Locomotive fuel spill at Devens 10-23-2016

[MEC407]

From the Sentinel & Enterprise:

DEVENS -- A Pan Am Railways locomotive apparently struck something along train tracks behind Independence Drive in Devens on Sunday, puncturing a fuel tank and causing about 2,400 gallons of diesel fuel to spill, according to a spokesman for the state Department of Environmental Protection.

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[MEC407]

Update from the Sentinel & Enterprise:

Pan Am has already dug a test pit to determine the depth of groundwater and what materials will need to be removed and taken off-site, Coletta said.
Ties and rails will need to come up to access the soil and rock ballast under the tracks.

"There's probably a heck of a lot more excavation work starting tomorrow," he said.

The engine was not towing a train, it was being switched in the yard, Scarano said. The locomotives are parked on a pad, but the pads do not cover the entire yard.

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[MEC407]

Does anyone in that area know the number of the pierced locomotive?

[guilfordrailfan]

Does anyone in that area know the number of the pierced locomotive?

MEC 616.

[MEC407]

Thanks!

[johnpbarlow]

PAR can top-off next POSE that has Everett dirty dirt gons with some icing on the cake from Hill Yard....

[BandA]

Nasty. No information about what sliced the tank open - some chunk of metal from another engine? Hope Ayer has town water....