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Wilson Creek Wa. is like the moon. In the middle of the
nowhere landscapes of Eastern Washington. I visited
there once...lasted about 7 minutes. There is no reason
in world to visit there. Just happens to be part of the
Chicago-Seattle BNSF mainline though.

http://www.khq.com/Global/story.asp?S=12095618

Some pix from a RailroadForums.com photographer that
sidestepped the security around the derailment scene
from a grain elevator.

Supposedly the cause of the derailment was a car that had
derailed somewhere around Odessa Wa. skidded the ties
for miles until it met a switch at Wilson Creek and shit happened.


-- Edited by The Krink on Sunday 7th of March 2010 03:29:07 AM

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BNSF crews removing derailed train cars in E Washington

(The Associated Press circulated the following on March 7, 2010.)

WILSON CREEK, Wash. Burlington Northern Santa Fe workers plan to have the railroad's mainline track reopened Sunday evening after 24 cars from a train carrying corn derailed in Eastern Washington.

No one was hurt when the 110-car train traveling from Florence, Minn., to Seattle derailed Saturday morning near Wilson Creek, about 18 miles north of Moses Lake. However, it blocked the single track, used by about 20 freight and Amtrak trains daily.

Railroad spokesman Gus Melonas says crews are working on the damaged track and expect to have it open by 5 p.m. He says one of the derailed cars has been put back on the track and the rest pushed aside to be scrapped. The spilled corn is being taken to a nearby grain elevator.

Monday, March 08, 2010



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Take a look here...  http://www.railroadforums.com/forum/showthread.php?t=31919

Last page, 12 I think, shows the culprit.

-- Edited by Herder on Thursday 11th of March 2010 06:07:41 PM

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^^^^^^^^^
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What's peaked my curisoity is this would be the second derailment with a loaded grainer in the NWE as a result of of a broken wheel. Hmmm.....

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Oooh, I'm figuring things out.   Here's the rest of that wheelset.:



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Run 'em till they break! Then fix 'em! Preventive maintenance... Periodic inspections? Why bother... The FRA doesn't care!

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Broken wheels are sort of hard to predict...aren't they?

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Snippy predicts that there will be another one.

That's why they call them car knockers.

Haven't seen one do it in, like, forever, man.

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Snippy wrote:

Snippy predicts that there will be another one.

That's why they call them car knockers.

Haven't seen one do it in, like, forever, man.


Wasn't that a bit that Johnny Carson used to do?  Carknock the Magnificent?

 



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That bit hasn't aged to well. Scanned You Tube for a good
example but it's too fucking stupid for me to post.

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The AAR website might have a few examples of defective wheels, and/or wheel photos with obvious defects which should condemn that particular wheel from service, until it's repaired/replaced. Check AAR's website for 'wheel defects'!

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Nah... Why condem it? Just run er' till it fails. BNSF's prefers reactionary work, not preventive work.

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