Major Derailment on Sandpatch

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CShaveRR

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Posted by CShaveRR on Monday, February 8, 2010 8:55 AM

Some photographs I saw from Cumberland suggest that they got quite a bit of snow in the area. I suspect that the weather was somehow a contributing factor.

I haven't seen photographs of the actual wreck yet. That's another suggestion that the weather's none too good up there.

Today is at least two days after the wreck--restoration of the line ought to be well on the way, if it isn't already open.

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BT CPSO 266

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Posted by BT CPSO 266 on Sunday, February 7, 2010 10:05 PM

I did here there was a derailment, but I thought it was miner. The Capitol Limited was forced to stop on the line Friday, because of down trees.

Midland524

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Posted by Midland524 on Sunday, February 7, 2010 10:00 PM

1.Hopefully everyone was awake. 2.Hopefully nobody was texting their girlfriend.

Murphy Siding

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Posted by Murphy Siding on Sunday, February 7, 2010 9:37 PM

Did that area see heavy snowfall recently, like Washington D.C. (and all the rest of us) ?

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tree68

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Posted by tree68 on Sunday, February 7, 2010 8:48 PM

Any word on an official cause? And how's the clean-up coming along?

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Kootenay Central

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Posted by Kootenay Central on Sunday, February 7, 2010 12:57 PM

Modelcar

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Posted by Modelcar on Sunday, February 7, 2010 8:25 AM

Boy, that sounds like real trouble for CSX.....Wonder if it was weather related....{frozen brake lines, limbs down on track or something brought on by the extreme weather that included that area too.

That will take some time and expense to clear that amount of derailed cars....That's rugged country in that area.

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Major Derailment on Sandpatch

Posted by beaulieu on Saturday, February 6, 2010 11:59 PM

CSX had a major derailment, possibly the result of a runaway, very early Saturday morning or very late Friday night. EB coal train U883-03 derailed two locomotives and 113 of 131 cars between MP201 and MP203. This is around the Glencoe Rd. crossing. Some of the cars are in Wills Creek. The crew is shaken up, but ok. Both tracks are blocked and Sandpatch is expected to be closed for at least 48hrs.