CHICO, Texas — Two crew members were injured Sunday evening when a Union Pacific train struck another train parked on a siding north of Fort Worth, WFAA-TV reports.
The collision occurred about 7 p.m. in Chico, about 45 miles north of Fort Worth on UP’s Duncan Subdivision, and involved a southbound train. Three locomotives and 15 grain cars derailed. KTVT reports that one of the injured crew members was airlifted to a hospital while the other was transported by ambulance. The parked train was unoccupied.
The cause is under investigation.
“Better stay off the Tollway, Charles.”
And avoid the Ryan, the Kennedy, and the Edens while you’re at it.
Don’t forget US-41, The Skyway, North Av in Franklyn Park, Mannheim Rd, and I’m trying to remember all the city streets in Chicago I’ve traveled. Oh yes Chinatown and near all the chicken wholesalers, I’m trying to remember the plastic pellet trans load facility.
Chicago is full of places trucks go that weren’t designed for 70′ long trucks with53′ trailers. At least Chicago doesn’t have LCV’s on the city streets like Salt Lake City.
Lake Cook Road is okay if you’re on Lake Cook Road. Just don’t try turning onto it or off from it. You can love your huge condo in Deerfield, as long as you’re happy to stay at home and not try to drive somewhere else.
Mannheim Road connects to railfanning at LaGrange BNSF. The good news is, it’s wide enough for two lanes, one in each direction. Unfortunately there are four lanes.
Depends on what rules were governing that siding. Or if PTC was on this line was it working on the lead locomotive? Signals? Did the dispatcher inform the crew there was a train in the siding? Dispatchers I’ve worked with always informed a crew if they were going into a siding if it was occupied. And if they weren’t sure they would ask for confirmation from other trains if the siding was clear. Was the crew paying attention? Inward facing cameras? PTC will not prevent collisions. It can only protect against speed, enforce work authorities, and stop signal violations.
Jay, now could someone in North Platte drop the ball? The Harriman Dispatch Center is in Omaha
That would be a long fumble, wouldn’t it? 🙂
Well so much for PTC. I thought it was going to stop head on an rear end train wrecks.
Is this a situation where the back-end of a train was not properly pulled into a siding? If so, then PTC would not have helped. Now, if on the other hand, it was on a single track line, then your question is valid. Perhaps it was in dark territory? or somebody in North Platte dropped the ball?
I saw a YouTube video shot from a drone and the siding is separated from what looks like the main by a culvert or line of trees, I forget. There are two tracks on the main ROW and there are two turnouts for a wye or branch line. The siding where the derailment occurred is separated from the turnouts.
Trains, your readers do not understand the Transportation of Dangerous Goods and the various regulations involved. Further, your readers do not understand soil and groundwater remediation activities. The uneducated media has been very problematic for the rail industry. Explain why DOT 111 tank cars fail, why the specs were upgraded, then why the regs where eased.
Please step up and explain to the uneducated that the rail industry has been upgraded since the “civil war”. Trains is a “go to” publication for media, so educate the uneducated. Take a 8 hour Hazwoper course and educate your readers. It is a sad day when you do not learn something.
My thoughts are based on years of experience transporting goods, as a driver, and many years of work in air cargo, having to explain why additional documentation was needed to move cargo.
Lithium Ion batteries being an experience I would not like to repeat.
Gee Terry, nothing like being an educated (insert your word here.) I do not subscribe to your “uneducated” tag painted as you have with such a broad brush. Not everyone has the funds or the time to take a Hazwoper course. As a former Procurement and Logistics Manager, I have taken such a course twice, in addition to the most recent USDOT Transportation of Dangerous Goods symposium.
I am not sure the average Train reader would benefit from a Hazwoper course although they might get a better picture of the kind and handling methods of hazardous goods in transportation today. I would suggest a better route for most people may be going to their local municipal, county or state emergency management director who will have all the necessary information without the preponderance of professional jargon that sometimes confuses and obfuscates the intended educational aspect. It may also provide better information on the type of Haz-Mat goods commonly on the Road, Rails and in the Air in their various locals.
While the intent of your statement is to say we all need more education, the fact is , all of us are uneducated, especially in the media as many in that field are often not trained in the events they cover. We all need to be more dedicated to getting the facts and asking the “dumb question” when we don’t know the answer…
One truck burning usually doesn’t make as quite the compelling video as a dozen tank cars.
It depends on where it burns and how much other news is out there. Some things get ignored because people are creating news. Like a former resident of Washington DC.
Hey, railroads, know this: you’re under a microscope. People are watching. The news media, which in the past didn’t cover rail incidents, now does.
Pretty soon convoys of toxic chemicals will be headed down the Interstate Highways. Buy stock in the companies that manufacture tanker trucks.
If that happens, the result will be far more hazmat incidents. The NTSB stats show that more than 90% of all hazmat incidents occur on the highway. Fewer than 2% occur on the railroads.
Yes, Thomas. I’ll be driving in the middle lane of the I-294 Illinois Tollway with three trucks to my right and three trucks to my left, three behind me, and three in front of me, each carrying the same chemicals that went to ground on Norfolk Southern. One broken axle or seized-up wheel bearing on one of the trucks, both Cook County and DuPage County will become Chernobyl.
Better stay off the Tollway, Charles.
Don’t drive in the middle lane…
Charles if you don’t like the way truck drivers drive stay off the sidewalk.😁
I think you got yur’self a CONVOY! rip C J McCall…