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Reply to "CSX Pope Creek Branch (Maryland) Wreck photos"

Originally Posted by Sam:

Thanks for posting. I wanted to see the scene but figured it would be difficult to access.

 

Was it heading North or South? If it was going south I figured it would be difficult to reach the engines with the heavy lift wreckers.

 

Do you think the heavy rain caused a washout?

 

Sam

 

The train was heading south.  For Chalk Point or Morgantown, I don't know.  The actual site was very inaccessible.  The water in the photo is a pond/swamp on the west side of the road.  The Collington Branch stream is on the east side of the road.  The washout was apparently at the location of a culvert under the track.  When I was there, there were beaver swimming in the pond and a CSX person asked me "do you have a beaver problem around here."  (I answered yes).   We had had about 4-inches of rain in about 36 hours.   CSX built a gravel road across someone's lawn to get to the site.  Washington Gas was also on site, as there is a gas line along the ROW.  There were two environmental companies on site and three ladies from Tri-State Bird Rescue out of Delaware who said they were on retainer from CSX to monitor the wildlife.  RJ Corman had heavy equipment on site in less than eight hours.  Portable johns, cleaning stations, generator and lights, etc..  A very impressive piece of work.  I understand a south bound drag went through this afternoon.    The locomotives had to have two couplers replaced and one wheel had to be changed out before they could be moved to Benning yard.

 

Bob

 

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