I was watching a re run of tonights news and right as they went off the air they mentioned a train derailment on the Trinity River Bridge. Well, it's only four miles away, so I drove up there....The Trinity River Bridge is a high traffic three pier bridge about one hundred feet from the automotive bridges. The Southmost Pier of the three is now at a thirty five degree angle facing the direction of travel(south) causing a ten - fifteen foot drop in the tracks. Nine of the apporx thirty cars have derailed and the lead engine (UPRR) is detatched from the rest of the train by about 10 feet. I am unsure if this was intentional or part of the derailment. I did not find out about this derailment until several hours after it occured, however when I arrived there were still several Emergency Vehicles on the road, and Several UPRR MOW Vehicles on the Scene, towing along heavy equipment to right the cars and fix the bridge. This is a high traffic bridge serving no less than 20 trains a day. Now before anyone takes this as an official account of what happened, I am NOT an Emergency Official or UPRR Official. I am looking at this from a standpoint of Driving by. The information I have provided is by view only. I will post more information as it becomes avaliable.
Robert