Derailment 2x - Same Place- 11 MONTHS!

1:30 AM, Sunday, January 7th. The place was Montmagny Quebec, the second major derailment in the same spot in less than a year.

Article and Photos;

http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/n ... 3aaf0666d2

This time, they got lucky.

D/

Having two accidents at the same site was, until now, a phenomenon that only seemed to occur on Metra; in fact, both of Metra's most recent derailments not only occured at the same site 18 months apart, but with precisely the same locomotive! Wonder if a simliar coincidence occurred with this accident...

doepack wrote:Having two accidents at the same site was, until now, a phenomenon that only seemed to occur on Metra; in fact, both of Metra's most recent derailments not only occured at the same site 18 months apart, but with precisely the same locomotive! Wonder if a simliar coincidence occurred with this accident...

Comiskey Park area?

Last year's wreck was a small train, this was over 200 cars long. Another case for not dropping the number of people in a cab down to one. Anybody want the caboose back for safety reasons?

Last year the bridge was taken out, this year it looks like it will need a rebuild as well. The only thing I heard so far is that it might have been caused by a rocking empty.

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You say over 200 cars?
One report says it was 80 cars.
Another report said it was like 150 or so.

WHICH ONE IS RIGHT?

Seems lately on CN an 80 car train is a mere wayfreight. They run the road freights REALLY long. For me personally, the longest CN freight I've seen was 178 cars on an eastbound on the Kingston Sub.

If you ever have to wait at a grade crossing for a monster westbound to climb the hill on the York Sub in east Toronto, bring a good book... you'll get through a chapter waiting.

I can't get an accurate # either. I wonder if it was a train being run in sections due to excessive length? A few years back, I saw three southbound trains back to back about 30 Km south of Levis. I can't find anymore pictures either.

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Regarding big trains on CN, I copied this from C-N-R List at Yahoo Groups:

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"CN M32121 12 by Clarke West (mile 289 CN Kingston Sub) at 0044-13 with...

CN 2529
CN 5436
-100 mixed freight
CN 2205
-90 mixed freight

For those of you who can't add, that's 190 cars!!! He was doing a whopping 40mph downhill, and I overheard him telling another train that the DPU was a piece of junk, thus, probably why the train was 8
hours late!

TDS (Bowmanville, ON)"
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I saw this guy at roughly 1630hrs while eating at a truck stop in Napanee, ON. I noticed the DPU unit and did a tripple take... unbelieveable.

This one's falling off the radar outside of Greater Montmagny; any news on the cause of the derailment?

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