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Discussion about the Union Pacific operations past and present. Official site can be found here: UPRR.COM.

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 #1546499  by Jeff Smith
 
https://www.knopnews2.com/content/news/ ... 96401.html
NORTH PLATTE, Neb. KNOP-TV Union Pacific Railroad says their crew walked away uninjured after their train derailed near Hershey around 4 p.m. Wednesday afternoon.

Union Pacific Spokesman Tim McGahan says the eastbound train derailed 14 cars that was hauling a mixture of freight.

The derailment put four rail lines out of service. Two of them reopened this morning.
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 #1552567  by John_Perkowski
 
 #1552606  by eolesen
 
That video is amazing. It's a miracle that the train stayed upright *and* on the bridge.
 #1553161  by John_Perkowski
 
I don’t know if they re railed the units and took them to Armstrong, but the auto rack is now on the ground.

At one poin, at the Union Station parking lot, there were five semis, each loaded with 640 feet of 135 lb rail track pieces.
 #1553222  by J.D. Lang
 
Virtual Railfan put together a video of their live feeds from SF Junction that was interesting first showing the derailment, then lifting the 2 partially jackknifed autoracks with cranes and placing them on the ground. They re-railed the other rack and the locos and brought them across the bridge. It looks like the derailment started at a crossover on the viaduct. It also shows 2 excavators tearing up the rails and ties and dumping them over the sides.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkui84o6rNA

Fortunately no one was hurt.
 #1617613  by fromway
 
A high rail tracklayer derailed this afternoon in a crossover in Tehacapi, CA. It was caught on YouTube as the railtrain was moving over a crossover. Not sure what happened. Currently, blocking North/South or East/West traffice as you would call it.