Wreck and derailment in Glendale, CA

Jan 26, 2005 2 Replies

A Metrolink commuter train with a consist of bi level cars struck a Jeep left on the tracks by a man who claims he wanted to commit suicide then changed his mind derailing into the path of a UP freight. At present there are 10 dead and more than 200 injured. The Glendale police have apprehended the Jeep owner and the District Attorney is considering charging him with first degree murder with special circumstances due to the numbers involved (he could also be given special circumstances as a police officer was one of the victims). The line is shut down while investigators try to gather the pieces of the trains which are scattered over a 1/2 mile area and the search for survivors and bodies continues.



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He'll get his way. But it will take a long time to happen and then it will be by lethal injection.

I wouldn't quite say it went "into the path of a UP freight".

The UP work train was PARKED on a siding adjacent to the mainline.

More likely you should say it went "into the path of another Metrolink train".

TWO Metrolink trains were involved, as well as the PARKED UP work train.

The southbound Metrolink hit a car on the tracks (some idiot contemplating suicide, then chickened out, left the car there). Metrolink cab car 625 hit the car, derailed, piled into the PARKED UP freight, buckled around at about 135 degrees, fouling the northbound main, on which the 873 and its train were travelling at speed.

Metrolink engines 873 (F59PH) and 886 (F59PHI), cab cars 623 and 624, coaches 133, 148, 177, 197 and UP SD70M 4323 were the equipment involved.

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