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here's one pretty bad one - today - athough its freight,

http://xfinity.comcast.net/articals/....Collision/
or google Oklahoma train crash

link is broken.

There was something in yesterday's Dallas Morning News, although I forgot about it and didn't look into it further.

Bad indeed Mr B. Spare a though for the families of the three UPR train crew who were killed in this head on collision. For some reason one of the trains should have been switched into a loop, clearing the road for the other.
Owd Sweedy.

Theres a great scene in the 1973 movie EMPEROR OF THE NORTH starring Lee Marvin & Ernest Borgnine where 2 steam hauled trains race head on on a single line in thick fog!!.

A steam hauled freight train goes 'flat out' to reach a refuge siding to get in clear of the single line just seconds before a fast mail train comes tearing out of the fog and passes it in the refuge siding!!.

All very dramatic stuff (it really is) but it does leave you wondering is this how American railroads normally operate??.

G'Day Gents

My thoughts go out to any footplate crew that get killed on duty

I also wonder how the railways operate when put onto film, and some of the absolute garbage that they put in a movie about the workings of railways

manna

UP has anounced $19.6 billion proffit for 2011 , lets hopethey look after the family's.

mr B

Huge distances are single-line working in North America (the 170 miles between the two major cities in Alberta, Edmonton and Calgary, a busy freight route, for one example). I know that, operated properly, it's a safe enough system but, sadly, the possibility always exists that a tragedy can occur.

Shouldn't this be locked until we know the outcome of the enquiry?