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Major derailment in Oshawa - RobertInOntario - 06-05-2009 I expect many folks will have heard about this by now. Today, there was a major derailment in Oshawa on a CP freight line. I was just watching the news and they said that some 27 cars had derailed. I saw some pics and the train was in a zig-zag shape! Fortunately, no one was injured although they have evacuated residents from their home in a 1 km radius (it was in a residential area). Here a couple links on this story: <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://images.ctv.ca/archives/CTVNews/img2/20090605/160_train6_090605.jpg&imgrefurl=http://montreal.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20090605/cp_oshawa_090605/20090605/%3Fhub%3DMontrealHome&usg=__q97JmmHoGaYx1whPotLWWX1yag4=&h=120&w=160&sz=17&hl=en&start=2&um=1&tbnid=c1cGvLIPLs3oOM:&tbnh=74&tbnw=98&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dderailment%2Bin%2BOshawa%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dsafari%26rls%3Den-us%26sa%3DN%26um%3D1">http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl= ... N%26um%3D1</a><!-- m --> <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.torontosun.com/news/torontoandgta/2009/06/05/9691831.html">http://www.torontosun.com/news/torontoa ... 91831.html</a><!-- m --> Rob Re: Major derailment in Oshawa - MasonJar - 06-06-2009 Looks like no one was hurt, and the only diesel spill/fire was from the fuel tank of the loco... better than an entire 20,000 gal tanker...! Andrew Re: Major derailment in Oshawa - e-paw - 06-06-2009 must have bin loud. In a strange way I almost wish I was there to see it. Re: Major derailment in Oshawa - eightyeightfan1 - 06-06-2009 e-paw Wrote:must have bin loud. In a strange way I almost wish I was there to see it. Bet it sounded like a tornado coming. Good thing no one got hurt. It could of been worse. Re: Major derailment in Oshawa - ngauger - 06-06-2009 Yeah - lucky no one was hurt. I still remember hearing (from 2 miles away) a derailment on the B&O. Best description I can muster is that first you hear the brakes Squeel... then you hear a very deep metal hitting metal (Think like a steel plate falling) Then you hear the Metel hitting metal sound.. over and over.... The last derailment we had here was 20+ cars... lasted about 45 seconds... Then about 30 seconds later... All the fire sirens started.. Scarey - really scarey..... it was about 35 years ago... |