2/8/2018
WASHINGTON (Feb. 8, 2018) — The National Transportation Safety Board will meet to determine the probable cause of an accident involving two freight trains in Roswell, New Mexico in 2015; the board will also issue safety recommendations aimed at preventing similar accidents in the future.
This looks like another misaligned track switch train collision.
When: March 13, 2018
Webcast: A link to the webcast will be available shortly before the start of the meeting at
http://ntsb.capitolconnection.org/
Source Link:
https://www.ntsb.gov/news/press-releases/Pages/NR20180208.aspx
Preliminary Report DCA15MR008
On Tuesday, April 28, 2015, at about 06:23 a.m. mountain daylight time, westbound Southwestern Railroad (SWRR) freight train MCLOCRL 127A with 9 locomotives and 79 cars collided with standing SWRR train LSWC-002127I, the Roswell local, on the Carlsbad Division near Dexter, New Mexico. Train MCLOCRL 127A struck the Roswell Local after traveling through a misaligned switch at the east end of Chisum siding, where the Roswell local had previously worked.
https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/AccidentReports/Pages/DCA15MR008_Preliminary.aspx
WASHINGTON (Feb. 8, 2018) — The National Transportation Safety Board will meet to determine the probable cause of an accident involving two freight trains in Roswell, New Mexico in 2015; the board will also issue safety recommendations aimed at preventing similar accidents in the future.
This looks like another misaligned track switch train collision.
When: March 13, 2018
Webcast: A link to the webcast will be available shortly before the start of the meeting at
http://ntsb.capitolconnection.org/
Source Link:
https://www.ntsb.gov/news/press-releases/Pages/NR20180208.aspx
Preliminary Report DCA15MR008
On Tuesday, April 28, 2015, at about 06:23 a.m. mountain daylight time, westbound Southwestern Railroad (SWRR) freight train MCLOCRL 127A with 9 locomotives and 79 cars collided with standing SWRR train LSWC-002127I, the Roswell local, on the Carlsbad Division near Dexter, New Mexico. Train MCLOCRL 127A struck the Roswell Local after traveling through a misaligned switch at the east end of Chisum siding, where the Roswell local had previously worked.
https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/AccidentReports/Pages/DCA15MR008_Preliminary.aspx
