MERCER, Mo. — No injuries were reported in the derailment of 70 cars of a Union Pacific train in north-central Missouri, near the Iowa border, on Thursday.
The derailment occurred about 7:30 a.m. Union Pacific spokeswoman Kristen South told the Kansas City Star that no hazardous materials were involved. A video on the Star website appears to show cars of frac sand were involved. The train was en route from Butler, Wis., to Fort Worth, Texas, the Associated Press reports.
Could be. Another feature of this so-called PSR was a drastic reduction in routine maintenance and inspections budgets and personnel the early years of EHH at CN. Capital spendings were increased during the following years – but this doesn’t affect the operating ratio, routine maintenance budgets do.
Aside from the previous comments, the question that should be asked is how frequent is wagon maitainance and inspections. Safety before profit.
This derailment is not a result of PSR as it was a unit train.. Broken axle??
Mr Ray, all PSR does to train wrecks is make them bigger.
It is an impressive amount of accordion effect video visible on the Star’s website. Shows how you can convert a 2380′ long, 10′ wide train into and 700′ long, 34′ wide train.
Not often you hear of 70 car derailments. That had to be wild & noisy. Wonder if there is a lake nearby. They could make a nice sandy beach. 🙂
One feature of PSR is much longer trains. I wonder how that affects the chances of derailments.
Looking at the drone footage, it appears there was a UP MoW crew clearing trees back at the site of the derail. I wonder if one of the end loaders ran over the rails or nicked a tie which pulled a spike(s) loose.