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8 Oct 2011 #1 Turbostar Member Joined 15 Aug 2006 Messages 1,039 Location Plymouth, Devon http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-15226940
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8 Oct 2011 #2 bocaj Member Joined 23 Aug 2011 Messages 79 Location Leeds That looks bad. I hope no one has been hurt.
8 Oct 2011 #3 starrymarkb Established Member Joined 4 Aug 2009 Messages 5,985 Location Exeter No reported injuries
8 Oct 2011 #4 E eMeS Member Joined 12 Jun 2011 Messages 954 Location Milton Keynes, UK From the BBC's video it looks as though the brakes failed, and wagons simply kept rolling...
8 Oct 2011 #5 G GB Established Member Joined 16 Nov 2008 Messages 6,457 Location Somewhere Not sure how you can possibly come to that conclusion based on a 30 second video clip.
8 Oct 2011 #6 Schnellzug Established Member Joined 22 Aug 2011 Messages 2,926 Location Evercreech Junction Who would that be? UP?
9 Oct 2011 #7 Yank 119 Member Joined 29 Jul 2008 Messages 97 Location Florence, South Carolina, USA Schnellzug said: Who would that be? UP? Click to expand... Tiskilwa is on the Iowa Interstate Railroad, a class II regional railroad.
Schnellzug said: Who would that be? UP? Click to expand... Tiskilwa is on the Iowa Interstate Railroad, a class II regional railroad.
9 Oct 2011 #8 33056 Established Member Joined 12 Nov 2007 Messages 2,416 Location On a train somewhere in Europe Not the first time that* sort of accident has happened in the US * train carrying dangerous goods becoming derailed and causing evacuation of residents, regardless of initial cause of incident.
Not the first time that* sort of accident has happened in the US * train carrying dangerous goods becoming derailed and causing evacuation of residents, regardless of initial cause of incident.
10 Oct 2011 #9 W WatcherZero Established Member Joined 25 Feb 2010 Messages 10,272 Two days later they let the 800 townsfolk return with the warning that since the train was still smouldering they may reissue the evacuation order...
Two days later they let the 800 townsfolk return with the warning that since the train was still smouldering they may reissue the evacuation order...
21 Oct 2011 #10 stanley T Member Joined 28 Jun 2011 Messages 146 Not as spectacular as this a year ago in Poland -explosion caught on camera.
21 Oct 2011 #11 Old Timer Established Member Joined 24 Aug 2009 Messages 3,703 Location On a plane somewhere at 35,000 It was a Rock Island to Chicago train operated by the Iowa Interstate Railroad.