Eastern Railroad Discussion > CSX Rail Train Pull Apart

CSX W018-07 had a wee mishap at Hamilton, Ohio this afternoon.  With a loaded rail train up front and a loaded ballast train on the rear, the weakest link was found climbing the grade out of Hamilton, Ohio toward Indianapolis.  I'm sure this sounded spectacular.  Amtrak is annulled for Sunday and cleanup is proceeding.

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How do you put it back together?

No that's a problem

It looks to me like a a separation of welded rail cars.  I would have never imagined that the rail would end up like that though.  

K8DTI Wrote:
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> ... With a loaded rail train up
> front and a loaded ballast train on the rear

Yes sir, a real money  saving move.

Precision Scheduled Railroading, 3 lies in one 



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 05/16/20 19:44 by holiwood.

Worst sun kink that I have ever seen...............

Amazing - no DPU on the rear???

Just Cut and Paste !

perklocal Wrote:
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> Just Cut and Paste !

I wouldn't want to be the one cutting.

I have a friend that is retired now that had that happen to him.  He said it took forever to get it cleaned up.  He told me what caused it but I forgot what he said.

John

Just cut them and weld them back together.  They will all just be a 100 feet shorter, who'll know!!

Wow! The more I look at that picture the worse it is. 

They're lucky it didn't happen on the busier Cincinnati Terminal Subdivision!

That is truly a great capture of something you never see. And an expensive "malfunction" for CSX, but fortunately no injury or loss of life.

same thing happened about 18 years ago in the D&H south of binghamton, rail train with 6000 tons tied on, locomotives started jumping on a greaser, than the fun started.

Neat shot!  I guess nothing to do but cut it with torches.

Randy Lundgren
Elgin, TX

Equally as bad is to remove too many spikes in advance when you are pulling up welded rail and loading it into a CWR train to abandon the line (Grand Canyon of PA) and when train about full, the entire train derails as it turned the loose rail on its side under the train. The entire loaded train had every wheel on the ground.  A wrecking contraction had to jack up ever truck and set the rail back under the wheels and secure the rails with gauge bars.  Well, this did not delay any other trains,

Bad Day Indeed. However, just to make it clear to me, is this one rail transport car that actually "pulled apart" or is it a coupler failure between two cars? Thank you.

two cars separated. 

Many MoW cars are way overage, since they don't ever go offline. Rail trains often have drawbars between cars, could have just rusted out. Not a very good idea to tie any tonnage behind one, though.