MIAMI — Four people were injured Saturday evening when two CSX freight trains collided near Miami International Airport, WPLG-TV reports.
The accident was reported about 7 p.m. near the area of Northwest 15th Street and South Perimeter roads, with Miami-Dade Fire Rescue dispatching more than 25 units, including a hazardous materials team. The four people were hospitalized with what were described as minor injuries. Locomotives derailed, resulting in a fuel spill.
While WPLG reports the four people included two crew members, WSVN-TV reports four crew members were injured, and that the collision involved two rock trains.
When last there. I believe that signal you see at one point was just a fixed signal leading to the TriRail track. It was not an automatic block signal but a fixed always yellow signal as reminder auto matic or controlled signal ahead.
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So north bound trains approach next signal being ready to stop.
It may be signal function is changed or will be signal.
You need to observe how many lights on signal mast and if any are turned away then report back.
The track was an unsignaled single track from Tri Tail to the FEC interchange yard.
The fixed signal to which you refer Is called a “Distant” signal. If I’m right, it should have a circular plate below the yellow, always lit signal light, that has a “D” for “Distant” painted on it.
Did the yellow signal have a semaphore blade?
Were these trains under PTC control? I guess not. If not, should they have been?
Head on or from the rear?
Roger Thomas
How? Any one viewing the trackage which is very visible along the southern border of the airport with an adjacent public road can see several block signals. Someone must have been asleep or ‘busy’.