East Palestine Derailment and Fire

[Ohiosam]

Mandatory evacuation ordered.

'Catastrophic failure' possible; mandatory evacuation in East Palestine ordered

The village's mayor Trent Conaway along with Fire Chief Keith Drabick said the village is now facing

www.wfmj.com

 

[Walkercomp]

Long time linger 1 or 2 time poster. So I work for a rail road. This is not a normal thing. But what I will say is the (defect detectors) aka "sensors" do give wrong messages to trains sometimes(over the radio). But wrong they are or not, trains do have to stop to walk the train to see what they find. But the bearings on wheels get hot very fast. We as employees call in trains to let them know about smoke or smells we observe. The detectors are randomly throughout depending on traffic and speed. Anyway just my two cents.

 

[giles]

I hope they get it under control before anything worse happens.

 

[Jackalope]

Long time linger 1 or 2 time poster. So I work for a rail road. This is not a normal thing. But what I will say is the (defect detectors) aka "sensors" do give wrong messages to trains sometimes(over the radio). But wrong they are or not, trains do have to stop to walk the train to see what they find. But the bearings on wheels get hot very fast. We as employees call in trains to let them know about smoke or smells we observe. The detectors are randomly throughout depending on traffic and speed. Anyway just my two cents.

Thanks for the informative post. No joke on the longtime lurker, 6 years and your first post. Welcome to the light.

 

["J"]

Long time linger 1 or 2 time poster. So I work for a rail road. This is not a normal thing. But what I will say is the (defect detectors) aka "sensors" do give wrong messages to trains sometimes(over the radio). But wrong they are or not, trains do have to stop to walk the train to see what they find. But the bearings on wheels get hot very fast. We as employees call in trains to let them know about smoke or smells we observe. The detectors are randomly throughout depending on traffic and speed. Anyway just my two cents.

Welcome, you a NS employee?

 

[Ohiosam]

Thanks for the informative post. No joke on the longtime lurker, 6 years and your first post. Welcome to the light.

Now the pump is primed...

 

[Dustinb80]

Welcome aboard.

 

[Hedgelj]

Long time linger 1 or 2 time poster. So I work for a rail road. This is not a normal thing. But what I will say is the (defect detectors) aka "sensors" do give wrong messages to trains sometimes(over the radio). But wrong they are or not, trains do have to stop to walk the train to see what they find. But the bearings on wheels get hot very fast. We as employees call in trains to let them know about smoke or smells we observe. The detectors are randomly throughout depending on traffic and speed. Anyway just my two cents.

Welcome, feel free to continue to post, new perspectives are a good thing.

 

["J"]

Looks like they’re going too blow it. Controlled vs unexpected.
Good thing Dewine decided too show up, landing the helicopter on the HS football field…..

 

[Ohiosam]

it’ll be 5 tanks punctured simultaneously with shaped charges

 

["J"]

People suck, even with a catastrophic emergency they’ll try too take advantage and ripoff anyone they can.

 

[5Cent]

Got the news on now, talking which way wind is blowing and toxic cloud impact. This should be interesting...

 

[Walkercomp]

I appreciate it guys, it has been too long, I just dont like to post things. I'm a 37yr old with no social media except here lol.. maybe things will change now.. so i work for csx, as a signal maintainer. So basically I test/get called out for switches, crossings, signals you see along the tracks. We dont dont do track work. Basically if you see lights on the rail, then that's what we do. But what I've been told from "old timers" if you see candy cane tanks derail drive away as fast as possible and anything chloride get out! Just too damn bad to see what's going on up there. These big companies wont say what's really happening

 

["J"]

I appreciate it guys, it has been too long, I just dont like to post things. I'm a 37yr old with no social media except here lol.. maybe things will change now.. so i work for csx, as a signal maintainer. So basically I test/get called out for switches, crossings, signals you see along the tracks. We dont dont do track work. Basically if you see lights on the rail, then that's what we do. But what I've been told from "old timers" if you see candy cane tanks derail drive away as fast as possible and anything chloride get out! Just too damn bad to see what's going on up there. These big companies wont say what's really happening

Buddy who works for NS does the same. They’ve been wearing him out this week.
I come from a RR family. Grandfather, conductor. Father worked in the rail yards. Both for the Erie Lackawanna and father retired from Conrail. Brother retired from NS and have a half dozen friends who are with NS doing the same as you.

 

["J"]

Looks like they did it!

 

[Ohiosam]

 

["J"]

National Guard called in to assist in aftermath of Ohio train derailment

The Ohio National Guard was activated to assist with evacuations after a fiery train crash that took place when about 50 cars derailed in the village of East Palestine.

www.foxnews.com

Hopefully they won’t be there long.

 

[Clay Showalter]

Welcome aboard.

I see what you did there, very nice. All aboard.

 

["J"]

I see what you did there, very nice. All aboard.

Should’ve been “ALL ABOARD”!!!!

 

[Ohiosam]