Amtrak 49 Derailment in Batavia, NY - 8/3/94 - Pt. 2

[MTLBshnik]

Состав вынесло на стрелке?

[smartassstevie]

they just let people walk around a rr accident sight wearing nothing but t-shirt shorts and sneakers? i'd be sent home for showing up to work like that.

[smartassstevie]

a lot of scrap money

[WaitWhatWasThat1]

Where abouts was this... I live by town and country in batavia

[howardkevinm]

oh ya that tire at 1:07 looks normal lol uh dont think so.

[five0fan]

How'd the derailment happen?

[Lifty4ever]

the over weight full dome car

[howardkevinm]

Flat head rail. NTSB blamed Conrail for the derailment because of the condition of the track.

[mdamttc199]

Thanks for sharing this footage! It's rare to come across photos from this derailment, let alone video like this.

A lot of people don't realize that this wreck was not to blame on bad track or a bad wheel set on the Amtrak MHC car. Both were found to be within specifications, and the NTSB stated the cause to be a "dynamic interaction between the rail and the MHC car."

This wreck also spelled the end for the dome coaches on Amtrak. Too bad!

[Planeguy13]

why was this the end of dome cars for amtrak?

[howardkevinm]

uh the NTSB report states otherwise:

The National Transportation Safety

Board determines that the probable cause

of the derailment was the fact that

Federal and industry guidelines do not

currently address flattened rail head

conditions, due to an insufficient understanding

of the risk that flattened rail

poses to train operations.

[mdamttc199]

Did you read the entire thing?

[howardkevinm]

had nothing to do with the dome car.

[mdamttc199]

Agreed. I never said it did. The MHC car is a differernt story.

[railmogul2]

was anyone killed?

[sasilv1129]

No. But over 100 were injured, some seriously. Most of the seriously injured were in the dome car.

[railmogul2]

yeah, ur vid got me thinking, I read the accident report last night. Apparently a flattened railhead caused it. Lousy conrail...

[Bigkarch]

i am not surprized that the cars that were barely on the tracks did not even go over.

[furryfurball1221]

yes it was on #4 i think

[furryfurball1221]

is that a signal tower at 2:30, what about the locomotives?

[sasilv1129]

Yeah thats a signal tower. Both locomotives remained upright and didn't even derail. There should be footage of them somewhere on one of the four derailment videos I have.

[kmothersil]

Man this looks a train wreck I've seen before. The dome cars is trashed really badly. How many passenger cars were scrapped?

[sasilv1129]

The last nine cars on the train were scrapped, from the dome car back to the last car.

[kmothersil]

Damn that's hard on the equipment there.

[1985MANAmericana]

Not really. In 1994 Amtrak had, for example, 100 more sleepers than it does today.

[kmothersil]

That is true.