O.T. Trains

[Dogpatrol]

Question for those in the train world. Seems like we have had a lot of derailments lately or are we just hearing about them more?
I would think these should be very rare.

 

[patdog]

Just hearing about them more. They happen every day.

 

[DesotoCountyDawg]

Question for those in the train world. Seems like we have had a lot of derailments lately or are we just hearing about them more?
I would think these should be very rare.

Train derailments happen all the time it’s just getting more attention because of what happened in Ohio.

There’s a man here in Desoto County that has made millions on cleaning up train derailments and his crews are constantly going somewhere.

 

[BulldogBlitz]

Worked in a quarry that had train derails about 3 times a week. We had junky spurs though. Union pacific ran through the quarry....and I think they might have had one per quarter, nothing massive. It would mainly be mechanical failure of the switch or someone not paying attention to the position

 

[RocketDawg]

Heard on the news that there are about 1000 derailments per year in the US. So we're just hearing about them.

 

[thatsbaseball]

Train derailments happen all the time it’s just getting more attention because of what happened in Ohio.

There’s a man here in Desoto County that has made millions on cleaning up train derailments and his crews are constantly going somewhere.

Known Levy over 20 years...if that's who you're talking about. There another company in Rankin county that started in 2010 and had phenomenal growth also. It a huge and very profitable business.

 

[Trojanbulldog19]

I thought this was going to be about lsu football staffers

 

[Curby]

What possessed the Norfolk Southern folks to control explode and burn all those chemicals into the air over East Palestine, Ohio, killing wildlife and some domestic animals/pets (and PETA not saying a word about it). And the climate change brigade not having a fit about it?

Those good people in that area within a few hundred mile radius likely exposed to cancer-causing agents as well.

 

[DesotoCountyDawg]

Known Levy over 20 years...if that's who you're talking about. There another company in Rankin county that started in 2010 and had phenomenal growth also. It a huge and very profitable business.

Levy does it too along with construction. I was talking about Bruce Pruitt.

 

[The Peeper]

Question for those in the train world. Seems like we have had a lot of derailments lately or are we just hearing about them more?
I would think these should be very rare.

I read this morning there were 1,200 last year