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Is April 2017 seems to have more trains derailing then normal?

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Is April 2017 seems to have more trains derailing then normal?
Posted by CandOforprogress2 on Tuesday, April 18, 2017 3:10 PM

Seems that CSX and NS are spilling trains all over the place. Would this have to do with a rather dry winter and ground conditions in April. There has not been a siganifagant rain storm in the Northeast in at least 3 weeks. The ground here in NOVA is bone dry.

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Posted by Murphy Siding on Tuesday, April 18, 2017 4:21 PM

No.  Do you?

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Posted by csxns on Tuesday, April 18, 2017 4:32 PM

CSX derailed three grain hoppers going into the Case Farms at Shelby NC today check out the Shelby Star web.

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Posted by Deggesty on Tuesday, April 18, 2017 4:45 PM

"siganifagant"  Is this a portmanteau word (ref: Lewis Carroll)? If so, what other words does it contain?

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Posted by rrnut282 on Tuesday, April 18, 2017 6:48 PM

It's spring time.  The ground heaves and subsides while thawing out.  Happens about this same time every year.  It can, and does make trackwork less stable. 

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Posted by mudchicken on Wednesday, April 19, 2017 1:55 PM

Just the annual spring surge in alarmists.

Mudchicken Nothing is worth taking the risk of losing a life over. Come home tonight in the same condition that you left home this morning in. Safety begins with ME.... cinscocom-west

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