Train derailment in North Baltimore, Ohio

Saw it on CNN. Car trying to race the train to a crossing. I thought that train crews were told not to try and stop because it would cause what happen? I thought tossing the vehicle aside by hitting it at speed was safer?

I guess it depends on what network you listen to. Some of the other networks stated that all cars were stopped at the crossing and the train that derailed hit them.

Chris

According to the story at:

Since this is rec.models.SCALE, the important question in this thread is wether someone will build a diorama of this wreck and in which scale? H0 (1:87.1 or 3.5mm/ft), N or another?

Will it be true scale-size or selectively compressed?

:-) Peteski

It is? What have I missed here?

True scale wouldn't even fit in the door, mate. But I'd love a passenger car for my layout.

-- Ray

That is correct, one train derailed, and it derailed the one on the other track. The people in the cars were stopped.

BDK

The automobiles will be compressed, that's for sure.

actually, what happened was a chain hanging off a car snagged the switchstand and pulled something loose.

Almost. The chain snagged the switchstand and it turned the switch to the siding.

I understand there's going to be a rule forthcoming to have the switchstands turned so that if this happens again, it will line to the main. If the train is going the other direction, it would only be a misaligned trailing point switch, which the wheels will force the points back to the main.

Kennedy

Did you *really* see that?

That's odd, because the local station that fed the story to CNN reported from the start that the cars were sitting at the crossing just waiting and one train derailed and made the other one derail. The only thing missing was the actual cause, a hanging/dragging chain that tripped the switch as it went by. Maybe you are mixing up two stories?

BDK

Or posts to usenet, so it seems.