Derailment near Tehachapi Loop

[ednadolski]

http://www.tehachapinews.com/news/tehachapi-loop-scene-of-train-derailment/article_cf5e44c2-fab0-11e6-ad7e-73e39e7d313b.html

First the Caliente flooding, now this 

Ed

[jagged ben]

This is the second stringline on that curve in the last year or so, right?

I'll tell you what, if I were running a long manifest on the club's N scale layout, I wouldn't put auto racks behind the lead locos.   

[ednadolski]

This is the second stringline on that curve in the last year or so, right?

Yep, the previous one was the beer cars and centerbeams:

Ed

[jagged ben]

Oh that's right, the beer.  We went from derailing beer cars to derailing oil cars, things are not looking up.   

[dougnelson]

Reminds me of my first trip to Tehachapi Loop in 2010 - just in time for a derailment of distilled alcohol tank cars right at the Loop tunnel:

http://tehachapiloopfire.blogspot.com