International Railroad Discussion > Derailment in Rumo narrow guage system (Brazil)

Hi, a broken rail caused a derailment of Rumo narrow guage locomotives today between the locations of Monte Castelo (LME) and Papanduva (LPV) in Santa Catarina state, in the South. Nobody was hurt.
Pics from a friend.

Pedro Rezende
Vespasiano MG,

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More pics...

Pedro Rezende
Vespasiano MG,
https://youtube.com/c/minasgeraisrailways1

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A Brado SD40-2...

Pedro Rezende
Vespasiano MG,
https://youtube.com/c/minasgeraisrailways1

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Another one...

Pedro Rezende
Vespasiano MG,
https://youtube.com/c/minasgeraisrailways1

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A video

 

Pedro Rezende
Vespasiano MG,
https://youtube.com/c/minasgeraisrailways1

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Sorry to see you have a derailment. Glad no one was hurt. A broken rail sure can make a mess of things as your interesting pictures show us.

Larry

Quite a mess, glad no one was hurt. I was surprised to see the 3 axle trucks. I thought all of the converted standard gauge locomotives rode on 4 axle truck systems.

Pedro -- Cool pics and close up footage. Getting those locomotives out of there looks like it's going to tear up the ROW. 

These units were converted by former ALL railroad. People use to say that this was a "poor convertion" project, since ALL had no money to use BB+BB trucks. Actually, they converted just one GE to BB33M, but the cost was high and they preffered to lose tractice effort and use smaller traction motors in the original C-C trucks than to invest the convertion to BB+BB. They also preffered to use more units to compensate the lack of tractive effort per unit.

1019X Wrote:
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> Quite a mess, glad no one was hurt. I was
> surprised to see the 3 axle trucks. I thought all
> of the converted standard gauge locomotives rode
> on 4 axle truck systems.

Pedro Rezende
Vespasiano MG,
https://youtube.com/c/minasgeraisrailways1



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/30/21 18:41 by pedrop.

Another amazing set of pics Pedro.You folks seem to have more that your share of derails.
Regards,DK

Thank you Pedro, I enjoy your reports from Brazil.
Charlie
pedrop Wrote:
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> These units were converted by former ALL railroad.
> People use to say that this was a "poor
> convertion" project, since ALL had no money to use
> BB+BB trucks. Actually, they converted just one GE
> to BB33M, but the cost was high and they preffered
> to lose tractice effort and use smaller traction
> motors in the original C-C trucks than to invest
> the convertion to BB+BB. They also preffered to
> use more units to compensate the lack of tractive
> effort per unit.
>
> 1019X Wrote:
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> > Quite a mess, glad no one was hurt. I was
> > surprised to see the 3 axle trucks. I thought
> all
> > of the converted standard gauge locomotives
> rode
> > on 4 axle truck systems.

Was the standing unit in the lead, Pedro?  The other end of the consist didn't look as though someone would have walked away without serious injury.

Greg Stadter
Phoenix, AZ

Hi, the lead units is the first SD lying on its side.
Perro 
E25 Wrote:
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> Was the standing unit in the lead, Pedro?  The
> other end of the consist didn't look as though
> someone would have walked away without serious
> injury.

Pedro Rezende
Vespasiano MG,
https://youtube.com/c/minasgeraisrailways1



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/05/21 08:15 by pedrop.