Montrose Branch Derailment

[friscobob]

Yesterday a UP unit coal train dumped 16 cars
off the tracks near Hotchkiss, CO on the Somerset-Delta line. This line is used for coal train service from the mines around Somerset & PAonia. Some of the cars blocked Highway 92 for a time until they could be cleared. No reports of injuries or deaths, but by looking at the Page 1 photo in the local paper, the track's a mess. Looks like Hulcher's Vultures (I say that with a smile)
will be kept busy. The hoppers are starting to stack up in both yards here in Grand Junction.....


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[tunnel88]

I remember when a BN coal train derailed near the site where Elitch Gardens is today about 5(?)years ago... I think they left the cars there for weeks, while they had a huge pile of coal where they scooped it up with tractors. What a mess, i can only imagine 16 cars worth...

[wt&c]

That ain't anything. 36 Coal hoppers derailed of a CSXT train that had AEPX hoppers and rolled down through a cornfield http://www.trainboard.com/eek.gif.The rest of the cars were parked at an abandoned mine of 8 years. this happened 1 1/2 years ago. There 3 Union Pacific Cars http://www.trainboard.com/rolleyes.gif on that train and NTSB determined it was the UP cars that caused the accident. only took CSX 1 day to restore rail traffic. and 2 weeks to clean up. I heard there was an empty, old CSX boxcar that CSX let the farmer have (it landed right side up) and turned it into a chickenhouse.

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