Freight train emergency stop and possible derailment reported, Thomasville NC
TrafficA freight train traveling near milepost 10.2 made an emergency stop after the crew felt the rear of the train drop and lose air pressure. The crew reported possible derailment and began safety procedures. Response teams were contacted and dispatched to the area near Thomasville, NC.
Audio|Source: Thomasville Area NS Rail
02:34
Transcript:
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Emergency Emergency Emergency P-O-5 and emergency mile post 10.2 eM.
00:26
And there's Dample this page, over.
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P05, Dample.
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5, go ahead, over.
00:33
Sir, we are in emergency milepost 10.2m.
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Running about 18 mile an hour, about notch 3,
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about 3 or 400 amps.
00:48
I felt the rear sit down in the bottom and got a tug that didn't really felt that's all it was because I got a bunch of empties and then a couple loads on the rear and then I felt another tug and then I looked up in the EOT's was down and so I bailed before it shot but I'm pretty sure we're on the ground.
01:09
Great thing you on the ground, okay.
01:11
He said, Mubble is 10.2.m.
01:16
Yeah, it ends about the 10.2, 10.3 and the rear is about the 9.h.m.
01:29
Let me make some calls and get some people headed that way.
01:33
Because I'll turn the ground, just walking it over.
01:37
Because I got a bunch of empties and I got two loads on the very rear and I felt them sit down.
01:43
You felt, okay, I gotcha, I got you.
01:45
Alright, let me make some calls and we get some people headed that way over.
01:48
About that time, that was it.
01:51
Step on you. What's found?
01:54
I said I felt the two anthies set down in the bottom about the 9.6 when I come out of the bottom I felt those set down and then I felt another tug and I know that wasn't right.
02:10
Okay and air's not coming back up.
02:13
All right, let me get some people headed that way.
02:15
He said, head in at the 10.2, you figure the rear is around, what you said, is 9.6? Yeah, the rear is the 9.6, I just cleared across.
02:25
Alright, let me get some people headed that way.
02:27
The conductor walking it.
02:28
Yeah, he's fixing the hop down.
02:30
All right, let me call the train, man.
02:34
There you go.
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Thomasville, NC 27360
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