Just reported in AP News
50-car train derailment causes big fire, evacuations in Ohio

Yeah, i just saw a news story about that crash.
Amazed there are no deaths so far. And it's going to be quite a while before that mess is cleaned up and traffic can use the line again.


I'm wondering if the chickens are coming home to roost.
With COVID so many companies were cutting costs as much a & as fast as they could, and general/preventative maintenance is always a target for that sort of cost cutting. Over the last few months there seems to have been an increase in the number of incidents occurring, particularly in the aviation industry.
Mothballed fleets coming back online with way less staff than in the past, something's got to give to make that possible.

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Grant
Darwin NT

US railroads have, over the years, had a pretty poor safety record, particularly on freight only routes.
They've been very slow in adopting some of the technologies that we take for granted in Europe, and will take the costs of this accident as another excuse to further delay their implementation.

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Bob Smith
Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society)
Somewhere in the (un)known Universe?

Just reported in AP News
50-car train derailment causes big fire, evacuations in Ohio

Update.

Explosion fears loom as Ohio train continues to burn days after derailment.

Just reported in AP News
50-car train derailment causes big fire, evacuations in Ohio

Update.

Explosion fears loom as Ohio train continues to burn days after derailment.

Finally after all this time.

Residents allowed to return after fiery Ohio train derailment.

Cheers.

I wouldn't be in a hurry to move back home. :-(

‘Definitely not safe’: Animals falling sick, dying near hellish Ohio train derailment site.

And more vinyl chloride needs to be released. :-O

Vinyl Chloride is a really unpleasant chemical. It gets into the body by inhalation, vapour absorption through the mucus membranes, sick contact, consumption of contaminated food and causes a whole raft of symptoms depending on the duration and nature of the contact - the range is from mild irritation to stomach upsets, to breathing problems, to death. In short, just don't go near the stuff.

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Bob Smith
Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society)
Somewhere in the (un)known Universe?

And it gets worse. :-(

3 more chemicals discovered in Ohio train derailment.

..The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency sent a letter to Norfolk Southern stating that ethylene glycol monobutyl ether, ethylhexyl acrylate and isobutylene were also in the rail cars that were derailed, breached and/or on fire....

Too much heat?

Freight train derails at Two Wells, north of Adelaide, with several carriages coming off track.

We've been waiting.

Iconic Zig Zag Railway to reopen in Blue Mountains after more than 10 years.

...All 11 kilometres of the track and the steam trains used for the service have been restored, with the co-op now only waiting on final accreditation from the National Rail Safety Authority.
The railway first opened in the 1860s and used for transporting passengers and cargo from Western NSW to Sydney, before becoming a tourist attraction in the 1970s.

It is now run by the Zig Zag Railway Co-op, a dedicated group of volunteers who have been working to restore the site, with the help of the NSW government, since its closure in 2012....

Cheers.

Another freight train comes off the rails. :-)

Nebraska coal train derailment sparks emergency operation.

Expect more details soon enough.

Now that could've been an expensive mistake.

Spain's rail head resigns over bungled train orders resulting in trains too wide for some tunnels.

Thankfully the mistake was spotted before production began, but it will result in a 2yr longer wait for delivery.

Cheers.

Juan Browne looks at the prelimanary NTSB report on the East Palestine freight train derailment

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5D2LA-Llyc

I don't think that the residents will be all that happy hearing this. :-(

‘Déjà vu’: A train derailment 40 years ago holds clues for East Palestine’s future.

Royal Scotsman stamp set, the last set of stamps issued as a Queen Elizabeth II set.


Can be obtained from https://shop.royalmail.com/special-stamp-issues/flying-scotsman

Royal Scotsman stamp set, the last set of stamps issued as a Queen Elizabeth II set...

Oooer...

I've been reliably prompted that there's some crossed lines on that one!...

Note:

Those stamps show the "Flying Scotsman", whereas a competitor "The Royal Scott" ran on the west coast mainline.

The Flying Scotsman ran on the east coast mainline. The "Flying" was so named due to the innovations of the day for adding a second coal tender, a deployable water scoop for replenishing the boiler water tanks, and a narrow corridor through the tenders so that the engine crew could be changed, all to enable keeping the train in non-stop furious flight!

Jago has much further detail to share:

Why is Flying Scotsman so famous?


Enjoy!
Martin

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It was a brain fade, allowed at my age.

But more important news.
Fiery Greece train collision kills 26, injures at least 85

TEMPE, Greece (AP) — A passenger train carrying hundreds of people collided with an oncoming freight train in a fiery wreck in northern Greece early Wednesday, killing 26 and injuring at least 85, officials said.

Multiple cars derailed and at least three burst into flames after the collision near Tempe, a small town next to a valley where major highway and rail tunnels are located, some 380 kilometers (235 miles) north of Athens.

Hospital officials in the nearby city of Larissa said at least 25 people had serious injuries.

A different perspective on Greek trains
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mz4PljSHNwU