Train derails into Montana's Yellowstone River

Fox business ^ | 06/24/2023 | Timothy Nerozz

[Robert DeLong]

That train did not derail at all. The bridge collapsed, or was collapsed and the train couldn’t stop before reaching the bridge. Those trains cannot stop quickly. If they tried to stop quickly it would derail itself by virtue of inertia.

[higgmeister]

that’s affirmative

[Carriage Hill]

Well, it is the Yellow River... so no one will even notice.

[Carriage Hill]

“There seems to be systematic attacks...”

BINGO!

[rktman]

Truer words were blnkr flubnutered.

[mabarker1]

Paintsville UFO and Train Collision

The following is the official report by the CSX Engineer:

Paintsville, Kentucky -- At exactly 2:47 a.m. on January 14, 2002, while working a coal train enroute from Russell, Kentucky to Shelbiana, Kentucky, our trailing unit and first two cars were severely damaged as we struck an unknown floating or hovering object. I know it was 2:47 because my watch froze, and to this day shows that time.

Along with my watch the entire electrical systems on both locomotives went haywire. Approaching a bend near milepost 42 in an area referred to as the Wild Kingdom, for the many different types of animals spotted there, my conductor and I saw lights coming from around the way.

This ordinarily means another train is coming and will pass on the other track. The outlay of the area is this, the river, #1 track, #2 tracks and a straight up mountainside, carved out for the laying of these tracks. I killed our lights as not to blind the oncoming crew.

As we rounded the corner our onboard computer began to flash in and out, speed recorder went nuts, and both locomotives died. Alarm bells began to ring and that’s when we saw the objects. Apparently scanning the river for something. At least three objects had several "search" lights trained there, the first object hovered about 10 to 12 feet above the track.

It was metallic silver in color with multiple colored lights near the bottom and in the middle. There were no windows or openings of any kind that we could see. It was 18 to 20 feet in length and probably ten feet high.

With both engines dead as we rounded the corner we made little noise and the first object did not respond in time, I estimate that we hit the object at 30 mph with 16,000 trailing tons behind us. It clipped the top of our lead unit then skipped back slicing a chunk out of our trailing unit and first two coal cars. The other objects vanished.

• Our emergency brakes had initiated due to the loss of power and we stopped approximately a mile and a half to two miles after impact. Our power restored after we were stopped and we notified our dispatcher, located in Jacksonville, Florida of what had happened.

We were told to inspect the cars to see if they'd hold the rail and try to limp into milepost cmg 60 which used to be the Paintsville yard which is no longer in full operation. We checked everything out and the cab of the rear locomotive was demolished and smoking, the second two cars looked as if they had been hit with a giant hammer, but looked like they'd hold the rail.

We pulled into Paintsville yard at approximately 5:15 am. The huge overhead lights lining the yard were noticeably dark and the only lights came from what we assumed were railroad officials vehicles parked near the end of the track. We pulled to a stop and began unloading our grips off the wounded train. We could hear what sounded like an army of workers immediately tending to our train.

Vehicle doors slamming, guys running by in weird outfits and lights glaring from all directions, the one thing missing was railroad officials.

A guy named Ferguson shook my hand and asked me to follow him into the old yard office. We did, once inside they, and by they I mean I have no idea who these people were, began to ask us hundreds of questions, they then told us for our own protection we'd be medically tested before we could leave.

I asked repeatedly to talk to my road foreman or trainmaster and not only were these requests denied but they confiscated my conductor’s cellular phone.

Hours later we were led outside the old yard office and the strange things continued to happen, the 2 locomotives and two cars were removed from the rest of the train we had brought in and my only guess was parked 4 tracks over under a huge tent like structure buzzing with activity.

We were led off the property and told, due to national security, our silence on this matter would be appreciated.

We were then put in a railroad vehicle and taken to Martin, Kentucky were we went through questioning again with railroad officials and were then drug tested. After all of this we were sent on to Shelbiana, where we took rest for 8 hours and worked another train back to Russell. Working back we passed by Paintsville, no sign of the engines, cars, tent, people, nothing.

[rktman]

Thousand times a year per bootee judgejudge.

[nomorelurker]

“The bridge collapsed, or was collapsed and the train couldn’t stop before reaching the bridge”

I think bridge collapsed as train was crossing. If it was already down before train got there then engine (typically on front of train) should be in water, I don’t see that here.

[mabarker1]

UP 1 (((PING)))

[21twelve]

They have seen a lot more rain than usual this year. Good explanation I think.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

It certainly looks like that pier is completely washed away, doesn’t it?

That’s a very old RIVETED truss bridge — I’d guess at least 100 years old. These types of truss bridges became a common type of bridge built from the 1870s through the 1930s and many still remain across the US, but their numbers are dropping rapidly as they are demolished and replaced with new structures.

The steel sections are fabricated from simpler sections riveted together. The rivets are not just used at the truss plates connecting members.

Truss bridges consisting of more than one span (like this one) may be either a continuous truss or a series of simple trusses. In the simple truss design (this one that failed), each span is supported only at the ends and is fully independent of any adjacent spans. Therefore, each span must fully support the weight of any vehicles traveling over it (the live load).

Rivers all over the west have been very high this spring. I drove from California to North Idaho last month and rivers were near flood stage all over.

[sasquatch]

Trump caused this. Everyone knows it.

[bigbob]

Might only take a stick or two, or maybe a handful of M80s.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

It seems odd that the locomotive engines got over the bridge and it collapsed under the tank cars.

[jjotto]

2022 saw record flooding in this area, and again this year.

Apparently, the bridge collapsed before the train tried to cross.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/derailed-train-collapsed-bridge-yellowstone-river

[depressed in 06]

Where is Buttplug?

[Shady]

That’s a problem.

[Carriage Hill]

This is beyond weird...

[Shady]

Can’t tell from the pic if they were low or high pressure tankers in the river..

[ridesthemiles]

Montana & Wyoming & other states have some pretty remote areas.