Canadian Pacific train derails in Franklin Park near Chicago

Slow moving train drags for a long distance as the cars roll off track.

Neat video ....

Some wheat was spilled !!!!!

Scraping and grinding 😎

🚧 Canadian Pacific train derails in Franklin Park near Chicago

FRANKLIN PARK, Illinois - Two cars of a Canadian Pacific train derailed in a suburb of Chicago on Sunday.

The train derailment happened around 12:45 p.m. in Franklin Park, leading to closed crossings and hours’ worth of cleanup.

One car was carrying wheat and the other was empty, Canadian Pacific said in a statement.

Canadian Pacific said no one was hurt, and that there were no hazardous materials or public safety issues involved.

Still, witnesses said it was a scary situation.

"One of the cars started leaning a little bit and actually started scraping against the rocks," said Patrick Stralina.

a reply to: xuenchen

Two more derailments N. Dakota
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Mojave desert Monday.
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Yet people are afraid to fly !!

Okay what is with all the Train derailments ?

This is starting to seem purposeful , All of these derailments in this short window cant be coincidence.

originally posted by: asabuvsobelow
Okay what is with all the Train derailments ?

This is starting to seem purposeful , All of these derailments in this short window cant be coincidence.

As tempting as a Chicken Little Doom answer is, it just boils fown to we average around a thousand derailments annually, and our infrastrure for it is straight up decayed #.

originally posted by: Nyiah

originally posted by: asabuvsobelow
Okay what is with all the Train derailments ?

This is starting to seem purposeful , All of these derailments in this short window cant be coincidence.

As tempting as a Chicken Little Doom answer is, it just boils fown to we average around a thousand derailments annually, and our infrastrure for it is straight up decayed #.

But rails are all privately owned !!!! 😁

originally posted by: Nyiah

originally posted by: asabuvsobelow
Okay what is with all the Train derailments ?

This is starting to seem purposeful , All of these derailments in this short window cant be coincidence.

As tempting as a Chicken Little Doom answer is, it just boils fown to we average around a thousand derailments annually, and our infrastrure for it is straight up decayed #.

Honestly it's a relief to hear that and your right I did some research it's not that uncommon , Just seems to be getting a lot of Media exposure.

If some perps were taking a sledge hammer to a rail joint, it would be hard to prove because the derailing would start there and the track would then be all torn and twisted by the cars behind it.

In the Ohio chemical derailment, the crew got a failing axle bearing alert before they started to apply the brakes. I would also imagine it would take quite an operation to sabotage an axle, but not out of the question. Those that maintain them surely know what would need to be done to make one fail shortly but not immediately. Could it be any easy task to sabotage a wheel bearing by removing the grease, and is it easily accessible, like a car bearing? These are things we should be told, if so.

I wonder if any of this has been discussed in the NTSB briefings, or if they found such evidence, would they even tell us?

I do agree that we have infrastructure entropy occurring in our roads, bridges and tunnels. It just follows that the same degradation is happening in our railroads and there are insufficient funds to repair any of it. We certainly have to address the most common failure points and go for them first, but I do not even see that happening.

Seems like if we had more pipelines vs transporting oil by train that it would also be much safer, to bad no one has thought of this.🤔🙄

Pretty normal and just a coincidence. Someone posted gubment stats showing there are 400 million derailments a day and or course I trust gubment data, so nothing to see here.

a reply to: mtnshredder

Like an extra large pipeline that could be abbreviated as XL?

a reply to: charlyv

I have a couple friends who work for a railroad. Hot wheel bearings are fairly common. They are not easy to get to. Replacement is to jack up the car and replace the entire "truck". A "truck" is the wheels and axels on the front or rear of a car. They then rebuild the "truck".

originally posted by: JIMC5499
a reply to: charlyv

I have a couple friends who work for a railroad. Hot wheel bearings are fairly common. They are not easy to get to. Replacement is to jack up the car and replace the entire "truck". A "truck" is the wheels and axels on the front or rear of a car. They then rebuild the "truck".

Yes, that sounds like how they would repair it, but the question would be how easy would it be to externally damage a wheel bearing so that it fails?

What is going on today as far as serious derailments are concerned, seem to be statistically on the hi rise. All possible causes need scrutiny..

Additionally, what are the mandatory safety checks that need to be done on each and every rail car? How often and Who is legally responsible for ensuring that it is done?

The public needs to know this and there has to be a watchdog organized to keep everyone informed. I would think that this would be the responsibility of Secretary Pete Buttigieg and also the NTSB.

Where is the public demand for an answer and what can be done if they do not respond in a responsible and timely manner? Just what can the public do to force a response out of them. They work for us but we have no authority?

a reply to: charlyv

The answers to all your questions are easily accessed in FRA regulations and incident databases. That information is open to the public and can be researched without too much effort.

Short answer is that the individual railroads are responsible for all the maintenance and testing. There used to be many federal inspectors who would conduct frequent spot checks to keep the railroads honest. In today's corporate America that has been determined to be 'unresonable' and the numbers have been decimated. It was just few years ago that the appointed head of the FRA was an actual railroad ceo.

Some industries are regulated for a reason.

originally posted by: asabuvsobelow
Okay what is with all the Train derailments ?

This is starting to seem purposeful , All of these derailments in this short window cant be coincidence.

In order to downplay the concern over toxic substances leaking, and leeching into the ground water when a train derails, Trans Secretary Peter Buttigieg says over 1,000 trains derail in America every year....approximately 3 per day.

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