On Rotterdam Jct. Branch. Not too many details yet.
http://www.timesunion.com/local/article ... 261732.php
http://www.timesunion.com/local/article ... 261732.php
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PAS Derailment in Glenville NY 02-07-2013
- Guilford Rail System changed its name to Pan Am Railways in 2006. Discussion relating to the current operations of the Boston & Maine, the Maine Central, and the Springfield Terminal railroads (as well as the Delaware & Hudson while it was under Guilford control until 1988). Official site can be found here: PANAMRAILWAYS.COM.
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Just caught the 11pm news looks like four on the ground and no HAZMAT but the park was evacuated just in case. Have to call my pops and see if he is back home. Ill bet he had his hearing aids off and didnt hear a thing.
Will wait for the investigation but I think it's safe to say there will be some openings on the Mohawk spareboard soon.
Roger that!
paddy
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I was looking at some video of the clean up today, one of those grain cars was folded in half and tank cars about 15-20' from their trucks
From TimesUnion.com:
TimesUnion.com wrote:The railroad blames the accident on a "failure to apply (sufficient) number of handbrakes" on the individual freight cars. They were carrying soybeans or were empty, a Pan Am spokeswoman said at the time. Forty-four cars were being held in place by just three hand brakes. When another 29 cars were added, the train began rolling, reaching a speed of 18 mph when the derailment occurred.Read more at: http://www.timesunion.com/business/arti ... 584402.php" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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Pan Am Railways — Boston & Maine/Maine Central — Delaware & Hudson
Central Maine & Quebec/Montreal, Maine & Atlantic/Bangor & Aroostook
Providence & Worcester — New England — GE Locomotives
Looks like a confirmation of newpylong's post of 02-08.
"A gray crossover is definitely not company transportation."
3 handbrakes for 79 cars? Yeah.... even if they were all empty that wouldn't work.
It will if it's flat. But when you have a big cut of cars on a hill with minimal hand brakes and the cars are bled off and then you pound more on top of that...
Stuff happens sometimes unfortunately.
Last edited by jr145 on Tue Jun 11, 2013 6:57 pm, edited 1 time in total.
Everyone who's worked for the RR has been in the sh*t once or more. Some just worse than others...