Another BNSF wreck video

[i995impalass]

this might have been posted before but....

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I would like to know who keeps getting these incab BNSF wrecks

[SteveTJ]

Ouch! Hopefully the crew wasn't hurt.

[RailCanon]

Here's an explanation of this particular wreck. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivRu-1AU ... re=related

[J T]

Did they REALLY need to have a good 2:30 of nothing included at the beginning of this video? The last BNSF head on crash video was the same way. I wish these people would learn to edit.

Anyway...WOW to that crash.

Here's an explanation of this particular wreck. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivRu-1AU ... re=related

Gregg, can you explain why at :20 of that video it says that being held up by the hotbox detector saved their lives? They still crashed...so what is the person who made that video implying, that the crash would have been worse? How so?

[odave]

There was a comment from the author that said that if the train were not held up, they'd be going faster (49mph) instead of 36mph

[J T]

There was a comment from the author that said that if the train were not held up, they'd be going faster (49mph) instead of 36mph

Thanks, I missed that. But who knows...the could have been injured less at 13mph faster. You never know.

[i995impalass]

To me it looks like the derail was back on, why the switch wasent lined back for the main is beyond me, but that wreck from what I am told and the one on the NS that killed someone due to a tanker derailing is why the FRA has come out with the the new rule that will hold crews responsable for the alignment of switches

[J T]

Chris, as far as crews being held responsible, if a wreck DOES occur and someone is killed, does the person (or persons) who were responsible for a switch being misaligned face manslaughter charges? That could get really ugly.

[i995impalass]

I belive they can be, I also know if a proper air test isent done and a train hits a car at a crossing and the people get hurt or killed the person that did the air test can be held responsable

[TrainNut85]

I think someone forgot to close the switch to the siding. My guess, it had to have been the last crew that worked that siding. I hope nobody was hurt, cuz that accident looked serious from when the train hit the hopper car.

[BNSF 1088]

Thank god i don't work DTC where i am at that is such a pain in the butt where i work it is TWC ABS.