CSX high-wind derailment in Batavia 3/8/17

Wind blew over a stack train:

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81 mph gust at Rochester airport. Trees down all over. Glad we set back our road trip, or we'd be on the Thruway.

CSX isn't exactly having a good day today, is it?

Seems they have it opened up, heard an eastbound through Chili about a half hour ago.

BR&P wrote:Seems they have it opened up, heard an eastbound through Chili about a half hour ago.

I saw a Facebook post that said the derailment site was in the middle of the old Batavia Yard and they
are using one of the yard tracks to walk the trains through at 5 mph.

At least traffic can keep moving.

Charlie

Anyone get the train symbol?
Andy

Eastbound Q018, per Facebook.

JoeS wrote:Eastbound Q018, per Facebook.

Q018 goes to Valleyfield,QC, no?

Yes, papers have been saying a Chicago to Montreal train.

The incident not only blocked the main tracks, but also resulted in some signal outages and road crossing protective device malfunctions. All the Amtrak trains have been experiencing several hour delays between Buffalo-Depew and Rochester, and the delays are still occurring two days later as I write this.
Andy

twropr wrote:The incident not only blocked the main tracks, but also resulted in some signal outages and road crossing protective device malfunctions. All the Amtrak trains have been experiencing several hour delays between Buffalo-Depew and Rochester, and the delays are still occurring two days later as I write this.
Andy

Most likely the signal problems are caused by power outages from the wind storm, not from the derailment.

The power outages are definitely to blame for the signal malfunction. I have seen a photo of a CSX signal box being powered by a portable generator, so the power outage had to have affected it.

Also, the Buffalo Southern RR had to spend 2 days cleaning up their line due to fallen trees from the same windstorm.

Here's one of the generators connected to (and chained to!) to several instrument sheds at CP382 on Thursday.

...FB

That chain is not going to help if someone really want to steal it.

Too bad that they did not design the shed that would include generator inside or have solar panel on the roof.