Trains anyone?

[KatDiesel]

A recent mishap on the UP. Those locomotives are pretty new as well. also have pictures of the BNSF Headon collision in TX where an engineer was killed. Also this past week a runaway carload of spikes traveling 80mph or better killed a BNSF track worker in Colorado.



Was a rough week. While the train crews may not be in the same catagory as the police/fireman are but they still deserve apprciation because the trains to help with the economy with just the sheer amount of freight we move not to mention jobs created. They do have dangerous jobs... ... ... .....



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[Whitmore]

Brings a new meaning to a train taking a dirt road

 

[Doc Tinker]

Trains sure make a mess when they do that, don't they? How do the railroads make money when they have so many accidents?



Doc

 

[KatDiesel]

Originally posted by Doc Tinker

Trains sure make a mess when they do that, don't they? How do the railroads make money when they have so many accidents?

Its big big money.



They can't keep all the profit, you got to have a big budget, but I think of the last three quarters we have made 200+million PROFIT thats after putting money back into the track budget, locomotive budget etc.

 

[Doc Tinker]

Makes me wonder why they don't put more into the track budget, to help keep people from getting hurt.



Doc

 

[Doubleclutch]

They really don't have that many accidents when you consider the amount of movements taking place day and night. Example- plane crashes. When one falls out of the sky, there's he2l to pay for all that dont fall out of the sky. Our usual "fix" for an "event" is more training or better communications. Cheaper than fixing the real problem- blame the operator. A big $ business has a lot of investors that want to see blood if their income is challanged. These locos will be fixed up but I sure feel for the operators that can't be. Greg

 

[KatDiesel]

Originally posted by Doc Tinker

Makes me wonder why they don't put more into the track budget, to help keep people from getting hurt.

Its no that simple Doc, I think we put about 1. 1 BILLION dollars into the track budget for this year. Equipment will fail, human error plays a part alot, rails break due to the temperture changes, and the tonnage moved over it.



We have a "derailment" budget... . meaning its impossible to get rid of them, so we jsut do the best we can to prevent them.



Its part of the railroad.

 

[KatDiesel]

Yesterday in Omaha.....

 

[Whitmore]

Kat, somewhere around 85 I was a n officer for the fire dept in Kemmerer Wyo and we responded to a head on from 2 sister trains near the Fossil Butte National Monument , there was a conductor in the east bound train that had a heart attack and died before the colission actually occured, anyhow his train ended up on its side and had dug a 10 foot ditch before it stopped, but we had to do extracation to get him out, we took the center strip out thats between the 2 windshields and made that into a doorway,

The other train personelle all jumped off before the colission,turns out that these 2 trains were conducted by a father a son, the dad didnt make it.



So which outfit seams to be the better BNSF or UP ???

 

[Jumbo Jet]

Another question - how many UP trains a day head east out of California?



Traveled I-40 a couple of weeks ago and I could swear there was a container train every five minutes heading east!

 

[nickleinonen]

train derailments suck. .



i don't know too much about the rail industry, but i do know that i have applied to work at 3 rail companies in ontario, and have been rejected by them all... bummer. . oh well, time to ship out some more applications and resume's. .

 

[Okie-Go]

Sure does a lot of damage when that stuff happens.