VIA grade crossing accident - Mallorytown Ont

VIA train #60, hit a truck stuck with a low boy trailer on the Quabbin Hill Rd. railway crossing, in Mallorytown ON. The impact split the truck in two. It sent the low boy trailer flying 180 degrees and derailed the locomotive, a F40PH-2. The train stopped a quarter of a mile down the track. I heard about the accident on my scanner while waiting for VIA #60 to pass me in Cardinal Ont. I sped down HWY 401 and arrived 25 minutes after the initial accident occured. Mile 138 CN Kingston Sub. July 15 2008

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Autos & Vehicles

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• Train
• crash
• accident
• VIA
• Rail
• CN
• Mallorytown
• F40PH-2
• Kingston
• Sub.

[RailFanDavid]

looks like he broke the trailer in two.

[ConrailSD70MAC]

He did! The F40PH-2 derailed right after, riding on the ties and ballast on the north track.

[3Star420]

I live in the brick house in the background i was first to see everything, i made the phone calls to 911 and everything .... since this accident i have had to stop 3 more truckers from driving over this crossing ... there is a sign right there stating that you cannot drive over them .... i will straight up beat a trucker down if he wants to try it again... that's me in the blue shirt yellow hat

[geomodelrailroader]

Lowboys are not allowed on crossing because they can get stuck

[robertgift]

Lowboy trailer high-centered on the crossing?

Any advance warning signs about clearance.

Still, I'd expectrucker to see what was ahead and check it out.

[kenworth2010]

yea right not in a millons years jack ass trucks will be around for many years to came and many many more to come get use to it fuck face

[wheels069]

Does anybody know the unit number of the engine

[NoceboEffect]

We also didn't have AC for about 4 hours, until train 44 came and supplied us with electricity. After arriving to Gananoque and taking our bus to Montreal, it took us 3 hours to get there. By the time we got to my uncle's house, it was 11:30. In total, it took us 15 hours to get to Montreal. It was a 6 hour delay.

[NoceboEffect]

I was on train 60 when the accident happened. We were in the middle, so I think we felt more the train breaking to a stop than the impact itself. People in our car had minor whiplash, a man behind us said his left arm hurt, and he didn't look well, so they took him to the hospital for risk of having a heart attack, and a woman not far from us had hurt her ankle and was having troubles walking. There was also a girl from a camp group I believe that hit her head, but she remained in the train.

[6060steamfreak]

Truckers don't give a shit about the crew and the passengers in trains.They are selfish and act like robots!

[xfaiiry]

Why do truck's exist? They ruins our roads,bridges,pollute,derails our trains and makes a lot of awful noise.Let's band the semi's once and for all!