Maryland CSX derailment

[kbkchooch]

Just after midnight this morning a CSX coal train derailed in downtown Ellicott City MD, some cars falling 20 feet to the street below. Unfortunately, 2 19 year old girls were on the bridge and sadly lost their lives.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/story/2012-08-21/train-derailment-maryland/57184696/1

The location is but a 40 minute ride from my house, and I have walked beneath this bridge (with trains on it) several times,,never thinking about what could happen!

Too sad.

More pics here....
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local...2-11e1-9ddc-340d5efb1e9c_gallery.html#photo=1

 

[bnsf971]

That's very bad. Was the bridge also for cars and trucks?

 

[IronBeltKen]

The bridge was [luckily] for trains only.

I'm concerned about the museum, though; it is right there in the middle of all this mess. Including that restored I-5 caboose.


UPDATE: According to posters on the B&O Yahoo group message board, the caboose and the museum buildings were spared from any serious damage.

 

[bnsf971]

So the girls, from news accounts, were on the bridge, where they had no business?
If so, it is a tragedy that was completely avoidable. I thought they were in a car or walking on the sidewalk under the bridge.

 

[Y3a]

I work across the street from the CSX tracks going through DC. This mornings live newscast from the scene showed locomotive 267, which goes by about 2-3 times a week. Its probably running rerailed hoppers back to the yard for repairs and inspection.