Grain car accident at Tacoma - Whoops!

[Pete Sakes]

I just heard that there was a "situation" at the Temco grain elevator at Tacoma and there is grain on the ground and a car (maybe more than one, I don't know) on its side. D'oh!!

[ANDREWAMTRAK]

I knew something was up, i heard the dispatcher giving an emergency form B over the radio.

[Dave_L]

Tacoma blogger Kevin Freitas caught some photos of the overturned cars:
http://i.feedtacoma.com/KevinFreitas...ck-street-001/

[Bob]

Wow, that is quite the derailment. When I saw the title I was thinking "So they derailed another grain car at the elevator, big deal, happens all the time... get the rerail frogs out and put it back on..."

However, this is a lot more serious than I expected.

[mrmoose]

That's almost downtown. By the glass museum.

[ANDREWAMTRAK]

bout 1/2 mile

[ES44AC]

Just saw on the news about a collision in the Tacoma yard on Q13, as stated on the news that two trains collided or two locomotives collided, anyone got any info? they showed a GP40 (ex GP30) tilted a bit.

[mrmoose]

What's goin' on down there!! Talk about a nightmare! Trains still gettin' thru, Amtrak and all?

[ES44AC]

The mains are not affected, according to the news, a switching job in the yard collided with a southbound U.P. stack.

[ES44AC]

http://www.q13fox.com/news/kcpq-0615...,4801231.story