Posted on 30 August 2010 by Railways Africa Editor
CSX Transportation has blamed the 5 August derailment of 13 wagons in Baltimore’s 100-year-old Howard Street Tunnel on defective track, spokesman Gary Saese told The Baltimore Sun‘s Michael Dresser. CSX has not determined what led to the break, Saese said, explaining that “such damage typically is caused by an internal defect”. The track in the [...] [...more]
Posted on 30 August 2010 by Railways Africa Editor
On 25 August, a Canadian National freight train derailed 43 wagons at the Scotford Yard, about 3km north-east of Fort Saskatchewan. The “mixed cargo” included seven types of hazardous materials, from diesel to liquefied petroleum gas. There were no injuries and no public hazard resulted. The cause of the derailment is believed to have been [...] [...more]
Posted on 20 August 2010 by Railways Africa Editor
Train passengers along Amtrak’s busy north-east corridor confronted delays for most of Wednesday 11 August after a tree knocked out power and signals in Mercer County. The tree took down overhead power wires near Hamilton around 05:30, causing extensive delays between New York City and Philadelphia. By 16:00, residual delays were reduced to between 15 [...] [...more]
Posted on 20 August 2010 by Railways Africa Editor
A Wekusko Subdivision work train derailment on 12 August disrupted long-distance passenger trains in Canada’s Manitoba. Bus replacement services were provided between The Pas and Thompson. Then at the weekend, two F4 diesel locomotives hauling passenger train #693 left the track near The Pas, and was halted later by “high water” at Gilliam, Manitoba, on [...] [...more]
Posted on 20 August 2010 by Railways Africa Editor
At about 18:00 on Sunday 8 August, heavy rain during a thunderstorm flooded a level crossing in Gold Hill on the Virginia and Truckee (V&T) tourist railway in Nevada. A steam loco doing no more than 12km/h as it climbed with a train from Carson City derailed on the crossing. None of the 12 people [...] [...more]
Posted on 20 August 2010 by Railways Africa Editor
Emergency management officials in Kentucky are concerned about the incidence of CSX train derailments, being especially worried about the long rail bridge over the Ohio. Henderson County emergency management director Larry Koerber recalls that 21 wagons derailing in May was classified as a major accident by CSX. Shortly afterwards, another derailment occurred on the same [...] [...more]
Posted on 13 August 2010 by Railways Africa Editor
On 5 August, five wagons in a CSX coal train derailed south of Quantico, Virginia, “ripping up” and blocking all tracks, disrupting traffic including a number of Amtrak passenger expresses. These included trains running between Washington and Newport News, Virginia, and from New York to Miami, Charlotte, North Carolina, and Savannah, Georgia. Amtrak’s Silver Star, [...] [...more]
Posted on 13 August 2010 by Railways Africa Editor
An Iowa Interstate Railroad train derailed on 9 August in Pleasant Hill, Des Moines, Iowa, causing some road closures as four wagons landed on their sides. [...more]
Posted on 13 August 2010 by Railways Africa Editor
Unspecified track problems on the Union Pacific between Dwight and Joliet in Central Illinois put Amtrak passengers onto buses “for days” according to press reports. Travellers between the Bloomington area and Chicago were affected, as well as those bypassed by the Chicago-St Louis “Texas Eagle” express, which was rerouted. [...more]
Posted on 13 August 2010 by Railways Africa Editor
The Wayne County sheriff’s office in Goldsboro, North Carolina, has a man in custody for allegedly stealing six metal I-beams valued at $5,000.00 from the CSX Railroad. The 34-year-old was identified as a seller at recycle yards in the area on three different occasions between 24 and 26 July. He was charged with three counts [...] [...more]
Posted on 10 August 2010 by Railways Africa Editor
Canadian National (CN) officials are trying to establish why the locomotive of a 31-wagon train ran off the track at Sylvan Lake, Alberta, on 19 July and ploughed into the ground. A report in the Red Deer Advocate said it “appeared like it had run aground like a ship on a sandbar”. None of the [...] [...more]
Posted on 10 August 2010 by Railways Africa Editor
Several derailments have occurred on Dahlgren Junction industrial track in Stafford County, Virginia but industry and federal rail officials can discern no “pattern”. In the latest instance, three coal wagons in a 100-vehicle eastbound train overturned on the same line where two trains derailed some years previously. In 2001, eight wagons on a CSX coal [...] [...more]
