Damo666 Posted May 17, 2021 Share Posted May 17, 2021 From the BBC today: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-us-canada-57145192 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mdvle Posted May 17, 2021 Share Posted May 17, 2021 UP train in Sibley Iowa, which followed a UP train derailment in Albert Lea Minnesota 2 days ago. SIbley - drone footage courtesy Reuters: Albert Lea: Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Night Train Posted May 17, 2021 Share Posted May 17, 2021 Shame they dont know the difference between carriages and wagons. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Regularity Posted May 17, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 17, 2021 1 hour ago, Night Train said: Shame they dont know the difference between carriages and wagons. Since it’s North America, they are freight cars anyway. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium melmerby Posted May 17, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 17, 2021 I assume the black gunge at Albert Lea is from ruptured tank cars. In the first one at Sibley it says UP are investigating the cause. I can tell them: It's the appalling state of a lot of the trackwork in the US. Spectacular derailments do seem fairly common. I wonder what the ratio per mile of track is? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dave1905 Posted May 18, 2021 Share Posted May 18, 2021 Its a lot less than one would think. One has to remember that the UP owns about as much track as there was in the national rail network in the UK. And its just the #2 railroad in the US. Given the marshy area of the Albert Lea derailment, I'd guess it was a subgrade problem and the reports are that the Sibley derailment was a bridge failure. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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