Tuesday accident

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Unless there were signal malfunctions or some unusual issue with the locomotives it would most likely be pure human error.  Approach (amber) and stop (red) signal indications protect a train ahead from a train behind if properly observed.  Where was the rear end of the proceeding train located relative to the nearest signal and turnout when the collision occurred? 

There was an instance in Sewickley, PA a while back where the engineer didn't properly follow the signal indication and rear ended the train ahead of him. 

 http://triblive.com/news/adminpage/6609767-74/train-engineer-company#axzz3g4sC1BF4

NS took an interesting approach to dealing with the engineers failure to control his train.

Ed Painter - Narrows,VA living in North Georgia


On Jul 16, 2015, at 9:36 AM, NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 8:35 AM, Mike wrote:
> 
> Using Street View there seems to be a signal for westbounds shortly before the accident site. Can anyone add details of what went wrong.
> 
> No details known yet (that anyone is talking about). From a 2003 track chart, that section of track is single track, a seven mile block between sections of double track. There is a home signal at JC at the Radford end of the bridge over the New River (MP 302) and a home signal at Wysor, just past Dublin (MP 309.2, can be seen from the VA 100 overpass). There are automatic signals for both directions at MP 304.7 and 306.9 that give the advance indication for the home signals. Track speed is 30 MPH as the line climbs up from New River, then it changes to 40 MPH when the track comes out of Morgan's Cut (about where the old U.S. 11 bridge crosses the track). The grade averages 1% from the end of the bridge until it tops out a little ways into the Wysor siding; there is a series of 6-degree left and right curves between the river and Morgan's Cut, then the line is relatively straight to Wysor (there are some short curves sprinkled throughout, nothing that would impair forward vision though).
> 
> Bruce in Blacksburg
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