COSTONIA, Ohio — Fifteen cars of a Norfolk Southern train carrying trash derailed Sunday morning, Nov. 6, in Jefferson County, Ohio, WTOV-TV reports, sending some containers of refuse into the Ohio River.
The derailment was reported to authorities about 7 a.m., Rob Herrington, deputy director of the Jefferson County Emergency Management Agency, told WKBN-TV that no injuries had been reported. He said booms had been deployed in the river to contain floating debris. R.J. Corman Railroad Services was on scene performing cleanup work, he said.
The cause of the derailment is under investigation.
The accident site, between Stuebenville and Toronto, Ohio, is about 30 miles north of Wheeling, W.Va.
Maybe it’s time for trains to do a factual story on derailment frequency over the years using several different criteria such as; frequency per ton mile, frequency per actual miles, frequency per car weight frequency per profit level, cost per derailment etc.
I would not count number of derailments by train numbers. It would be better IMO for number of car miles per derailments. Also for the separately number of loco miles for locomotives involved in derailments.
The trash trains the BNSF and UP run in the Seattle area are unit trains not mixed with any other commodity and they can be quite long here. Once in a great while I have seen a few empties in a manifest train heading to Seattle area, but that is rare.
Another derailment. Was the trash in the middle of a 15,000′ freight? Track curvature? Stringlining? Bad wheel not caught at an inspection? Excess buff and draft forces?
Significant derailments are occurring with greater frequency. It’s Monday. So I must be a quarterback. Right? These are valid questions that don’t seem to be asked.
I think the trash train only carries trash cars and is rather short compared to other trains if I’m not mistaken. And believe me, I could be mistaken. At least that’s what my wife says all the time. LOL!! But really it’s more like a long local than one of those 12,000 foot behemoths. Not to take away from your quarterbacking! LOL!!
Chris, it’s called the trash train for a reason…that’s all it carries. As for your other questions, valid yes, but no more frequently than before…the only difference is that main stream media is covering them more than before, otherwise statistics say the rate of derailments hasn’t changed much.