Anybody have more on this video clip?

Does anybody have more on this video clip?

OMG that was aweesome, lol

i hope that no one got injured in this accident

thanks for the link CSX conductor

Yikes!

Best I could make out was a 5xx or 5xxx number on the cab. Anyone know if a GE from that series was recently wrecked?

There aren't any 500/600/5000/5100/7300/7900 series units that would match this on the CSXT Photo Archives. I noticed that the photo on the main page has been changed in the past month or so but some things haven't been updated in a long time.

that engine looks like it could be a Dash 9 , or AC4400CW or AC6000

thats what it looks like to me, and from the back radiator, i have seen 5000 series in the paint scheme in Framingham, there are also 600's and 500's in that paint scheme

I believe this occurred in NC when Hurricane Floyd hit a few years ago, washing out some roadbed in a pretty bad way.

MBTA F40PH-2C 1050 wrote:that engine looks like it could be a Dash 9 , or AC4400CW or AC6000

thats what it looks like to me, and from the back radiator, i have seen 5000 series in the paint scheme in Framingham, there are also 600's and 500's in that paint scheme

That's what I meant by all the number series listed above.

Yes, this was in Charlotte NC several years ago. It was about a half mile from downtown Charlotte. Old culvert under a fairly high fill washed out in storms. 1999 I believe. The fill at this location has been replaced with a bridge. CSX (Seaboard) has a number of locations on this line where the culverts are very much undersized. If its like the one that is about 1000 ft from where I work in Matthews NC it was a hand laid stone box culvert. The one here floods upstream properties several times a year. The line was constructed in 1874 by the Carolina Central RR.

I remember seeing that video a few years ago

For the record, if it was a 500 #, it's a 4400.

It was an AC4400 in the 200 or 300 range

the poster was correct, this happened in north carolina in the mid 90's

there are pictures on railpictures.net somewhere too

it has to be 100-400 series the radiator wing looks to be thin than 600 series. I would say more of one of the early wing design.. 7300-7900??? but the numbers look like 3 digital to me.. like 287 . but crummy quality of video anyway.

I remember saw this video on one of these 630 pm national tv news.

by the way 500 is AC44 with extra weight of ballast..

crazy_nip wrote:It was an AC4400 in the 200 or 300 range

the poster was correct, this happened in north carolina in the mid 90's

there are pictures on railpictures.net somewhere too

I Think the number is #521... or something It was 52-, that was all I could make-out

how were they able to get the out of hte ditch? I mean im sure the ground surrounding the whole was unstable too.

how were they able to get the out of hte ditch?

This is how: http://www.rjcorman.com/derail.shtml