STATEN ISLAND TRAIN DERAILMENT WITH INJURIES

Hope it wasn't Ben behind the controls

-- Greg

I guess they wanted to extend the line by jumping the Kill Van Kull, to get into Perth Amboy, N.J.

Ralph

Nope wasn't me  BUtttt somebody is in big trouble  He hit the bumping block and bounced. 

Alex

They are turning the trains at Pleasant plains hence the slow speed

Hi Ben,

 

I see what you mean, the inbound to Totenville is stopping just passed the switch track behind my house, and then crossing over to the out bound to St George .

 

Alex

Hope that the injuries are not too bad.....

 

Peter

 

Looks to me that the diesel's are riding some top brass around.

 

 

 

 

 

 

What are some of the possible causes for the accident?  Anything other than human error?

 

--Greg

Slim to none other than human error.  

I never hit a bumping post, but some of you may remember one of my posts from the past in which I told about losing time on a bad meet on a San Diegan, and therefore was trying to make avery second count to avoid being late at the next meeting point.  As a result, I unwisely made a very aggressive approach to the stop at San Juan Capistrano, and stopped in a great cloud of brake shoe smoke.  That was not a good move, not my best work, and that was the last time I ever ran too hot up to a stop, lest I should miss the proper spot on the platform or fail to stop short of a signal or an obstruction.

 

Running too hot -- the Federal accident reports are filled with the results of doing it.

Makes one wonder how he managed to tear the bumping block out like that with little apparent damage to the carbody...those R44's aren't built to railroad crashworthiness standards, as far as I know (FRA technicalities for grabirons and such on SIR aside, since they still are a physically isolated operation)

 

Aren't there timers+stop arms in the terminal? (I've yet to ride SIR)

 

---PCJ

 Pray that those injured recover in short time,and that the train Gods favor them

Here's a photo of the train that overshot the bumper

 

http://www.silive.com/news/ind...rted_in_train_d.html

 

Alex

Why is it there are always a lot white hats standing around at a train incident? The looks on their faces always conjures up a lot of thoughts about what's on their minds.

 

Sorry to hear about the injuries. I, too, hope for their speedy recovery.