A little over 4 hours into clean the up process and in 20 more this Hulcher crew & NS personal had cleaned up and restored traffic and was gone after a 15 car derailment on 12-12-03
A veiw opposite of the previous shot
General Merch. train hits the ground blocks both tracks on NS Chicago Div.approx 13 cars on the ground
Better veiw of impact
Trains don't run well in ballast
The stack train was e/b and the coil train w/b. the coil train broke a axle derailed and a stack train plowed into this mess. happend at night and the stack was not running track speed, luckily.
The train in the pic is a stack train, the coil of steel is from the other track, not good.
Standing on the pile of dirt and ballast as the lead engine burrowed its way into the row. good news is its still under warranty !
Stack train hits debris from derailment of coil train that broke an axle
There had much ice in the Chicago area and I caught this e/b in K'ville with ice from the Great Lakes
