Triple Crown derails again

[Trainman2223]

For the third time, and the second time in less than a year, a Triple Crown combination truck-train has derailed on the curve in the tracks north of Venice Road.


http://www.sanduskyregister.com/article ... 299079.txt

Has NS bothered to look into this? It seems from the article at least one of the derails was a short cut on maintenance "In October 2007, a similar incident involved 17 Triple Crown trailers, carrying toilet paper and paper towels. That was eventually traced to a too-short air line connector between two cars; the line came loose as the cars moved around the curve."

[conrailfan]

wow, the secon derailment today.

[Shorthaul]

Since the roadrailers in question were filled with paper goods (basically empty), it seems like there might be a stringlining problem with these extremely light roadrailers. Maybe NS should consider lowering speed for roadrailers around certain curves where stringlining forces are higher.

[esprrfan]

It's 10mph around there now