Train derail - Corsicana

[Tmag]

Laying on its side, high water layers it over. Two rescued according to news.

[More Liberty]

I've heard Corsiccana took a rain beat down.

[lovetohunt]

Corisicana got 20 inches.

[BTLowry]

What I saw said tracks were washed out

If you wouldn't drive a car through high water, why the heck would you try a train?


The floods earlier in the year washed out a county road bridge around the corner from the house. Pretty sure after seeing how high the creek was today that it will be gone again

[quackerback]

Somebody is gonna be in trouble. No way that train should have gone thru without a spotter.

[drwilliams]

The train could have been stopped and then washed out. When you get flash flood warnings on a train that doesn't always mean that one area is prone to washing out so there for not the crews fault. Now if they were in what is called a critical area they are supposed to run restricted speed and stop short of that wash out or standing water. There are a lot of variables that go into running a train in situations like this. Either way hope the crew is ok and going home to there families.

[Jaker]

I heard they came around the corner and saw it and pulled the emergency brake but obviously it didn't stop in time.

[BTLowry]

I heard they came around the corner and saw it and pulled the emergency brake but obviously it didn't stop in time.

Makes sense knowing it takes about a mile to stop the average freight train

However you would think they should have been going a lot slower than normal