NORTH PLATTE, Neb. A broken axle was the cause of last weeks derailment involving two trains near Lake McConaughy, Union Pacific Railroad officials said Monday, according to the Omaha World-Herald.
The derailment occurred Thursday night about 12 miles north of Ogallala.
According to U.P. spokesman Mark Davis, 35 of the 123 cars from a loaded coal train derailed. The train was headed from Wyoming to Kansas. A second train headed back to Wyoming on an adjacent track struck some of the derailed equipment.
Davis said that caused the wheels on the two lead locomotives of the second train to derail. However, those locomotives remained upright and none of the empty coal cars on the second train derailed.
On Monday, Davis said it had been determined that a broken axle in the area of the wheel bearing on one of the railcars was the cause of the accident. No one was injured.
(This item appeared Jan. 19, 2010, in the World-Herald.)
Unintended consequences. Both of the larger Class-I outfits petitioned very strongly ta reestablish rules concerning car inspection intervals.
What used to be a 1000 mile mandatory car inspection, has been relegated to the days of the Model "T" Ford. Inspections of freight cars are done only when necessary, or at 1500 miles have been accrued.
Yep. BNsf, and UP have the deep pockets needed to push this one past the FRA.
Another 'unintended' consequence'? Fewer car inspectors needed!
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