CSX Train Derails in Kentucky With Ford Mavericks Among Cargo 😟

[MichaelG]

Yep. 20+ cars off tracks. All autoracks. If you want to know if your truck was on it, send me your rail car number and I will check.

Can you check my rail car location for me, please? TTGX981033

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[Sleeper 7]

All because some semi driver forgot to take 60 seconds to raise his landing gear.

Edit, not 100% sure about landing gear being the culprit. Looking at this image, it could also be that his brake air hose got caught and pulled off. Or he ignored no trucks allowed sign. Or sign could have been stolen by teenagers. We will just have to wait and see.

Either way, dummy got stuck on the tracks, causing the engineer to dynamite the brakes and, well, that didn't work out so well.

Landing gear is up. The crown in the road is to severe for a tractor trailer.

 

[Redneck Garage]

I tell ya from looking at this footage it would have been better to slow as much as possible and run thru the semi trailer. There would have been much less damage in town. Train didn't even get close to hitting the semi trailer.

Heres an example of what happens when a much heavier load is hit by a train - the truck is tissue paper. Had the conductor kept goin some folks would have been gettin their Maverick .......

 

[JBL14]

Is this day and age, why can't a conductor be notified thru a Smart phone or satellite? Usually these semi trucks are sitting on the tracks for quite awhile before they are hit. Often a police car is sitting around watching it.
It seems like an emergency system of notification needs to be pre-planned. Then the conductor can start slowing down in plenty of time. It's not like these are high speed bullet trains.
"Beep, beep......"
"Hello train 911 alert system "
"Hello this is Glendale Kentucky police, we have a semi stuck on the tracks here!"
"OK, I will contact all trains in the area."
"Thank you"

 

[RatherBeDrivingaManual]

@JBL14
That's crazy talk, as if our tax dollars are well spent & the rail roads are nationalized.

You want $1,000,000,000 of tanks for Ukraine? Right away, they shipped yesterday.

You want a phone in a train? Gtfo with that crazy talk, we can't afford to put a smart phone or cellular ipad in a train.

 

[MakinDoForNow]

I tell ya from looking at this footage it would have been better to slow as much as possible and run thru the semi trailer. There would have been much less damage in town. Train didn't even get close to hitting the semi trailer.

Heres an example of what happens when a much heavier load is hit by a train - the truck is tissue paper. Had the conductor kept goin some folks would have been gettin their Maverick .......

This train was put into emergency stop = NOT a controlled slow down. Each car becomes a 200,000 lb pile driver with about a 3" stroke. Several hundred wheels sliding on rail until it gets hot enough to soften or wheel flanges against rails being hammered by the pile driving either pushes spikes out of ties or pushing flange over rail. Did any tie down brackets or chains give away and vehicles slid to end of rail car?

 

[Redneck Garage]

I'm not sure what the point of your post is - My point is if they had not done an emergency stop and slammed on the brakes and just drove through that tin foil trailer they would have been less damage. Had they not slammed on the brakes they would have rolled right through watching pieces of that trailer as they drove by.

 

[jsus]

Is this day and age, why can't a conductor be notified thru a Smart phone or satellite? Usually these semi trucks are sitting on the tracks for quite awhile before they are hit. Often a police car is sitting around watching it.
It seems like an emergency system of notification needs to be pre-planned. Then the conductor can start slowing down in plenty of time. It's not like these are high speed bullet trains.
"Beep, beep......"
"Hello train 911 alert system "
"Hello this is Glendale Kentucky police, we have a semi stuck on the tracks here!"
"OK, I will contact all trains in the area."
"Thank you"

What's wrong with using the radios that the conductors and dispatchers already use?

The problem is getting the message to the right people in time.

 

[mr mojo risen]

Is this day and age, why can't a conductor be notified thru a Smart phone or satellite? Usually these semi trucks are sitting on the tracks for quite awhile before they are hit. Often a police car is sitting around watching it.
It seems like an emergency system of notification needs to be pre-planned. Then the conductor can start slowing down in plenty of time. It's not like these are high speed bullet trains.
"Beep, beep......"
"Hello train 911 alert system "
"Hello this is Glendale Kentucky police, we have a semi stuck on the tracks here!"
"OK, I will contact all trains in the area."
"Thank you"

@JBL14
That's crazy talk, as if our tax dollars are well spent & the rail roads are nationalized.

You want $1,000,000,000 of tanks for Ukraine? Right away, they shipped yesterday.

You want a phone in a train? Gtfo with that crazy talk, we can't afford to put a smart phone or cellular ipad in a train.

A close friend of mine briefly worked for CSX (maybe 6 months) about 5-6 years ago. Don’t know if they’ve changed their policy since then but I remember him telling me that CSX absolutely forbade employee cell phones on their trains, with violations leading to immediate termination.

 

[jsus]

A close friend of mine briefly worked for CSX (maybe 6 months) about 5-6 years ago. Don’t know if they’ve changed their policy since then but I remember him telling me that CSX absolutely forbade employee cell phones on their trains, with violations leading to immediate termination.

Yes, train conductors/engineers/etc should not be interacting with their personal electronic devices.

They should, however, have open communication lines with dispatch, keeping off-topic chatter to a minimum (or nonexistent).

 

[RatherBeDrivingaManual]

They should, however, have open communication lines with dispatch, keeping off-topic chatter to a minimum (or nonexistent).

That's what I'm talking about. An iPad locked down to one dispatch communication/emergency notification app.

 

[MM Mav]

@JBL14 as a former public safety dispatcher whose had to call RR designated "emergency" lines many times, I can tell you the process is not quick. I have waited 10 or more minutes to provide blocked crossing information.
Even if your call got answered in a reasonable time, often times the person you were speaking to had a hard time distinguishing location from city and street name/ intersection information.
It was very frustrating and sometimes quite nerve wracking depending on the scenario to call the RR.

 

[JBL14]

@JBL14 as a former public safety dispatcher whose had to call RR designated "emergency" lines many times, I can tell you the process is not quick. I have waited 10 or more minutes to provide blocked crossing information.
Even if you're call got answered in a reasonable time, often times the person you were speaking to had a hard time distinguishing location from city and street name/ intersection information.
It was very frustrating and sometimes quite nerve wracking depending on the scenario to call the RR.

Yep, I hear you there!
I guess the world is not as advanced as we might think.
I am spoiled with the instant information on my smart phone. Makes me think problems are easy to solve, but than reality sinks in. We will have to keep dealing with the million dollar train crashes, for the moment.

 

[Tailender]

All because some semi driver forgot to take 60 seconds to raise his landing gear.

Edit, not 100% sure about landing gear being the culprit. Looking at this image, it could also be that his brake air hose got caught and pulled off. Or he ignored no trucks allowed sign. Or sign could have been stolen by teenagers. We will just have to wait and see.

Either way, dummy got stuck on the tracks, causing the engineer to dynamite the brakes and, well, that didn't work out so well.

That truck must have been flying. Those landing gear slid pretty far from where the first touched and up over a hill no less.

 

[MM Mav]

A screenshot from this news report showing more damaged Mavericks

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