Derailment at Sspring City, TN CNOTP last nite... 7/28/16...

leroy · July 29, 2016, 07:15:30 AM

There was a pretty bad derailment at Spring City last nite near the depot... Preliminary reports is that no one was hurt... Lots of coal and cars on the ground... Check the Chattanooga news for details... Looks like re-routes have started thru knoxville to harriman....

leroy

Michael Knight · July 29, 2016, 08:36:37 AM

Photos here
http://newschannel9.com/news/local/gallery/train-derailment-in-spring-city-on-main-sthwy-27#photo-1

Quote from: wrcbtv.comRHEA COUNTY, TN (WRCB) -

UPDATE: A spokesperson for Norfolk Southern tells Channel 3 that 49 coal cars derailed in Spring City shortly after 9:00pm Thursday.

Some of the loaded coal cars turned on their sides, spilling coal along the tracks.

Norfolk Southern is on site and is in the process of removing the damaged cars from the rails in order to make track repairs and reopen the rail line.

There were no injuries to the train crew. The train consisted of 3 locomotives and 122 coal cars.

The cause of the derailment is under investigation.

But drivers will experience some delays on Highway 27 in Spring City as emergency crews work to clear the scene after a train derailment.

irgoodpilot · July 29, 2016, 07:53:53 PM

Poor West End dispatcher in Knoxville has his hands full this evening with reroutes and regular traffic... M70 is downtown and proceeding north to Coster, 215 is getting ready to come south through Coster, signal maintainer just cleared up his time at Coster, 295 is in the siding at Mullen Ridge, T35 is going north out of Knoxville to give him a shove over Copper Ridge, M31 is leaving West Sevier to go north to Coster (hurry up and wait), there's another southbound in the siding at Powell (not sure of ID), and an eastbound coming through Lenoir City. Talk about malfunction junction!

E.M. Bell · August 05, 2016, 01:20:36 AM

It was train that 72z that derailed, a loaded Kingston coal train that originated off the BNSF in Wyoming with BNSF 5733 BNSF 6297 BNSF 5863 2x1 DPU. 122 loads 0 Empties 17,443 tons.

Derailment occurred at 2100 and out of Only 4 cars salvageable (rerailed), the rest to be scrapped on site. Aprox 5000 feet of track damaged, and damage to the piney creek bridge plus signals

Official cause was a broken wheel on a coal hopper.

High_Hood · August 09, 2016, 06:12:05 AM

How did a Wyoming loaded coal train for Kingston derail in Spring City?
What routing were they using?
Why not come down the CNOTP from thru Kentucky?

florida581 · August 09, 2016, 07:23:22 AM

Quote from: High_Hood on August 09, 2016, 06:12:05 AM
How did a Wyoming loaded coal train for Kingston derail in Spring City?
What routing were they using?
Why not come down the CNOTP from thru Kentucky?

Powder River Wyoming coal trains bound for TVA Kingston are interchanged from BNSF to NS at Memphis, TN. The trains then run to Chattanooga and then north to Kingston. Routing these trains via Memphis is actually the most direct way to get to Kingston. Plus, it's a longer haul (more $) for BNSF to hand these trains over at Memphis than either Kansas City or St. Louis.

High_Hood · August 10, 2016, 06:17:53 AM

Quote from: florida581 on August 09, 2016, 07:23:22 AM
Routing these trains via Memphis is actually the most direct way to get to Kingston. Plus, it's a longer haul (more $) for BNSF to hand these trains over at Memphis than either Kansas City or St. Louis.

I agree with you on the more $$$ for BNSF part but I believe handing off at KC then running thru St Louis and Louisville would be a more direct route.