CSX train jumps tracks and crashes into garage in Niagara Falls; no injuries reported

WKBW TV | Buffalo, NY
WKBW TV | Buffalo, NY
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Published 2024-07-22
It was just around 8:30 a.m. Monday when the CSX train jumped the tracks and crashed into a garage at the corner of 35th Street and Seneca Avenue.
All Comments (21)
  • @DanielPRails
    That guy just won the CSX funded lottery! DANG!
  • @mrmrlee
    Gonna have to swap out the yellow sign for a "Watch for Locomotives" sign instead.
  • @THE_IRON_HORSE
    If the engineer wasn't on the engine, they probably didn't know how close the engine was to the end of the track, I don't really think the RCL failed
  • @SPUPRR
    Radio control locomotives strikes again. Fairly common now day as the railroads are cutting cost by having untrained personnel running locomotives like a Toy RC car. Most people are not locomotive engineers or even Conductors operating these things.
  • @gustavsmith3398
    Raise your hand if you think that a 3500# car did ANYTHING to slow down that 400,000# locomotive. Was the home built BEFORE the tracks were installed, or were the tracks built first? What city planner allowed a home that close to the railroad? Or vise-a-versa?
  • @jasonligo895
    Why would either the track be laid toward a home or why was the home built at the end of a track?
  • @BNSF4706
    Dang, glad everyone's alright.
  • @northernliving2387
    I hope the home owner takes a lot of pictures and hires an attorney and a building inspector.
  • @CSXEK
    It’s a Y they use that to turn around a train and this is why I hate locomotives not manned railroads need to stop trying to save money and put safety 1st
  • @James_Knott
    A car wouldn't do much to slow down a locomotive. As the guy said, it's upwards of 200 tons, compared to a couple of tons for the car, if that.
  • @bowlinerailfan
    Why did that locomotive have to turn around? It's a switching locomotive (an EMD GP38-2 to be exact). They're designed to go backwards and forwards through the yards to move freight cars to where the cars are needed. There should have been no need to use that wye track to turn it around.
  • @onazram1
    Time to revamp that wye, it's happened twice now that's enough..