Amtrak train derails

[MrEd]

Five cars on an Amtrak train derailed Sunday night near Granite City.

Police said there are injuries, and News 4's Ray Preston is reporting that most of those injuries are minor. The train cars derailed near Niedringhaus Ave and Benton.

Busses are being brought in to shuttle passengers.

News 4 will be following this story as it develops.

http://www.kmov.com/news/local/Cars-on-amt...y-95231139.html

 

[Railroad Bill]

Since the coaches seem to be single level, it must have been a Lincoln Service train? Not a good day for Amtrak. :unsure:

 

[PRR 60]

Lincoln Service, Train 306. No significant injuries.

St Louis Post Dispatch

 

[sunchaser]

I'm glad everyone is okay. Does that mean another diner is now out of commission?

 

[amtrakwolverine]

look at the damage to the track wonder what caused the derailment.

 

[Green Maned Lion]

I'm glad everyone is okay. Does that mean another diner is now out of commission?

I see a P42, 4 Horizon coaches, and an Amfleet I Club-Dinette. Amtrak has so many Amfleet I food service cars (88 of them currently in service, over 30 still in storage!), they are converting 20 of them to coach cars. No diner present on that poor train. Also, while that Amfleet will probably need to go in for a major inspection, I don't think its heavily damaged.

Actually, I'd say Amfleet food service cars are probably the only thing that Amtrak doesn't have a shortage of.

 

[sunchaser]

I'm glad everyone is okay. Does that mean another diner is now out of commission?

I see a P42, 4 Horizon coaches, and an Amfleet I Club-Dinette. Amtrak has so many Amfleet I food service cars (88 of them currently in service, over 30 still in storage!), they are converting 20 of them to coach cars. No diner present on that poor train. Also, while that Amfleet will probably need to go in for a major inspection, I don't think its heavily damaged.

Actually, I'd say Amfleet food service cars are probably the only thing that Amtrak doesn't have a shortage of.

My mistake-the article called it a diner instead of Club-Dinette. I did not know there was such an animal!

 

[lyke99]

I was amused by the reporter who talked twice about the need to repair "railroad tiles." The video also showed a couple of freight engines and claimed they'd been the power for the train. As a kid, clueless reporters bugged me. Now I find their ignorance funny more often than not.

Glad to hear their were no fatalities.

 

[MrEd]

Rail owners have replaced and opened the 500 feet of track where an Amtrak train derailed Sunday and injured five passengers.

An investigation into the cause of the derailment is ongoing, said Mark Davis, a spokesman for Union Pacific, which jointly owns the tracks with the Kansas City Southern railroad company.

Davis said investigators look into four causes of derailments -- human, train track, mechanical, which includes the engine and railcars, and other, which includes weather.

Read more: http://www.bnd.com/2010/06/01/1276988/site...l#ixzz0pbMeHnDm