UP freight "t-bones" BNSF train, demolishes overpass

I guess b/c this was not a passenger crash it hasn't been noted much:

(Reuters) - Two freight trains collided at a rail intersection in rural Missouri on Saturday, triggering the collapse of a highway overpass when at least a dozen rail cars derailed and struck a support pillar, authorities said.

None of the seven people hurt in the fiery crash - two train workers and five occupants of two cars on the overpass - suffered life-threatening injuries, Scott County Sheriff Rick Walter said in a statement.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/05/ ... 7020130526

It looks like the incident actually took place at the diamond right outside of the small town of Rockville, MO.

Single by single track 61 degree (about) diamond located at about 37 deg - 12.286' N, 89 deg - 38.403' W, under demolished bridge, altitude (by Google Earth) 333 ft. One track runs east - west (geographic) and the other about 029 - 209 degrees true. http://www.ntsb.gov has some nice downloadable pix available.

Fourteen months later two wrecked UPRR engines on the right of way and no NTSB report.

NTSB has issued Accident Report NTSB/RAR-14/02 PB2015-102084 "Collision of Union Pacific Railroad Freight Train with BNSF Railway Freight Train Near Chaffee, Missouri May 25, 2013"