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The incident occurred about 4 p.m. at the east end of Buelow siding,....Buelow is located at milepost 1015.8, between Havre and Shelby on BNSF Railway’s Hi Line Subdivision.What is the track speed in this area?
MBTA3247 wrote: ↑Sun Sep 26, 2021 12:29 am The train was heading west and passing over the switch at the east end of Buelow Siding when it derailed. As the front of the train didn't derail, my guess would be that one of the cars towards the middle split the switch. I'll leave it to the NTSB to determine why it split the switch.The photo at 1:13 in the YouTube video MACTRAXX posted is looking west, it shows the three cars on their sides before having reached the switch, along the single track section. If the train split the switch then the derailing cars must have pulled the following three cars onto their sides, or the train derailed ahead of the switch. The signals of the interlocking are visible in the distance with the rest of the derailed train between them.
lordsigma12345 wrote: ↑Sun Sep 26, 2021 9:44 am https://asm.transitdocs.com/train/2021/9/24/7Would make sense given the Hi-Line is 79 through there for passenger/60 freight.
Transit docs for the incident train. The last report from the locomotive before being stopped at the accident site the train was traveling at speed around 78 mph. If this was an at-speed derailment those Superliner cars held up pretty well and this could have been even worse. But don’t want to jump to any conclusions either we’ll have to wait and see what the NTSB reports.