Major CSX Derailment in Worchester MA

From WCVB.com. Major CSX derailment under Cambridge Street Overpass in Worcester NA,

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The location is approximately two miles west of Worcester Union Station.

The article below from MassLive.com indicates the train was traveling on Providence and Worchester tracks.

https://www.masslive.com/news/index.ssf ... worce.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Evidently they tried to run a double stack underneath the overpass.

The derailment was on the P&W's Worcester-Plainfield/Groton line, which in my unscientific observations over the years, is an unusual place for double stacked containers to be located as ordinarily such containers use the Worcester-Valley Falls/Providence to go between CSX and Intransit Container off Blackstone River Rd. Apparently the Cambridge St over grade bridge isn't cleared for domestic double stacked containers as the MassDOT State Rail Plan doc indicates on page 39 (attached photo). Maybe a pair of domestic cube containers somehow was placed in the consist of what is normally international-sized (9' 6") containers? Or a pair of international containers wasn't seated correctly in a well car? OTOH, one of the articles indicated the CSX locomotive engineer was injured so perhaps the train derailed near the bridge causing a container to pop-up strikng the bridge?

https://www.mass.gov/files/documents/20 ... Comm_1.pdf

Word on the rails is that the G&W recently put out a new employee timetable and didn't transfer the prohibition of stacks to the Norwich Main. Fortunately the Conductor wasn't killed.

yikes this could have been a lot worse

Did anyone keep an eye on the cleanup? Any insight yet on cause?

ANRP2 wrote:Did anyone keep an eye on the cleanup? Any insight yet on cause?

The cause was known immediately. The CSXT crew shoved doublestacks down the Norwich Main, which cannot accommodate double stacks.