Derailment at Fonda, NY 06/27/13
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- Опубликовано: 9 фев 2025
- An unfortunate incident for CSXT this morning at mp188 of the Mohawk Subdivision. Here is some video and my attempt at live narration.
Although described in the video, it appears a westbound train (Q641) was crossing over to track 2 while an eastbound (Q364) was coming on track 1. For whatever reason, the eastbound continued to the point of impact with the westbound. Fog/visibility may have been an issue.
Q641 is the train with the grey trash cars, and Q364 is a short mixed freight. I was railfanning for 4 hours, and saw 2 trains that day, this would explained it.
The eastbound engines were on the ground on the north side of the scene. As route 5 was closed to the general public, I could not. The engines can be seen in the video behind the freight cars. Later in the day I went back and the engines were more visible as they had already moved some of the freight cars. I did not post a video of that.
and I mean twenty cars back from where the units wer in the ditch, not there original local, as we wer riding the rear third
The accident actually had CSX use a detour that moved the trains through Norfolk Southern's Pittsburgh Line. It would be strange to see a CSX freight at the Horseshoe Curve huh?
Wow! That is definitly something to see! Great video!
Awesome footage!
A career-ender for sure!
You try it next time. I could have got home, and narrated, and redo it if I said Umm, and I would've posted the video in 3 or 4 days. I was trying to get something posted asap.
Trains mag reported it to be a sinkhole and the the other train collided with the stopped train tearing up track and Amtrak canceling trains.
Couldnt you get video of the eastbound engines?
me and my girl were on the eastbound train towards the rear about twenty cars back from the units in an empty fibrillation. I thought we'd blown a brakeline and went into emergency until the choppers circled. then I thought we'd hit a car at a crossing until I looked over the gon and the
When was this. The 27th 26th 25th etc?
The derailment occurred on the morning of June 27th, 2013.
Ok thank you.
If the other train (the eastbound) collided with the "stopped" train it should have had a signal telling it to stop. The Q641 was not stopped and Q364 hit it as Q641 was crossing over from track 1 to track 2. This "sinkhole" theory is not strong in my opinion and I wish I could stop hearing it! ;-)
units wer in the ditch. we deboarded and walked up to the units for some close up pics. the police wer in shock and yelled at us to turn back and a county sherrif came scooting down the tracks and, amazed that we were on the train and unhurt, gave us a ride to the gas station at the crossing back in Fonda. msg me for the pics I took
Q641 was going 1 to 2 westbound and Q364 ran the red block at CP-188 and hit the Q641 at 34mph. There were 4 engines on Q364, an SD70MAC leading 7732, 5394 and another Gevo. The latest that I have heard is 364's crew fell asleep, they recieved only minor injuries and at this time will not be getting their jobs back. A good source of photos is Governor Cuomo's flickr page.
Think of how this derailment is disrupting the entire northeast's overall train traffic because it's blocking those tracks...
Now think of how much less it would be impacted if we had the second track between Albany and Schenectady...
I know it's not directly in the area of the derailment, but it would certainly help keep a little bit of the flow of train traffic moving better than the way we have it now, where one bottleneck creates tons of other bottlenecks everywhere else.
Good job, Buckaroo!
Umm, ok video umm but there was umm a lot of umm, umm's. Umm ya know???
empty gondola, stupid auto text.