exas flood causes derailment

link goes to a story from May 11, 2015.  ??

 I just saw on weather nation two diesel locomotives on their side in the flood. I had to wonder why a railroad would send a crew and a train out in such bad weather 

Probably because of $$$.

Try this link and click on the "able to jump free of the locomotive" link. Says all but six cars in the sixty four car train derailed.

http://www.wfaa.com/story/weather/2015/10/24/weather-blog-rain/74523686/

WFAA aerial photos of the derailment

Looks like a lot more than the rolling stock immediately behind the locomotives flipped over. Would hoppers have couplers tight enough to roll that many cars once the head-end overturned? (tank cars I can understand)

---PCJ

Railroading is not a fair weather enterprise.

Rusty

On the news it shows the cement hoppers on their sides, with the wheelsets still sort of on the track.  Did the truck sideframes all fail at once?

I can see the derailment - the locomotives came to an immediate stop and the rest of the train was still moving.  Boom!  Couplers probably helped a bit.

Really, record rains, known flooding.  UP should of shut down for the day in the area until the tracks could be inspected.

You know, if they had only implemented PTC according to the schedule these things would not have happened. 

I think the train rolled over because everything underneath it was washed out not the force of the water hitting it.  

How in the wide wide world of sports is PTC going to know what the heck Mother nature is thinking?

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until the tracks could be inspected

How do we know the tracks weren't inspected?

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I think the train rolled over because everything underneath it was washed out not the force of the water hitting it.

From what I saw on CTA's video above, except for right at the head end, it looked like the track was for the most part intact.