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Related: About this forumWatch Now: 9 Norfolk Southern train cars derail in downtown Roanoke
Well, no, you don't get to watch them derail. You get to see workers cleaning up the derailment site. The derailment occurred right in front of the passenger station.
There's a video in the article. I can't link to it.
Someone is not getting a Lexus with a big red bow on top for Christmas.
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Watch Now: 9 Norfolk Southern train cars derail in downtown Roanoke
BY HENRI GENDREAU The Roanoke Times Dec 16, 2020
Nine Norfolk Southern train cars came off the tracks early Wednesday morning in downtown Roanoke.
Heather Rousseau, The Roanoke Times
Nine Norfolk Southern train cars came off the tracks early Wednesday morning in downtown Roanoke.
The derailment happened about 2:15 a.m. as the cars were leaving the company's rail yard downtown, according to Norfolk Southern spokesman Jeff DeGraff.
The cars were carrying "a mix of automobiles and asphalt material in tank cars," he said in an email.
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Claytor Henderson, 11, and his mother, Summer, came to downtown Roanoke on Wednesday morning to check out the wreck. Norfolk Southern said nine of its train cars derailed early Wednesday.
Heather Rousseau, The Roanoke Times
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Watch Now: 9 Norfolk Southern train cars derail in downtown Roanoke
BY HENRI GENDREAU The Roanoke Times Dec 16, 2020
Nine Norfolk Southern train cars came off the tracks early Wednesday morning in downtown Roanoke.
Heather Rousseau, The Roanoke Times
Nine Norfolk Southern train cars came off the tracks early Wednesday morning in downtown Roanoke.
The derailment happened about 2:15 a.m. as the cars were leaving the company's rail yard downtown, according to Norfolk Southern spokesman Jeff DeGraff.
The cars were carrying "a mix of automobiles and asphalt material in tank cars," he said in an email.
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Claytor Henderson, 11, and his mother, Summer, came to downtown Roanoke on Wednesday morning to check out the wreck. Norfolk Southern said nine of its train cars derailed early Wednesday.
Heather Rousseau, The Roanoke Times
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Watch Now: 9 Norfolk Southern train cars derail in downtown Roanoke (Original Post)
mahatmakanejeeves
Dec 2020
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underpants
(186,612 posts)1. Bow - red. Lexus - Green. Please.
True Blue American
(18,161 posts)2. My Dad worked on the Norfolk and Western
Railroad. My FIL worked on Southern Railway.My Grandfather worked on the Detroit, Toledo and Ironton. Henry Ford promised if Grandpa came back to work,( He was laid off when Henry bought the RR to haul his cars.) He worked 50 years. Memories.
https://trn.trains.com/railroads/railroad-history/2006/06/norfolk-southern-merger-family-tree
We called them N & W, DT&I .
Blue Owl
(54,726 posts)3. Symbolic of the tRump train -- off the rails!!!
elleng
(136,043 posts)4. Rail 'buff' 'Secretary' Buttieigieg likely interested in such.
mahatmakanejeeves
(60,922 posts)5. Trainorders: NS Train derails in downtown Roanoke
Eastern Railroad Discussion > NS Train derails in downtown Roanoke
Date: 12/16/20 05:29
NS Train derails in downtown Roanoke
Author: JPB
Any idea what the symbol of this NS train is? Perhaps 12Z to Binghamton?
https://www.wfxrtv.com/news/local-news/roanoke-valley-news/nine-cars-from-norfolk-southern-train-derail-in-downtown-roanoke/
Date: 12/16/20 05:29
NS Train derails in downtown Roanoke
Author: JPB
Any idea what the symbol of this NS train is? Perhaps 12Z to Binghamton?
https://www.wfxrtv.com/news/local-news/roanoke-valley-news/nine-cars-from-norfolk-southern-train-derail-in-downtown-roanoke/