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Trainnews - volume 3 - issue 72
Author: Espee99
Date: 04-03-2010 - 19:25
Trainnews - volume 3 - issue 72 - 04/03/10
Service Notice = Due to maintenance this weekend the photos may load slower as they have been moved to a backup machine. I expect to have the regular server back online early next week after maintenance work. Thanks for you understanding.
HAPPY EASTER
This day in Railroad History
April 3, 2005
About 9:35 a.m., westbound Amtrak train No. 27, consisting of a single locomotive unit and four cars, derailed at MP 58.56 on the BNSF Railway Company’s Northwest Division. The train was traveling 60 mph on single main line track when it derailed as it was traveling through a curve in a cut section of the Columbia River Gorge on the north side of the river near Home Valley, Washington. Post accident investigation found there were 19 consecutive concrete ties that exhibited rail seat abrasion, which ranged in depth from 1/16 inch to 1 1/4 inches into the concrete surface on the outside curve rail. The voids between the bottom of the rail and the top of the concrete crossties allowed the rail to deflect downward and rotate outward under load. During the 12 days prior to the accident, four separate “rough riding” reports were made regarding the area where the train later derailed. The first report was not followed by an inspection, but followup inspections were conducted in response to the subsequent three reports. Only one of the 3 followups was conducted by the BNSF track inspector regularly assigned to the area where the accident occurred. The other two inspections were conducted by a substitute inspector normally assigned to an adjacent track territory.
[www.ntsb.gov]
This day in Railroad History
April 4, 1887
The St. Louis Car Company was founded at St. Louis, Missouri for the explicit purpose of building streetcars. In 1889 the 400 car manufacturing capacity was exceeded. At the turn of the century, there had been four competing streetcar builders in the city of St. Louis: the American Car Company, the Brownell Car Company, the Laclede Car Company, and the St. Louis Car Company. Brownell had been taken over by American in 1900. American in turn had been acquired by the J.G. Brill Company in 1902. And Laclede was acquired by St. Louis Car in 1903, ostensibly as a means of giving St. Louis improved capacity.
[www.midcontinent.org]
Photo of the Day
Tonight's Photo - Please send photos to trainnews1@yahoo.com.
UP SD70M No. 4513 leads a westbound stack train as it approaches the small town of Morgan, Utah as it passes by snow covered mountains in the Wasatch Range in Weber Canyon on UP’s Evanston Subdivision on February 9, 2008. This photo was taken from a grade crossing just north of Morgan
Alex Mayes photo
Domestic News
TRAX fare scofflaws, train safety issues targeted by UTA cops
[www.sltrib.com]
Train derails in Greenwood
[www.tulsaworld.com]
Sound Transit installs lube-machines to quiet noisy tracks near Mount Baker Station
[seattletimes.nwsource.com]
Train crashes into abandoned car
[www.jamestownsun.com]
Train Hits Cement Truck Near Inola
[www.ktul.com]
Train Days sponsorships available
[kingsvillerecord.our-hometown.com]
Railtown begins weekend steam train operations
[www.recordnet.com]
Rare opportunity to see steam locomotive here
[kingsvillerecord.our-hometown.com]
Fares drive MetroRail numbers way down
[www.statesman.com]
Metrolink won't cut all west county trains
[www.vcstar.com]
Rebirth of the railroad
[www.morning-times.com]
Gas boom sparking rail revival
[www.dailyitem.com]
Which way to go on Fort Worth transit plans?
[www.star-telegram.com]
Caltrain ponders return to commute-only service
[www.sfgate.com]
and
Future of Caltrain in Question and Electrification Environmental Report Approval Delayed
[www.examiner.com]
Pownal board wants track road to be reopened
[www.benningtonbanner.com]
Railroad worker killed in crash was Visalia man
[www.kswt.com]
Locomotive fire and grass fire calls come in near the same time
[www.thebatavian.com]
Mare Island eager for railroad's full return
[www.timesheraldonline.com]
Canadian News
SORRY NO CANADIAN NEWS FOUND BY SEARCH TONIGHT
International News
New Surat-Ahmedabad train to ease vacation rush
[www.indianexpress.com]
Train tunnel named after engineer
[www.thisiswesternmorningnews.co.uk]
Attacker kicks man in path of Paris subway train
[www.ottawacitizen.com]
Transport, electricity ministries start railroad
[www.zawya.com]
Trains halted as car crashes at Darlington railway bridge
[www.thenorthernecho.co.uk]
Saudi phosphate railway line to be finished by end of 2010
[www.steelguru.com]
A train fit for a queen
[www.independent.co.uk]
Gathering steam
[www.indianexpress.com]
Running Extra
Salinas rodeo's barbecue came about by chance
[www.thecalifornian.com]
All aboard! A look back at the Doodlebug Express
[www.bastropenterprise.com]
Service Notice = Due to maintenance this weekend the photos may load slower as they have been moved to a backup machine. I expect to have the regular server back online early next week after maintenance work. Thanks for you understanding.
HAPPY EASTER
This day in Railroad History
April 3, 2005
About 9:35 a.m., westbound Amtrak train No. 27, consisting of a single locomotive unit and four cars, derailed at MP 58.56 on the BNSF Railway Company’s Northwest Division. The train was traveling 60 mph on single main line track when it derailed as it was traveling through a curve in a cut section of the Columbia River Gorge on the north side of the river near Home Valley, Washington. Post accident investigation found there were 19 consecutive concrete ties that exhibited rail seat abrasion, which ranged in depth from 1/16 inch to 1 1/4 inches into the concrete surface on the outside curve rail. The voids between the bottom of the rail and the top of the concrete crossties allowed the rail to deflect downward and rotate outward under load. During the 12 days prior to the accident, four separate “rough riding” reports were made regarding the area where the train later derailed. The first report was not followed by an inspection, but followup inspections were conducted in response to the subsequent three reports. Only one of the 3 followups was conducted by the BNSF track inspector regularly assigned to the area where the accident occurred. The other two inspections were conducted by a substitute inspector normally assigned to an adjacent track territory.
[www.ntsb.gov]
This day in Railroad History
April 4, 1887
The St. Louis Car Company was founded at St. Louis, Missouri for the explicit purpose of building streetcars. In 1889 the 400 car manufacturing capacity was exceeded. At the turn of the century, there had been four competing streetcar builders in the city of St. Louis: the American Car Company, the Brownell Car Company, the Laclede Car Company, and the St. Louis Car Company. Brownell had been taken over by American in 1900. American in turn had been acquired by the J.G. Brill Company in 1902. And Laclede was acquired by St. Louis Car in 1903, ostensibly as a means of giving St. Louis improved capacity.
[www.midcontinent.org]
Photo of the Day
Tonight's Photo - Please send photos to trainnews1@yahoo.com.
UP SD70M No. 4513 leads a westbound stack train as it approaches the small town of Morgan, Utah as it passes by snow covered mountains in the Wasatch Range in Weber Canyon on UP’s Evanston Subdivision on February 9, 2008. This photo was taken from a grade crossing just north of Morgan
Alex Mayes photo
Domestic News
TRAX fare scofflaws, train safety issues targeted by UTA cops
[www.sltrib.com]
Train derails in Greenwood
[www.tulsaworld.com]
Sound Transit installs lube-machines to quiet noisy tracks near Mount Baker Station
[seattletimes.nwsource.com]
Train crashes into abandoned car
[www.jamestownsun.com]
Train Hits Cement Truck Near Inola
[www.ktul.com]
Train Days sponsorships available
[kingsvillerecord.our-hometown.com]
Railtown begins weekend steam train operations
[www.recordnet.com]
Rare opportunity to see steam locomotive here
[kingsvillerecord.our-hometown.com]
Fares drive MetroRail numbers way down
[www.statesman.com]
Metrolink won't cut all west county trains
[www.vcstar.com]
Rebirth of the railroad
[www.morning-times.com]
Gas boom sparking rail revival
[www.dailyitem.com]
Which way to go on Fort Worth transit plans?
[www.star-telegram.com]
Caltrain ponders return to commute-only service
[www.sfgate.com]
and
Future of Caltrain in Question and Electrification Environmental Report Approval Delayed
[www.examiner.com]
Pownal board wants track road to be reopened
[www.benningtonbanner.com]
Railroad worker killed in crash was Visalia man
[www.kswt.com]
Locomotive fire and grass fire calls come in near the same time
[www.thebatavian.com]
Mare Island eager for railroad's full return
[www.timesheraldonline.com]
Canadian News
SORRY NO CANADIAN NEWS FOUND BY SEARCH TONIGHT
International News
New Surat-Ahmedabad train to ease vacation rush
[www.indianexpress.com]
Train tunnel named after engineer
[www.thisiswesternmorningnews.co.uk]
Attacker kicks man in path of Paris subway train
[www.ottawacitizen.com]
Transport, electricity ministries start railroad
[www.zawya.com]
Trains halted as car crashes at Darlington railway bridge
[www.thenorthernecho.co.uk]
Saudi phosphate railway line to be finished by end of 2010
[www.steelguru.com]
A train fit for a queen
[www.independent.co.uk]
Gathering steam
[www.indianexpress.com]
Running Extra
Salinas rodeo's barbecue came about by chance
[www.thecalifornian.com]
All aboard! A look back at the Doodlebug Express
[www.bastropenterprise.com]
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