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DMIR wreck inTwo Harbors, MN in 2010.

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Posted by BaltACD on Wednesday, November 11, 2020 1:22 PM

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Good of the NTSB to let us know that the second locomotive was located directly behind the first one.

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Posted by MMLDelete on Wednesday, November 11, 2020 1:07 PM

Good of the NTSB to let us know that the second locomotive was located directly behind the first one.

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Posted by BaltACD on Wednesday, November 11, 2020 8:34 AM

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BaltACD 
NP Eddie
ALL:

On 9 30 10, five IC SD40-2's were destroyed in a derailment and wreck in Two Harbors, MN. All five were XBN locomotives and I believe that the IC removed the dynamic brakes (I have seen photographs and saw one in person).

Can anyone add details to this wreck and confirmed that they did not have DB's.

Thank you,

Ed Burns 

More details than you will likely want to know!  Dynamic Brakes did not cause the accident.

https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/AccidentReports/Reports/RAR1301.pdf#search=2010%20railroad 

Maybe I'm jst a boring person, but that was a pretty interesting read. Thanks for the link.

Man failure incidents are brutal and churn one guts to read.  How something so simple can go so wrong.

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Posted by Murphy Siding on Wednesday, November 11, 2020 8:31 AM

BaltACD
 
NP Eddie
ALL:

On 9 30 10, five IC SD40-2's were destroyed in a derailment and wreck in Two Harbors, MN. All five were XBN locomotives and I believe that the IC removed the dynamic brakes (I have seen photographs and saw one in person).

Can anyone add details to this wreck and confirmed that they did not have DB's.

Thank you,

Ed Burns

 

More details than you will likely want to know!  Dynamic Brakes did not cause the accident.

https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/AccidentReports/Reports/RAR1301.pdf#search=2010%20railroad

 

Maybe I'm jst a boring person, but that was a pretty interesting read. Thanks for the link.

Thanks to Chris / CopCarSS for my avatar.

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Posted by NP Eddie on Tuesday, November 10, 2020 9:44 PM

Balt:

Thank you as I did not remember (yesterday) that the CN purhcased the DMIR and thus used IC initialed locomotives.

 

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Posted by BaltACD on Tuesday, November 10, 2020 6:23 PM

NP Eddie
ALL:

On 9 30 10, five IC SD40-2's were destroyed in a derailment and wreck in Two Harbors, MN. All five were XBN locomotives and I believe that the IC removed the dynamic brakes (I have seen photographs and saw one in person).

Can anyone add details to this wreck and confirmed that they did not have DB's.

Thank you,

Ed Burns

More details than you will likely want to know!  Dynamic Brakes did not cause the accident.

https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/AccidentReports/Reports/RAR1301.pdf#search=2010%20railroad

Never too old to have a happy childhood!

              

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DMIR wreck inTwo Harbors, MN in 2010.
Posted by NP Eddie on Tuesday, November 10, 2020 5:48 PM

ALL:

On 9 30 10, five IC SD40-2's were destroyed in a derailment and wreck in Two Harbors, MN. All five were XBN locomotives and I believe that the IC removed the dynamic brakes (I have seen photographs and saw one in person).

Can anyone add details to this wreck and confirmed that they did not have DB's.

Thank you,

Ed Burns

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