wow rock out
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Ruined thier day!
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| Posted by mc5725 on June 7, 2005 | |
That would hurt!
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Let me make sure I got this straight... The trains closer to us hit head-on and in thier collision, nailed the passing train. right?
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From what I can tell the intermodal didn't stop. It then ran into the empty coal train which was in the process of crossing over from one track to the other after passing the manifest on the right in the background. At least that is the way it appears to me.
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NTSB information. Coal and pig trains both eastbound main track 2, manifest was westbound on main track 1.
http://www.ntsb.gov/events/up/barstow.htm
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That looks terrible! That must have taken a long time to clean up!
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The east bound Union Pacific coal train was about to enter the west end of Barstow Yard and ran the red signal out of sight around the bend. It rear ended the last cars of the BNSF TOFC train on the same track which was stopped at its own red signal. The resulting collision deflected cars into another west bound BNSF manifest that was leaving the yard at the same time. It took less than two days to clean up the mess since there was no hazardous material involved. I was later told that the entire Union Pacific crew were not injured but found to be at fault and let go.
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