Derailment at switchback

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NS Pocahontas Division wreck on July 18, 2010 (Photos) 

 

http://exm.nr/keystonewv  ß article and slideshow from this morning on-site

 

Overnight, NS derailed around twenty empty TTUX auto-racks in Keystone, WV
on the NS Pocahontas Division in southern WV along US 52. I was staying this
weekend at the Elkhorn Inn with my wife, so this occurred about 3 miles East
of our location.

 

The 2nd Main is open now and one west-bound intermodal has made it past us.

 

RJ Corman derailment team is on-site and the helper set is being used to
pull rerailed cars down into the Keystone coal marshalling yard. Looks like
there is some damage to the #1 main and also there were a few autos and a
coal truck destroyed in the wreck which occurred in downtown Keystone.

 

Gene Bowker

The Railroad Examiner

 

http://railfan.biz/

http://genebowker.com/

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