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Any Mavericks on the train that derailed in Ohio ?

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With my luck mine might be on the train . It shipped 1/27 to Delaware and I dont have a rail car number. I hope everybody in that area are safe.
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Haven't seen any mention of auto rack cars, but that doesn't mean there weren't any on this train.

EDIT: Seems there may have been some after all. See: ten-mavericks-lost-in-east-palestine-train-derailment.27799

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https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/04/us/train-derailment-fire-palestine-ohio.html

A train derailment caused a huge fire to erupt in eastern Ohio on Friday night, prompting officials to order about half of a town’s residents to evacuate as crews assessed whether the cargo contained toxic material, the authorities said.
Roughly 50 cars derailed around 9 p.m. in East Palestine, Ohio, which has 4,700 residents and is about 50 miles northwest of Pittsburgh, Pa.
On Saturday, local and federal officials and Norfolk Southern, the rail operator, were still investigating the cause of the derailment, which led to a fire that swept much of the town in smoke and cast a red glow over homes in the area overnight.
There were no reports of injuries or deaths, Trent Conaway, the mayor of East Palestine, said at a news conference on Saturday. But 1,500 to 2,000 residents were asked to evacuate the area near the derailment, officials said.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/02/04/east-palestine-ohio-train-derailment/

A fire continued to burn Saturday in Northeastern Ohio, after the derailment of a train carrying hazardous chemicals forced officials to order more than 1,500 residents to evacuate their homes.
Twenty hours after the Friday night crash, the presence of the chemicals made it too risky for emergency responders to get close enough to put out the fire, local and federal officials said. Fifty cars derailed, 20 of which contained hazardous materials. Some cars contained vinyl chloride, a carcinogen, but federal officials said they couldn’t say whether vinyl chloride was on fire.

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Aside from vinyl chloride, neither Norfolk Southern nor the NTSB said what substances the train was carrying – and which might be on fire. A board member for the NTSB, which is investigating the incident, said the agency had a list of chemicals that may have been on board but had not verified it.
Four of the rail cars were carrying vinyl chloride, and at least one was emitting the chemical via a safety release device, Graham said.
“[Vinyl chloride] is one of the chemicals that’s in there, but there’s also other hazardous materials in there. So right now they’re all posing a danger to us. We’re treating them all equally,” said NTSB investigator-in-charge Ruben Payan.
The train was heading from Illinois to Conway, Pa., when it derailed near the Pennsylvania border. The track is a thoroughfare for trains carrying “a lot of different product,” Drabick said.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/04/us/east-palestine-ohio-train-derailment-fire/index.html

https://abcnews.go.com/US/train-derails-flames-ohio-causes-half-town-evacuate/story?id=96892580

https://www.wkbn.com/news/local-new...-scene-of-train-derailment-in-east-palestine/

https://www.wkbn.com/news/local-new...ailment-fire-was-visible-on-pittsburgh-radar/

https://www.wkbn.com/news/local-new...fter-train-derailment-fire-in-east-palestine/

https://www.wtae.com/article/train-derailment-east-palestine-ohio/42762517

https://www.wfmj.com/story/48310178/train-derailment-fire-evacuation-in-east-palestine

https://www.post-gazette.com/news/n...n-derailment-ohio-border/stories/202302030111
 
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Wow,hell of a fire! Amazing no deaths.
 

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Lots of bad chemicals too ! Hopefully my dealer will have a rail number for me tomorrow .
 

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new urgent evacuation order 2 hrs ago, 1 mile out. county sheriff threatening to arrest refusers with children.
 

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National news footage showed the fire was still burning last night with at least 20 rail cars derailed.
 

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Looking at pictures, it was mostly tankers and a few box cars. Seemed to be more industrial than commercial.

Hopefully they get that situation worked out soon.
 
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Sad. Fires are out of control and they are monitoring a tank car for a bleve situation. Not good. My dealer called and tracked my Maverick outside Champaign Ill . I guess I dodged that train. Prayers out there to the local residents.
 

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I'd forgotten I'd signed up for alerts from Norfolk Southern last year while I was trying to track my Maverick. This alert just arrived via email:

[NSAlert] Service Alert - Derailment at East Palestine, OH

February 6, 2023

Efforts continue to restore service following the train derailment that occurred in East Palestine, OH on February 3rd. There is still no estimate on when service will be returned to the route and alternate routes continue to be used in an effort to minimize shipment and availability delays. These routes will add additional time to transit and customers should expect delays of at least 24 hours on shipments moving between Cleveland and the Northeast via Pittsburgh, PA.

Norfolk Southern will continue to provide updates as available.
 

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With my luck mine might be on the train . It shipped 1/27 to Delaware and I dont have a rail car number. I hope everybody in that area are safe.
Contacted Ford this a
.m. My Mav is on a train that recently left Madison IL. - which is where the doomed train departed from. No idea if it was on the derailed train. I only saw one news report that said that autos were included in the freight. Given the fact that it has taken 15 months to get built, I would not be surprised if my Mav is now crispy critter.
 

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Contacted Ford this a
.m. My Mav is on a train that recently left Madison IL. - which is where the doomed train departed from. No idea if it was on the derailed train. I only saw one news report that said that autos were included in the freight. Given the fact that it has taken 15 months to get built, I would not be surprised if my Mav is now crispy critter.
If any consolation, if your Maverick was damaged or lost in this derailment, it will be the first thing Ford schedules. Damaged replacements are at the very top of their priority list. Could even end up with that mysterious Priority 1.

But I couldn't see in autoracks in the images I saw. Unfortunately, most were by drone and very far away.
 
 




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