CSX Train Derailed After Going Into Emergency To Avoid A Truck Stuck On The Tracks

Twenty-one rail cars derailed as CSX crew tried to avoid a semi truck on the tracks

 

I wonder if those car racks were loaded

 

Trains getting a bad rap lately. The UP posted a profit of $9.9 BILLION last year, and what was "emergency mode"? Don't trains just plow through the obstruction? I bet there's more to THIS story,,,,

 

They usually try to stop, but momentum makes it impossible, they can take a mile to stop from normal running speeds.

Probably some sort of equipment/track failure from all the strain caused by the braking force.

 

Wouldn’t be surprised if they were. There’s at least 3 auto plants in Kentucky.

 

Either way I wouldn’t want to be the trucking company or the driver involved. That’s going to be an expensive cleanup job,not to mention the personal vehicles and the building that was hit when the derailment occurred!

 

Right......like he's gonna swerve?

 

Surveillance cameras caught the derailment. Note the DPU(locomotive) passing by. This was a heavy long train. Power pole was also taken out!!