UP derailment in Missouri

[Anonymous]

Brian,

Lemme know when you have the pics ready, and where to get them at. UP trains go through here everyday, and this was the first I had heard about any derailment when I seen your post. Didn't really notice it, because they have been running on schedule. Course, maybe where I live, it didn't get noticed. I am 20 miles from Jeff City. I also responded to your reply to my BNSF yard problem. Thanks again!

[Anonymous]

I couldn't catch the flatcars in time, however, pictures are comming!

[Anonymous]

Hopefully the leftovers from the wreck are headed to Jenks. Where one might be able to see them...
Send me the pictures when you can... I will make it worth the effort. I will communicate that content off line and not on Trains.com.

[Anonymous]

I'll try and get the flatcar numbers before they haul them off. The local moved them onto the west siding to be ready for the long run on the next local. I'll try to get out there in time! No luck so far with the pictures though, I've got an idea I'm going to try that I think will work.

[Anonymous]

Brian
do you know the flatcar numbers? I wanted to track where they go. Any luck with the digital pictures?

Thanks
Don

[Anonymous]

There used to be the week after it happened, but now I don't know if any still exist.

[Anonymous]

brian,
Is there a websight where I can view the photos of the Pacific wreck?

[Anonymous]

There is another one! This was on BNSF's cuba Sub. It happened near milepost 70, or west of sullivan. 20 cars derailed out of over a hundred. The train was mixed freight, probably a Tulsa-Galesburg freight. Does anyone else have anymore information?

[Anonymous]

Both mainlines are open at a limit of 40 mph. The totaled engines are located on the west end of the UP silica mine siding.

[Anonymous]

So they are still only using the one main there now?

Mark

[Anonymous]

Today, Monday, January 21st, the local came and picked up the gondolas full of engine shreads. The un-totaled engines had their couplers replaced and were towed away earlier, by another local. The totaled engines still remain on site, resting on the track.

[Anonymous]

Ok, as I said I made a mistake which EVERYONE here has done!

[Anonymous]

It's o.k., I had to clear out my inbox, and I found your e mails, sorry. I did reply, I'll try to send you some pictures, if I can get the stupid disk to work!

[Anonymous]

Yes, the scattered locomotive parts are being loaded into gondolas, and the bodies of the totaled locomotives are to be hauled away on flatcars, which are currently present at the site.
There is a lot of scrap like traction motors and metal shreads, as well as axles just lying around, probably to be put into the gondolas.

[Anonymous]

Trains.com news wire — Thursday December 13, 2001

Above is the header I copied from the newswire archives. It was listed in the Newswire of Trains.com on December 13th... It was quite a wreck. I live in St. Louis and it was all over the news and in the Post Dispatch the next day.

[Anonymous]

One thing, why wasn't this news on trains.com?

[Anonymous]

Sorry I owe you an apology this did happen but I did not realize this post was from last year, my uncle found it in the St. Louis news archives.

CSXRailFan

[Anonymous]

Brian
did you see what the did with the locomotive carnage? Were any units cut up on site??

[Anonymous]

I DID

[Anonymous]

Never got any E-mail either.

[Anonymous]

Oh, sorry! Where did you get the idea that it took just one day to clean up? How long have you been watching trains? Even after the retired worker confirmed the derailment and every detail in the description. Admit it!

[Anonymous]

Also buddy PM is in the evening not the morning! ( you said morning ) Thanks a lot for gettin me made like a fool because I told all my friends this happened. No way ever a wreck this large could have been cleaned up by the next day! Also we always here about derailments here in Pennsylvania even if they are all the way over in California! I want some pictures buddy!

CSXRailFan

[Anonymous]

By the way I said BNSF did not tell my Aunt and Uncle about it and what I meant by that is that guy lets my Uncle know all the news about trains and he knows just more than BNSF even though he only works for them.

CSXRailFan

[Anonymous]

Well for one reason I don't believe you I have e-mailed you for pictures and you never replied to any of them with not even a text reply!

CSXRailFan

[Anonymous]

Just looking at the damage, I would have to estimate about 11 to 12 million dollars when it's all done. Most of the excitment is gone now, however, last I saw, Sunday, the engines were still there.

[Anonymous]

Well as a just retired UP switchman I guarantee you it was one heck of a wreck. 7 million dollars and counting.

[Anonymous]

You can't possibly be serious! this was major! I was talking about Pacific, Missouri. it's kind of funny that they live there and never heard obout it. And a BNSF worker said what? C'mon! The BNSF knows about it because a little bit of coal spilled onto their passing siding near the crash, which now has a crossover being built betwen it and the UP's track. How did they not hear the bang that early in the morning, like the other people in town? With all the lights they put around it at night, it was nearly impossible not to nitice it. Not to mention the closing of Highway 66 and the torching of several coal cars, which continued for weeks after. I even found it hard to believe that the engineer was knitting, but when I found out it was true, I could hardly believe it myself! You don't have to believe me, but, the next time you go to visit your Aunt and Uncle, see for yourself.

[Anonymous]

Well I personally think your full of it, I got an Aunt and Uncle that live there and they didn't hear a thing about it and they got a friend there that works for BNSF and he did not say a thing. And that was pretty late in the evening no way they coulda got a mess that big cleaned up. If you show me pictures I will believe you but till then, no, sorry!

CSXRailFan

[Anonymous]

We have a mainline similiar to that by me in Pennsylvania I'll have to ask my Uncle from MO if he was near it, so how is the crew and do they know why the train plowed into the back of the stopped one?