Watch Now: 9 Norfolk Southern train cars derail in downtown Roanoke

[mahatmakanejeeves]

Well, no, you don't get to watch them derail. You get to see workers cleaning up the derailment site. The derailment occurred right in front of the passenger station.

There's a video in the article. I can't link to it.

Someone is not getting a Lexus with a big red bow on top for Christmas.

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Watch Now: 9 Norfolk Southern train cars derail in downtown Roanoke

BY HENRI GENDREAU The Roanoke Times Dec 16, 2020



Nine Norfolk Southern train cars came off the tracks early Wednesday morning in downtown Roanoke.

Heather Rousseau, The Roanoke Times

Nine Norfolk Southern train cars came off the tracks early Wednesday morning in downtown Roanoke.

The derailment happened about 2:15 a.m. as the cars were leaving the company's rail yard downtown, according to Norfolk Southern spokesman Jeff DeGraff.

The cars were carrying "a mix of automobiles and asphalt material in tank cars," he said in an email.

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Claytor Henderson, 11, and his mother, Summer, came to downtown Roanoke on Wednesday morning to check out the wreck. Norfolk Southern said nine of its train cars derailed early Wednesday.

Heather Rousseau, The Roanoke Times

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[underpants]

1. Bow - red. Lexus - Green. Please.

[True Blue American]

2. My Dad worked on the Norfolk and Western

Railroad. My FIL worked on Southern Railway.My Grandfather worked on the Detroit, Toledo and Ironton. Henry Ford promised if Grandpa came back to work,( He was laid off when Henry bought the RR to haul his cars.) He worked 50 years. Memories.

https://trn.trains.com/railroads/railroad-history/2006/06/norfolk-southern-merger-family-tree

We called them N & W, DT&I .

[Blue Owl]

3. Symbolic of the tRump train -- off the rails!!!

[elleng]

4. Rail 'buff' 'Secretary' Buttieigieg likely interested in such.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

5. Trainorders: NS Train derails in downtown Roanoke

Eastern Railroad Discussion > NS Train derails in downtown Roanoke
Date: 12/16/20 05:29
NS Train derails in downtown Roanoke
Author: JPB

Any idea what the symbol of this NS train is? Perhaps 12Z to Binghamton?

https://www.wfxrtv.com/news/local-news/roanoke-valley-news/nine-cars-from-norfolk-southern-train-derail-in-downtown-roanoke/