CSX lost 76 loaded hoppers yesterday morning, in a reported runaway on 17 Mile Grade.
No one was injured, thank goodness, and RJ Corman is on the job!
The road you can see here is the access to a private home on the left, and a road
along side the right of way.
The following photos are ones I made a few years ago, and are very near the wreck site,
just below the bottom in the second photo.
The wreck is just around the s curve at the bottom you can see here.
These are the three engines, at the crew shack in the Keyser a yard. the SD 40-2
is a shuttle engine they have been using.
Corman on the job. This road goes alongside Savage River, on the other side of the
river a steep bank with the right of way. This lot is nearby the access road to Bond Tower,
and the Corman equipment was able to get to the mess from here.
This is at Bloomington, panel track is being unloaded here, and other equipment, ect,
moves up the right of way to the accident area. There used to be a house on the
right side of the curve, and a runaway in 2000 wiped it out, and took the life
of a young man who lived in the home.
I could not get to the site, I'm old, the weather was bad, and no public access.
Here us what it looks like up there. If it's sunny I might go up in the morning and
get a photo from across the river to show everyone how nasty it is up there.
Ed
