Anyone hear if the BNSF executive train has wrecked?

[reinhardtjh]

The news reports haven't had much information, but I suspect, just from the pictures, that a rail turned over under one of the cars, and the rest just followed along.  A typical yard incident when the ties get old or the ground is soggy.

I thought it stated right in the article that the stationary tank cars were struck at slow speed by cars from another train.

Sounds like a lone car got loose in the yard somehow.

Montana Rail Link officials said the accident occurred about 4 a.m. when a rail car loaded with company scrap metal made low-speed contact with a stationary empty tank car coupled to 29 others.

[nkalanaga]

Thank you.  I read my report on KCFW TV from Kalispell, and they didn't mention a cause.  The Missoulian wants me to pay for the news, and they don't have enough of interest to me on a regular basis to be worth it, so I quit reading them several years ago.

Was it at a switch, and the cars "cornered" or sideswiped, or was the scrap metal car on the same track?  A hard coupling by a runaway car seems unlikely to have turned the tank cars over, but stranger things have happened.

[peteski]

I guess the possible crash mentioned in the subject line is no longer being discussed... 

[jagged ben]

I guess the possible crash mentioned in the subject line is no longer being discussed... 

I guess that's because it's a completely false internet rumor?

[C855B]

I guess that's because it's a completely false internet rumor?

Hell, these kind of wild, unbased rumors were rampant in the railfan community well before the internet. Why should a silly pair of wires change human nature?

[ljudice]

The train obviously encountered one of the "vile vortexes"  from that show on H2 Channel the other night!!!

Were any black helicopters or Nazi ghost soldiers seen in the vicinity?   Odd magnetic activity or strange animal attacks???

[victor miranda]

I think I have it.

unconfirmed reports assembled:

a rabid rabit bit a hole in the wheel of a tanker
the tanker leaned over and scratched the executive train as it passed.
Just after it fell over taking a whole line of
tightlocked cars over with it.

a hobo was last seen with a lit cigar and chasing the rabit.

don't ask the name of the hungry hobo.

and one wonders how rumored disasters happen....

[peteski]

I guess that's because it's a completely false internet rumor?

Darn!  There goes a good modeling opportunity.