That's not a pretty sight.
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I don't think 9 will go back, unless the frame isn't bent it's done for.
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| Posted by FSWood on June 8, 2020 | |
That's a sad thing about farm crossings and the laws of physics about rate, time, and distance; when a train is doing around 75 mph as Billings Gazette reported in this case, in order to have enough time to stop at crossing, look, apply power to drive across the crossing, you need to do that only when the train is at least 5 to 10 miles away, because train is covering 6600 feet every minute and a statute mile is 5280 feet. For our metric friends I'll note that 75mph is about 120kph, or 2km per minute.
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These units have a monocoque carbody rather than a standard underframe. The lack of wrinkles along the side skin suggests the damage is confined to the front of the locomotive. In the past such damage could have been economically repaired but the pending delivery of new Siemens locomotives suggests this unit will not be restored to service.
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| Posted by Carl on August 19, 2020 | |
As long as Freight and Passenger trains have to share the same tracks, accidents like this will always continue to happen and no amount of PTC is going to end it, we here in the US need to stop using the term HSR, AMTK needs to quit pretending as such, with exception of the Northeast Corridor (NEC) Long Distance trains have to use Freight tracks and that will always be the biggest problem in our passenger rail system, other countries like Japan show in order to have true HSR you have to have dedicated tracks, until then!!!!
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| Posted by FSWood on August 19, 2020 | |
The thing about creating new High Speed Rail tracks is, whose homes, businesses, farms, do you seize and destroy in order to lay the tracks and give those tracks access to city centers: and who is it who decides what people's things to seize and destroy: and what gives that group of people the right to destroy other people's stuff?
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| Posted by Carl on January 8, 2021 | |
To FSWWood, the point I was making is that we can't have dedicated LD HSR (and AMTRAK doesn't want it) because of the fact you brought out, and why AMTRAK needs to stop whining about freight railroads hurting their performance, because AMTRAK uses the railroads tracks is why they need to base their operations to the freights, slow orders, track maintenance and inspection(and yes derailments) is part of life, AMTRAK doesn't have the right to demand anything.
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