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SAN BERNANDINO CA DERAILMENT.

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spbed
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SAN BERNANDINO CA DERAILMENT.
Posted by spbed on Tuesday, April 5, 2005 10:11 AM
MSNBC says 11 cars with pesticide are on the ground. [:(][:(]

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Posted by ChuckCobleigh on Tuesday, April 5, 2005 11:20 AM
QUOTE: Originally posted by spbed

MSNBC says 11 cars with pesticide are on the ground. [:(][:(]



AP report in San Diego Union included the following:

The train, en route from Colton to Roseville in Northern California, consisted of five locomotives and 79 cars and had three crew members onboard, said Mark Davis, a spokesman for Union Pacific Railroad.

Two cars contained chlorine, three contained a flammable liquid, a car carried a fuel additive and another car carried pellets used in plastic mold injections, Davis said. Six of the 13 derailed cars were empty.
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Posted by spbed on Tuesday, April 5, 2005 11:33 AM
Hopefully none of the cars burst as some of that material is not pretty if it gets into the air. [:o)][:p]

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Posted by ChuckCobleigh on Tuesday, April 5, 2005 12:57 PM
Other parts of the article said nothing leaked, although they evacuated an adjacent mobile home park for a while, finally letting some back in but not the closest as cleanup continued.
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Posted by spbed on Tuesday, April 5, 2005 1:15 PM
I wonder if it occurred on the big curve by Duffy St where the runaway in the late 80s derailed. [:o)][:p]

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Posted by ChuckCobleigh on Tuesday, April 5, 2005 4:48 PM
The Trains news wire says Slover Siding, which I take to be north out of West Colton, putting it probably now on the west end of Berdoo. There is a picture of the siding on a great page I found Googling "Slover Siding" with some nifty SP shots relative to Cajon Pass.

http://www.trainweb.org/chris/Cajon.html

What a pleasant diversion that surfing turned up.

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Posted by chad thomas on Tuesday, April 5, 2005 5:33 PM
Slover is right out of W Colton just past the wye that diverges from the loop (east of pepper st overpass). In other words its just north of the I-10 bridge.
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Posted by spbed on Wednesday, April 6, 2005 7:45 AM
Pretty good stuff. Far better then derailment pix for sure! I agree that it was worth the surf also. [:o)][:I]

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Posted by spbed on Wednesday, April 6, 2005 7:46 AM
Thank U [:p][:)]


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Posted by chad thomas on Wednesday, April 6, 2005 9:35 AM
Any pix of the derailment ?
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Posted by spbed on Wednesday, April 6, 2005 9:58 AM
Here is the link to the local newspaper but no pix.

http://www.sbsun.com/Stories/0,1413,208~12588~2800959,00.html

[:p][:D][:o)]

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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, April 8, 2005 12:25 PM
[8D] great pic's of UP CENNTENNIAL DD40X 6913 this loco was sitting in Dallas texas RR museum[8D]
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Posted by MP57313 on Friday, April 8, 2005 3:04 PM
My local paper (Daily Breeze) ran a photo the other day but I could not locate it. It showed the cars scattered in a zig-zag pattern but they remained on the right-of-way.
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