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Re: BNSF collision, derailment, south of Great Falls
Author: Holly Gibson
Date: 07-21-2011 - 12:15

Restricted Speed? Wrote:
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> ...anyone for a guess?

From the newspaper article:

BNSF spokesman Gus Melonas said the train, which consisted of 110 cars en route from Laurel to Shelby, entered into a side rail line by grain bins along Gerber Road. After the engineers on the freight train applied the brakes, it collided with a stationary maintenance train, causing the derailment.

Sounds to me like either vandalism (someone tampering with a switch) or a negligent employee who forgot to restore the switch for mainline movement (shades of the NS incident at Graniteville, SC). If it's the latter, expect the FRA to come out with a bunch of additional rules (one top of the ones spawned from Graniteville) regarding positions of mainline switches in unsignaled territory.

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  BNSF collision, derailment, south of Great Falls Bruce Kelly 07-20-2011 - 07:24
  Re: BNSF collision, derailment, south of Great Falls OPRRMS 07-20-2011 - 10:46
  Re: BNSF collision, derailment, south of Great Falls Hayden 07-20-2011 - 21:27
  Re: BNSF collision, derailment, south of Great Falls Restricted Speed? 07-20-2011 - 22:30
  Re: BNSF collision, derailment, south of Great Falls Holly Gibson 07-21-2011 - 12:15
  Re: BNSF collision, derailment, south of Great Falls Jon 07-21-2011 - 12:40
  Re: BNSF collision, derailment, south of Great Falls Holly Gibson 07-21-2011 - 12:47
  Re: BNSF collision, derailment, south of Great Falls njt 07-22-2011 - 10:24
  Re: BNSF collision, derailment, south of Great Falls BN Oly 07-21-2011 - 22:05
  Re: BNSF collision, derailment, south of Great Falls Stuart Ison 07-22-2011 - 09:52


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