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[KevinKorell]

Allentown, PA Daily Caller, 3/2/24:

 

 

  Norfolk Southern Freight Train Derails Into Riverbank    

 

 

A Norfolk Southern freight train derailed Saturday morning into a Pennsylvania riverbank, according to CBS News.

 

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[KevinKorell]

NBC News, 3/2/24:
 

 

  Pa. train derailment leaves cars on riverbank and in water; no injuries or hazardous materials reported   

 

 

The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating the collision and derailment of three Norfolk Southern trains near Easton, Pennsylvania, Saturday morning. The incident left railroad cars along a riverbank and at least one partially in the river itself.

 

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[KevinKorell]

[CNJRoss]

Trains News Wire

 

Three-train NS incident unfolded in less than a minute, NTSB investigator tells township council

 

By Trains Staff | March 7, 2024

 

 

Nine cars, two locomotives derailed in Saturday accident in Pennsylvania

 

LOWER SAUCON TOWNSHIP, Pa. — A National Transportation Safety Board investigator has filled in town officials on additional details of last weekend’s incident collision and derailment involving three Norfolk Southern trains, saying a total of nine railcars derailed in the incident, WFMZ-TV reports.

 

Ruben Payan, who is leading the NTSB team looking at train operations, signals, and train control, mechanical systems, and human performance, spoke to the township council at a meeting Wednesday night, March 6, about the incident that sent locomotives, diesel fuel, and plastic pellets into the Lehigh River on Saturday [see “Three-train NS accident in Pennsylvania …,” Trains News Wire, March 2, 2024]. The  incident happened quickly, he said: an eastbound train stopped at a signal was rear-ended by an intermodal train, derailing three intermodal cars into an adjacent track; less than a minute later, a westbound train hit those cars, sending the locomotives of that train into the river and derailing six cars.

 

 

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[CNJRoss]

Trains News Wire

 

NTSB looks at NS rules, procedures, and training as investigation of three-train Pennsylvania incident continues

 

By Trains Staff | March 26, 2024

 

Agency releases preliminary report on March 2 incident in Lower Saucon Township

 

The site of the March 2, 2024, collision involving three Norfolk Southern trains in Lower Saucon Township, Pa. Lehigh County Emergency Management with NTSB notations

 

WASHINGTON — The National Transportation Safety Board is looking at Norfolk Southern rules, procedures, and crew training relating to train handling as it continues its investigation into the collision and derailment involving three trains that occurred March 2 in Lower Saucon Township, Pa., according to the preliminary investigation report issued today (Tuesday, March 26).

 

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Seven crew members were transported to a local hospital, treated for minor injuries, and released; NS estimated damage at $2.5 million. Train 24XH101, which had proceeded through a signal requiring it to operate at restricted speed, was traveling about 13 mph at the time of the initial collision; train 19GH501, which had no restriction, was traveling about 22 mph at the time of the second collision.  . . .

 

 

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