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Quothe Edblysard: "And while you are at it, please quote your source for the 20 mile drag on a derailment, photos, reference source, factual evidence...you know, stuff like that. Or was that exaggeration too, in an attempt to make your statement seem more valid? Your assumption or expectation that we have to accept anything you chose to write simply because you wrote it is wrong, you lack any of the credentials, or are too afraid or embarrassed by any you could produce, to validate any of your statements, be it about railroads or economics." Oh ye of little faith....  <A href="http://www.zwire.com/site/printerFriendly.cfm?brd=1142&dept_id=567520&newsid=16903064">http://www.zwire.com/site/printerFriendly.cfm?brd=1142&dept_id=567520&newsid=16903064</A> "UPDATE: Single-car derailment created track damage" Quote of note:  "If readers noticed an unusual amount of activity on the railroad tracks through town on Saturday, that's because BNSF crews were called to repair nearly 30 miles of rails after a coal train came through the area at 11:45 p.m. with a single car derailed.  The damage extended from mile marker 240, near Rome, to mile marker 214 near Middletown." [(-D][(-D][(-D] Ed, are you getting tired yet from having to eat crow at every meal? Hmmmm, 30 miles of track damage from a single car derailment!  I guess I was wrong to assume that a 20 mile drag was the average length of such incidents.  The question then is if a rear crew member would have been able to spot the anomaly before the car was dragged 30 miles. Given that this was a unit train, any oddity in the fluidity of the consist would have been easier to spot than if it had been a mixed freight. It will be interesting to follow-up on this particular incident.  Wonder what the total damage will be?  Will it be more than the cost of having a rear end crew member?
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