Metro North Train Derails In The Bronx (New York, Hudson: 2013, vs.)

[Chava61]

Metro-North Train Derails in the Bronx, at Least 4 Killed: Sources | NBC New York

[myspoonistoobig]

Just saw this in the news. Terrible tragedy

RIP

[laryenhilllvr]

I'm terribly sorry to hear that! Hopefully they figure out why/how it happened.

[AlfieBoy]

Originally Posted by NYT

At least four people were killed after a Metro-North Railroad train derailed Sunday morning in the Bronx along the Hudson River, officials said.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/02/ny...erailment.html

[yodel]

That's terrible and shocking. So many derailments this year. The one in Spain killed more than 70 people.

[SeventhFloor]

What causes trains to derail?

[Kefir King]

Push vs. Pull.

The engine was at the back pushing. This seems to me a bad idea.
Think about it, if an engine at the front derails, the locomotion will stop because it cannot run in dirt...all it will have propelling it will be momentum.
However with a locomotive at the rear, if a front car derails the locomotive will continue to push for a much longer time, relatively speaking.

Think of all the people trying to return to NYC today from the North. It will be a cosmic mess.

Geez, 100 yards from the station? You'd think the train would have drastically slowed down?

[rlrl]

i wonder if the curve from N-S to E-W had anything to do with it

[rlrl]

i just read the article fully, it did have to do with the curve

[SeventhFloor]

Wow just feet from the Harlem River.....if any silver lining at all came out of this, good thing the train did not fall into the river.