BNSF mainline train derailment in Arizona

Trump pulled the spikes out of the rail tie plates … it’s his fault.

Wonder how this will affect train travel and shipping? That looks pretty gnarled up and not an overnight fix.
 
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Whoops looks like that quarter trick worked for real for real this time timmy!

Ouch hope no one was hurt and its not hazardous.
 
NCFubar said:
Trump pulled the spikes out of the rail tie plates … it’s his fault.

Wonder how this will affect train travel and shipping? That looks pretty gnarled up and not an overnight fix.
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Looking at the map, not a lot of alternate routes, only a loop north or a loop south, both being 85+ miles or so.

I've never been west of Memphis but from what I hear I-40 out west is a pretty busy highway.

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Gator said:
Looking at the map, not a lot of alternate routes, only a loop north or a loop south, both being 85+ miles or so.

I've never been west of Memphis but from what I hear I-40 out west is a pretty busy highway.
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That section of I-40 will be reopened tonight. It was closed per SOP for HAZMAT Response … there was no damage to the interstate. The bigger question is the rail system that was subject to the fire from 2 or 3 tanker cars carrrying liquid petroleum products that torched ad heated the rails for X number of feet. NTSB will be performing its investigation with repair crews right behind them forming a plan and acting. These 2 railways support a big part of freight and Amtack traffic heads to and from Southern California. Hours down is bad … days are horrible. The rail repair crews respond to things like is like utility crew respond to hurricanes … warp speed.
 
Gator said:
Looking at the map, not a lot of alternate routes, only a loop north or a loop south, both being 85+ miles or so.

I've never been west of Memphis but from what I hear I-40 out west is a pretty busy highway.

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Its VERY remote in that area....

No gas stations, no motels, no cafes, no nothing.
 
Our infrastructure is being attacked. For a long while now. Foreign or domestic I have zero clue. Que the wild fires, bird flu’s and airplane parts falling from the sky. Good times!
 
NCFubar said:
That section of I-40 will be reopened tonight. It was closed per SOP for HAZMAT Response … there was no damage to the interstate. The bigger question is the rail system that was subject to the fire from 2 or 3 tanker cars carrrying liquid petroleum products that torched ad heated the rails for X number of feet. NTSB will be performing its investigation with repair crews right behind them forming a plan and acting. These 2 railways support a big part of freight and Amtack traffic heads to and from Southern California. Hours down is bad … days are horrible. The rail repair crews respond to things like is like utility crew respond to hurricanes … warp speed.
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The highway might not be opened untill tomorrow pending an inspection on the interstate bridge that crosses over the mainline. The crash/ explosion was right next to that bridge. The tankers were allowed to burn out on their own.
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Westbound Amtrack was held in Gallup for the night. In the morning, eastbound Amtrack will be held in Kingman, Az.

Trains are already backed up both ways throughout Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and California.
 
ES44AC said:
70 mph(top speed) train, it gets ugly fast when something goes wrong.
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Manifest train limited to 45 mph in that area. My brother was the engineer on the eastbound stack train behind this train. They were getting ready to run around the manifest train when they had a signal malfunction and the dispatcher delayed them prior to crossing the signal, otherwise they would have been passing them about the time this happened.


Amtrack runs 90 mph through this area.
 
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