Train Wreck

Carrie received this from a friend of hers named Sarah. I thought it was worthy of posting simply because the photos are awesome, almost surreal. And frightening too, which is what today is all about.


Thanks to PTD reader Robert Gray for sending the enclosed pictures. I am sure many of you may have read about the train wreck in New Brighton last Friday night. It was on the news everywhere! Our house is on the hill above the scene of the accident and we were startled by an explosion, right after a phone call from our daughter, Susie, who was watching the news. We went to the window in our upstairs hall and we couldn't believe the magnitude of the flames. "Big Rock," a landmark on the river bank was destroyed. No one seems to know the origin the rock or how long it has been there, but many a kid has jumped into the river from that spot. Fortunately, no one was hurt and there was minimal property damage, other than to the railroad.

I know that you all know about this incident but thought that I would forward these pics to you of the Norfolk Southern train derailment.....

They were taken Saturday Afternoon from the point in Patterson Heights. You can even see the Ethanol burning in a couple of the tankers....

The bridge above the railroad bridge is the NB. BF bridge. You can see that this is right on the NB shore. The fire was out on Sunday and they have put all of the wrecked cars ( 24) in Big Rock Park. They have had to cancel some activities that were going on there this week-end.

The Borough is asking for pictures of Big Rock Park as they probably want to give them to the railroad so that they could put it back into the same condition as it was before they put all of their equipment and those wrecked tankers there.

They are going to clean the Ethanol out of the tankers, then cut them up, ship them by rail to God knows where. There is a lot of quipment all over 2nd Ave. and up by the railroad tracks wherever they can find room. All of the TV stations in Pgh. have at least two trucks there. Our little old NB made the national news.