FUD Wrote:
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> Tracks can't be better than they were back when I
> worked in Sonoma County (when the Real NWP was
> still running things). Schellville was always a
> bad spot, with the curve, the switches, and the
> mucky sometimes-flooded ground in the winter.
> Derailment not a surprise.
>
> Guess somebody's going to have to pay for a few
> emergency truckloads for Lagunitas, or maybe
> whatever chicken feed place might still be getting
> shipments...

Took a look at the derailment. Looked like water soaked ties could not hold gage on yard track turnout curve . Cars derailed on soft ground and the engine pulled hard enough to string line and plop two hoppers on their side.