Rail Crash Thread

>>1081897
Quit talking like a soft faggot. Post more wrecks. Let's get a trainwreckd thread.

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>>1081898
FUKN REKT'D M9

I actually met the daughter of the one of the conductors on this.

She is the nurse at an optometrist's office.

https://www.gendisasters.com/louisiana/19653/lettsworth-la-troop-train-crashes-swamp-aug-1951

>>1081897
I started the disaster thread with the plane crashing. As I said, I think this wreck is the earliest major news story that I actually remember (I was a bit less than 7 at the time).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iW2KSTkHuA8

That Cajon Pass is serious, mang.

>>1081948
m8 I watched this video in the other thread, and the next one, and after part five there is no part six.
I gotta know what the resolution of the whole thing was as far as blame goes.
a search revealed that some lawyer took on the cases for most of the individuals in the neighborhood and ran away with their giant settlement though

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On May 25, 1950 a Chicago streetcar collided with a gasoline tanker truck at speed. 34 people were killed and 50 were injured. Firemen found bodies melted and fused into the seats.

>>1081953
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvXcBfbzARA

Found the full version, but it's sped up slightly for copyright reasons.

>>1081916
>https://www.gendisasters.com/louisiana/19653/lettsworth-la-troop-train-crashes-swamp-aug-1951
When was this?

>>1081937
Bloody hell!

>>1082048
Take a look at the URL.

>>1082011
thanks, that was an interesting conclusion

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Lac Megsntic train explosion in Quebec in 2013 when an unattended 74-car freight train carrying Bakken Formation crude oil rolled down a 1.2% grade from Nantes and derailed downtown, resulting in the fire and explosion of multiple tank cars. Forty-two people were confirmed dead, with five more missing and presumed dead.[3] More than 30 buildings in the town's centre, roughly half of the downtown area, were destroyed,[2] and all but three of the thirty-nine remaining downtown buildings are to be demolished due to petroleum contamination of the townsite.[4] Initial newspaper reports described a 1-kilometre (0.6 mi) blast radius.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lac-Mégantic_rail_disaster

Pic is before and after

>>1082050
Later I will.

>>1082127
Fucking hell! I don't think any UK train crash could match that!

>>1082133
The irony is that Quebec is now holding up a cross country oil pipeline which would make obsolete oil tanker rail cars running through their province.

>>1082127
I have an uncle in Maine just over the border who works for a construction company. I think he said he met some people who crossed the border to help with the fire and rescue people.

>>1082133
Didn't you guys have a big oil tank explosion outside London several years back?

>>1082127
This is why you don't let engineers tie handbrakes.

>>1082144
>Didn't you guys have a big oil tank explosion outside London several years back?
This one?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buncefield_fire
That was a storage depot that went up.
Quite a big boom iirc.

>>1082144
Yeah, in Buncefield that is.

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>>1082127
>type 'rue frontenac lac megantic pq' into google maps
>totally barren ground with rue frontenac running across
>zoom into street view
>images from jun 2013, all buildings still there
>walk a block, cross railroad tracks
>look back
>images from jun 2015, site cleanup in progress behind fences

>>1082231
Erie af