Flat-Wheeler wrote:sd80mac wrote:Since it is inside the curve, RR could have decided that there's small slim chance of house being demolished by derailment. With that curve, majority of cars would spill toward to outside of curve.
This house I wouldn't worry about. but the other house on Quaker Rd is on the outside of curve... Eastbound could roll over and down the embankment. The house is about 100' or so but way below the trackside. The derailment cars would not have any problem reaching that house.
Correct about that Quaker Rd crossing house, but don't forget when a train derails at speed, they will accordion and stack up both sides of the tracks. Remember the mountain of cars piled up at CP 356 just East of Wayneport Rd about 15 yrs ago ?
That would be true if it's straightway track. The Quaker RD crossing is on curve. and that house is outside of the curve. the weight and physic would have train spill toward to outside of the curve. Since it's on deep embankment, there wouldn't be any cars pushing other cars toward to inside.
pile-up at 356 in 15 yrs ago.. that would be around 2001.. I knew of none. I have been railfanning there since 1994. Basically it was my stomping area to begin with. I believe that you meant one of 2 derailments which took down signal bridge - one at CP 349 and another one somewhere in Newark along Bloom Rd I would assume CP 340, since it's signal bridge and it has to be crossover at there which I never saw the crossover myself. Conrail never bother replace that signal bridge at that spot. And I assume that they didn't bother to replace crossover at there either.
CP 349 would be the most recently pile-up coal train. CP340 (or MP 340) area is the probably you were thinking of since it happened few years after I started railfanning again in 94. Both pile-up were on straightway tracks which have accordion effect