author: ALCO630 Between WFMZ, Facebook and all of the preaching here, you would think this was a catastrophe of biblical proportions.
Posted from iPhone Doug Wetherhold Macungie, PA Date: 02/10/20 06:00 Re: Reading and Northern derailment?? Author: bigsavage Pics of the probable cause, broken rail at the previous crossing.
Probably dates from x-CNJ days. No further comment so as not to offend the squeamish or OCD-afflicted, Thomas Howell pics from Friends of the R&N FB site.    Date: 02/10/20 06:24 Re: Reading and Northern derailment?? Author: cinder With the dramatic video, it sure was a BFD ...... at least in the eyes of this beholder.
Date: 02/10/20 08:27 Re: Reading and Northern derailment?? Author: dschlegel ALCO630 Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > Between WFMZ, Facebook and all of the preaching > here, you would think this was a catastrophe of > biblical proportions. > > Posted from iPhone I started the thread looking for more information because WFMZ had very little. I didn’t intend to start a safety briefing. Dan Date: 02/10/20 08:36 Re: Reading and Northern derailment?? Author: mp208 looks like a wheel(s) dropped inside wide gauge before the rail broke. Look at the spike heads
Date: 02/10/20 09:47 Re: Reading and Northern derailment?? Author: flarails882 What is the speed limit in this area?
Date: 02/10/20 10:19 Re: Reading and Northern derailment?? Author: boejoe Glad no injuries to crew or locals. Glad no passenger run involved (with 425!)
Date: 02/10/20 14:40 Re: Reading and Northern derailment?? Author: EdP And the ties in the area don't look too good either.
Date: 02/11/20 18:00 Re: Reading and Northen derailment?? Author: SantaFeRuss JPB Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > BMH Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > Caught on camera > > https://youtu.be/ioMcqBIDnao > > > > BMH > > Wow - pretty amazing footage! Looks like > videographer was fortunately zooming in as opposed > to standing right next to the tracks. Was it the > 1st covered hopper of the last batch of covered > hoppers went off the rails first? The photographer was NOT zooming in. He was right at the gate! He had God with him as he very easily could have been struck by an errant rail or a wheel or other debris like a friggin freightcar gone wild!!! Great footage but kinda foolish to be that close to a derailment in progress. SantaFeRuss |