Eastern Railroad Discussion > NS Derailment Anniston Alabama???

Heard Derailment on NS happened upsetting Amtrak service with 19 and 20 today anyone have an Update?

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Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 03/09/23 09:57 by mobujr.

Minor point-- Anniston is in Alabama.

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https://www.wbrc.com/2023/03/09/train-derails-east-calhoun-county/

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30 cars at 6:45 AM this morning.

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Video of clean  up from Birmingham TV station.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ui-BDThA9rs

Bob

Any word on train length / consist?

Train is was 245. Not sure the other info

Csxt4568

Not very good photo but looks like MAYBE a washout? Glad no fire or injuries this time.
JB

3rdswitch Wrote:
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> Not very good photo but looks like MAYBE a
> washout? Glad no fire or injuries this time.
> JB

Several pics on Facebook.  No washout.  Looks like a string line on the head end. Fairly sharp curve on fill, looks like cars derailed to the inside of the curve.  2 UP motors, 2 NS motors, 2 junk ex Wabash Central, ex IC geeps dead in tow, the two auto rack still on track, derailed covered hopper, then the mess with several empty (nothing coming out of open hatches) 2 bay CEMX covered hoppers and another one of those new NS cover coil cars at the head end of a big pile of cars.  

After that media alert sent from NS about those new coil steel cars, I am willing to bet that there was another loose wheel on that coil car that caused this derailment. 


scraphauler Wrote:
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> 3rdswitch Wrote:
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> > Not very good photo but looks like MAYBE a
> > washout? Glad no fire or injuries this time.
> > JB
>
> Several pics on Facebook.  No washout.  Looks
> like a string line on the head end. Fairly sharp
> curve on fill, looks like cars derailed to the
> inside of the curve.  2 UP motors, 2 NS motors, 2
> junk ex Wabash Central, ex IC geeps dead in tow,
> the two auto rack still on track, derailed covered
> hopper, then the mess with several empty (nothing
> coming out of open hatches) 2 bay CEMX covered
> hoppers and another one of those new NS cover coil
> cars at the head end of a big pile of cars.  

That’s not the same type of coil car. Loose wheels are from National Steel Car. The coil car in the Alabama derailment is a FreightCar America built coil car.

ah, my miss. 


CFI_85 Wrote:
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> That’s not the same type of coil car. Loose
> wheels are from National Steel Car. The coil car
> in the Alabama derailment is a FreightCar America
> built coil car.

scraphauler Wrote:
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> 3rdswitch Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Not very good photo but looks like MAYBE a
> > washout? Glad no fire or injuries this time.
> > JB
>
> Several pics on Facebook.  No washout.  Looks
> like a string line on the head end. Fairly sharp
> curve on fill, looks like cars derailed to the
> inside of the curve.  2 UP motors, 2 NS motors, 2
> junk ex Wabash Central, ex IC geeps dead in tow,
> the two auto rack still on track, derailed covered
> hopper, then the mess with several empty (nothing
> coming out of open hatches) 2 bay CEMX covered
> hoppers and another one of those new NS cover coil
> cars at the head end of a big pile of cars.  

Did those two old IC geeps coupled together have alignment control drawbars?  If the train was downgrade in heavy dynamic brake, two units with non-alignment control drawbars coupled could spread the rails.

Jimbo Wrote:
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> Did those two old IC geeps coupled together have
> alignment control drawbars?  If the train was
> downgrade in heavy dynamic brake, two units with
> non-alignment control drawbars coupled could
> spread the rails.

Good question. I had wondered about that myself. 

I recall a wreck they had maybe a couple of decades ago where there may had been a similar issue with a couple of SW1500's which the railroad had sold and was moving to the customer.

How many young employees even know that there are locomotives without alignment control drawbars?

ctillnc Wrote:
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> How many young employees even know that there are
> locomotives without alignment control drawbars?

Instructions on not coupling together two locomotives with non-alignment control draft gear used to be in N&W and NS timetables.  Who knows nowadays?  Those N&W units used to have a line under the locomotive numbers on the side of the cab indicating non-alignment control.