Amtrak Derailment in Mississippi

[Big_Boy_4005]

Thanks Antonio, I try.

As we approach the one week mark following this accident, we seem to be running out of things to say. It's a slow news day, which is fine with me.[zzz][zzz][swg]

[Anonymous]

Some answers to some of the questions. Most of the track on the yazoo district is in fact welded. The majority of that line was double track main until a few years ago when IC took up one track to make it single main. As it was stated earlier, there have been four or five derailments in this same area. With that in mind, the rails may have been replaced with jointed. The one locomotive did in fact stay upright, but the right rail rolled out all the way to the front of the train. Will keep you informed with what I hear, since it is a local event.

[Big_Boy_4005]

Thanks Keith, I guess this makes you our man on the ground for this one. Very nice calm reporting. I'm as curious as anyone as to the cause of this one. I would think that the derailment history for that strech of track would be high on the investigators list of things to look at. It may not be so much the history, but the cobbled together rails and the previous causes.

I looked at the photos on this website, and I'm no expert, but they look like a mess. I thought that the most interesting ones were near the top.

http://www.railnews1.com/CNO.html

The only problem with all these pictures is that they are detail shots taken out of context.