Lord have mercy… | CSX I032 strikes L743 in Folkston, Georgia
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Published 2024-04-15
FOR THOSE WHO NEED MORE CONTEXT: At 1:20 PM CSX train I032 collided with parked rock train L743 at about 40-50 miles per hour due to a misaligned switch at the tip of the funnel in Folkston, Georgia. No one was killed. PTC was out so that the trains would instantly be thrown into emergency upon entering Folkston due to the track work. After the track crew was finished, they misaligned a switch, causing the intermodal train to come down that track streaking.
(if any of this is incorrect LMK in the comments)
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Way back when, when I was a kid, a train derailed near my house that had a car filled with huge blocks of Nestle chocolate. No one was injured, but all the neighborhood kids gained some weight. Maybe 1977-78ish.
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Glad PTC is working just as intended.
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Ok, for all of us that only saw a train going by and heard a couple of loud “bangs”……what happened?
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I hope everyone is OK That was really a bad collision. I didn’t even know csx had another derailment
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Accidents seldom have one cause. This "chain of causation" as described by the author is a perfect example of how several issues combine to form the perfect chain.
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At 0:46 of the video, you can hear what sounds like air, was he going into emergency at that time?
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“Holy Smokes” says the CSX employee. Not even enthusiastically 😂. It’s just another Tuesday for a railroader lmao.
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Looked like the guys in the pickup were reading serial numbers off the containers to help select lottery picks.
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It's like CSX didn't learn from the Cayce, SC crash. How does this happen twice in 6 years?
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Where did that second slam come from? Maybe the cars hitting the others
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You can hear when the emergency break was put on, you could hear the air and then the train began to slow down
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The dirty secret is that Positive Train Control is online on every railroad for about 12 hrs a day.
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Paging Captain Astro-glide . Call for Captain Astro-glide!!!!
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Way to go CSX
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Damn my screen recording spread fast! Glad i was able to snag it in time before Mike and the pay to win goons took down all the streams to prevent more people from seeing what happened! If you want a higher quality video just lmk I can send it to you over discord or something, Instagram compression went brrr
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My sister lives in Folkston Ga and her kids herd this train wreck at school it was so load
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Human error
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I saw a man in my neighborhood when I was a kid in a Peterbuilt truck painted like the one in the show Movin On....Green, shiny . Get hit by a train it seemed like in slow motion...he turned the corner to cross the tracks and boom...car in front of him stalled. He couldn't go forward nor back up...I just sat there on my bike and watched the freight train take that truck about 150 yards down the track....Broke both of his legs but he survived and was fine. Now a days a kid would say they have PTSD because they saw it.
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Where is the video showing the exact impact of this train with the one it ran into?
