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By:Richard Burdick
Dates:5/5/2008 - 5/18/2008
Album Info:delrailment on the thayer sub on5/5/2008
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derailment
Title:  derailment
Description:  covered hoppers piled up under the underpass.....these hoppers were carrying plastic pellets....it is believed that the derailment began at the bridge that these hoppers had just traversed
Photo Date:  5/5/2008  Upload Date: 5/5/2008 4:09:20 PM
Location:  Mammoth Spring, AR
Author:  Richard Burdick
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derailment 2
Title:  derailment 2
Description:  in the distance a boxcar and a procor tanker lie upside down in a campground....accordong to the news authorities,the tanker was initially carrying butane but at the time was empty....local schools were evacuated as a precuation
Photo Date:  5/5/2008  Upload Date: 5/5/2008 4:10:05 PM
Location:  Mammoth Spring, AR
Author:  Richard Burdick
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derailment 3
Title:  derailment 3
Description:  tank car and NS boxcar upside down...tanker was empty at the time of derailment but is used for transport of butane
Photo Date:  5/5/2008  Upload Date: 5/5/2008 4:10:17 PM
Location:  Mammoth Spring, AR
Author:  Richard Burdick
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derailment 4
Title:  derailment 4
Description:  UTLX tanker on the ground.....it appears this tanker laid down the rail from the bridge in picture 1 over a quarter mile....after careful inspection I concluded this tanker was also empty due to the lack of placards displayed
Photo Date:  5/5/2008  Upload Date: 5/5/2008 4:10:31 PM
Location:  Mammoth Spring, AR
Author:  Richard Burdick
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Views:  240   Comments: 0
2 weeks later #4
Title:  2 weeks later #4
Description:  a loaded coal train passes by the wreckage with a SD-70MAC and an ES44AC
Photo Date:  5/5/2008  Upload Date: 5/18/2008 7:55:34 PM
Location:  Mammoth Spring, AR
Author:  Richard Burdick
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Locomotives:  BNSF 9777(SD70MAC)
Views:  374   Comments: 0
2 weeks later.......
Title:  2 weeks later.......
Description:  2 weeks have gone by and 3 hoppers and one tank remain
Photo Date:  5/18/2008  Upload Date: 5/18/2008 7:54:10 PM
Location:  Mammoth Spring, AR
Author:  Richard Burdick
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Views:  179   Comments: 0
2 weeks later # 2
Title:  2 weeks later # 2
Description:  one of the hoppers and a bunch of wheelsets have just been dragged off to the side
Photo Date:  5/18/2008  Upload Date: 5/18/2008 7:54:35 PM
Location:  Mammoth Spring, AR
Author:  Richard Burdick
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Views:  161   Comments: 0
2 weeks later # 3
Title:  2 weeks later # 3
Description:  its beginning to looks like a railway scrapyard here
Photo Date:  5/18/2008  Upload Date: 5/18/2008 7:55:06 PM
Location:  Mammoth Spring, AR
Author:  Richard Burdick
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Views:  165   Comments: 0


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