Yesterday I was in Seattle to attend WWE SmackDown! at the Key Arena. A few blocks from the arena is a BNSF line that I visit whenever I'm in the area. The line only gets 28 trains a day so it's not as busy as other lines in the area (I've never seen anything here when I've been at the overhead bridge.)
I'm not familiar with the railroad outside of Whatcom County (where I live,) but I can tell you that this was a local train that was switching a grain elevator south of here. When I arrived, two cars were still derailed (only one is in the photo below.) The switcher was far enough ahead to keep the crossing signals at Broad Street activated. I stayed until they got all the railcars back on the line.
Here's a Youtube video I took. For some reason, the camera I was using only picked up sound on the left side. There is sound on the right side, but it's faint. The quality is also lower because I was using my waterproof camera because it was raining. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4FcgVnNPXU&t=15s
I once saw in person an aftermath of a crossing collision a few years ago. Basically, we were driving along a nearby highway when I noticed a stopped train which had a car caught at the front of it (though I didn't notice the car at the time). I said "What happened there?!" to my father who was driving and he had no idea. I later found out that the vehicle had been hit at the Brunt Road level crossing between Beaconsfield and Officer stations' by a Pakenham bound service traveling at around 115km/h (or 70mp/h). This so happens to be the speed limit for trains along this section of track, and thus it hit the stationary sedan with great force. Thankfully, the driver survived the crash.
LARDLOGO wrote:Yesterday I was in Seattle to attend WWE SmackDown! at the Key Arena. A few blocks from the arena is a BNSF line that I visit whenever I'm in the area. The line only gets 28 trains a day so it's not as busy as other lines in the area (I've never seen anything here when I've been at the overhead bridge.)
I'm not familiar with the railroad outside of Whatcom County (where I live,) but I can tell you that this was a local train that was switching a grain elevator south of here. When I arrived, two cars were still derailed (only one is in the photo below.) The switcher was far enough ahead to keep the crossing signals at Broad Street activated. I stayed until they got all the railcars back on the line.
Here's a Youtube video I took. For some reason, the camera I was using only picked up sound on the left side. There is sound on the right side, but it's faint. The quality is also lower because I was using my waterproof camera because it was raining. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4FcgVnNPXU&t=15s
LARDLOGO wrote:Yesterday I was in Seattle to attend WWE SmackDown! at the Key Arena. A few blocks from the arena is a BNSF line that I visit whenever I'm in the area. The line only gets 28 trains a day so it's not as busy as other lines in the area (I've never seen anything here when I've been at the overhead bridge.)
I'm not familiar with the railroad outside of Whatcom County (where I live,) but I can tell you that this was a local train that was switching a grain elevator south of here. When I arrived, two cars were still derailed (only one is in the photo below.) The switcher was far enough ahead to keep the crossing signals at Broad Street activated. I stayed until they got all the railcars back on the line.
Here's a Youtube video I took. For some reason, the camera I was using only picked up sound on the left side. There is sound on the right side, but it's faint. The quality is also lower because I was using my waterproof camera because it was raining. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4FcgVnNPXU&t=15s
Local Train Derailment- Seattle, Wa- October 17, 2017 by christophersbrother, on Flickr
