Submitted by James Futrell

These photos were at a train derailment in Fulton, Ky.  The derailment (we know now) started at a broken rail the car derailed and took out some MOW equipment stored on an adjoining track.  As the car continued under the bridge it took out several switches and rail before coming to a stop south of the bridge.  In the preceding morning pictures you can see a group in the lower left corner of one shot assessing the situation before cleanup began.  I’m told that the north bound Amtrak had just cleared this track before train 194 used it going south and derailed.  The amount of work performed between 8 AM and noon is nothing short of amazing.  It looks like chaos but everyone has probably done this many times before and hit the ground running.  The 5 or 6 train backlog was gone by noon.

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