Derailment - Santa Fe Junction KC caught on camera

[John]

[DKS]

Live feed--as of now, they have two cranes on site.

[Chris333]

https://www.google.com/maps/@39.0834911,-94.6072471,3a,47.4y,255.05h,98.56t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s2rIhU-lNER3114BwyWLnFg!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

[central.vermont]

I'm willing too say that they picked a switch point. There is a crossover where it happened. One hell of a ride!!!

[DKS]

Switch to Camera #2 for a closeup view of the action.

[ednadolski]

00:16 - UP 9104 rocks front-to-back, I wonder if that's the point where she comes off the rails.

Ed

[DKS]

Here's a sampling from the last hour:

[RBrodzinsky]

Just before 9104 gets in frame, the sound changes dramatically

[mu26aeh]

We were watching this mornings clean up efforts


Guess it wasn't exciting enough to stay awake

[davefoxx]

Guess it wasn't exciting enough to stay awake

Was it that or the Sleeper Hold? 

DFF

[Philip H]

watching bits and pieces of the live stream - they didn't get the locos off the bridge until about 9AM today local time, and they had to deadhead an NS engine from the other side to drag them off once they got righted.

[mu26aeh]

Was it that or the Sleeper Hold? 

DFF

Actually just a headrest.  Had just enough room between my arm and chest for him to crawl into for viewing and ultimately sleeping

[DKS]

That's a Hallmark "Awww" moment if I ever saw one...

[John]

I watched quite a bit yesterday, and some this morning .. it was quite an impressive effort to say the least ..

[signalmaintainer]

I'm willing too say that they picked a switch point. There is a crossover where it happened. One hell of a ride!!!

Hmmm, not impossible, but not as likely as a broken wheel or rail. Prototype wheels are pretty forgiving at switch points relative to our models.

Here's why I say this: If the points were gapped more than  0.249", given a properly adjusted switch per CFR 236, then the signal would never have cleared for the move. That's one of the many checks a signal system makes before clearing a signal a dispatcher has requested.