Metra's first fatal Derailment

[Anonymous]

On Saturday a metra train derailed at 8:36 by the Dan Ryan. It left 80 people injured, 12 severly injured and 2 dead. The engineer was formerly working for yards in CSX, and has only been working for the Rock Island for 45

Heres a link for more


.http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-0509180285sep18,1,6634974.story?page=2&coll=chi-news-hed

[railfan619]

Yeah I just read that all of the crew from the enginer to the conductor and the signal man and everyone that was working yesterday had to go for drug testing which is standard for the Metra corp. Also the NTSB is there and they have recoverd the BLACK BOX RECORDERS from the cars and from the LOCO to detremin what the speed of the train was at the time of the derailment one person said it was a 10 MPH speed limit at the. Cross over and another person said it was a 15 MPH speed limit at the cross over but we wont know until the investigation is complete.

[Anonymous]

There's a discussion of this going on at this same forum, topic: "Metra Derailment 9/17/05."

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al

[Anonymous]

I know the person who started that topic is a poser! That always happens with us younger ones, we start a big topic 2 people reply, then some older starts the same topic with other words and it gets 40 or 50 replys. Always happens



Colin

[Anonymous]

No, Wheez, it has to with the FACT that LC started his post a day earlier than yours.[2c][oX)]

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by n_stephenson

No, Wheez, it has to with the FACT that LC started his post a day earlier than yours.[2c][oX)]

n_stephenson -

Thanks. Tough to defend oneself on the forums from the younger crowd who have no responsibilities when one is at work on the rails. Haven't had the laptop with me lately since I dropped it a ways back. Thinking of getting a military model that a guy I know refurbs. Supposedly you could drop it from a helicopter and it'll still run.

Gotta go take a weez...lol...

LC

P.S. How is the DS thing goin?

[Anonymous]

LC,

Dispatching is going great. I have about another month of posting, then I'll be marked up on the St. Louis Line. Feel free to email me if you have an further ?'s.