Passenger Trains > Amtrak work train in the ground, Odenton MD

This follows just days after the work train burned in New Jersey...

Link is: https://cbsloc.al/2JS8R3Z

Poor Herzog, Poor Amtrak....

“Trains traveling between BWI Marshall Airport and New Carrollton, Md. are currently experiencing very minimal delays following an earlier issue with disabled maintenance equipment in Odenton, Md. Crews are working to make repairs and there were no injuries or track damage,” Amtrak told WJZ in an email.

Imagine that, disabled train with no track damage according to Amtrak!!! There are multiple Herzog rock cars on their sides! Can anyone say BOONDOGGLE....



Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 07/12/19 12:21 by PC1974.

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Another view... Trucks are laying all over the place...

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You can see track damage in the photo. More fake news from Amtrak (like the departure board  showing the Hoosier State departing from Chicago a day or two ago). 

Brings a whole new meaning to dumping rock . . .



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/12/19 12:55 by Phantom_of_Cajon.

The derailment was on track #1 which was out of service and the track to the left of the involved track is the lead to/from the Odenton Maintenance Base. Fortunitely tracks #2 & #3 at this location are farther away from track #1, allowing trains to still pass by.

At least they didn't spin it with "Lost contact with the rail," this time.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/12/19 18:56 by GenePoon.

andersonb109 Wrote:
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> You can see track damage in the photo.

What damage can you see?

Curious as to how we explain this derailment? Was there a MOW derail on the OOS track that someone forgot about and shoved over? Seems odd.

Any experienced MW person would look at this and know exactly what happened.  Classic rookie mistake: unloading stone for the high side shoulder, and forgetting you have to even out the load in the car or they fall over.  Like the guy at the lumber yard unlaoding the bulk head flat, take the stacks of plywood off the near side, call hulchers, pick the car up and unload the orther side...

I understand there was a newly minted foreman n charge of the unloading.  He won't make that mistake again.


irhoghead Wrote:
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> Curious as to how we explain this derailment? Was
> there a MOW derail on the OOS track that someone
> forgot about and shoved over? Seems odd.

Well, it has been said that experience comes from bad decisions...