How many train derailments in 2023 ?

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You all do realize there are on average, over 1400 train derailments per year in the US alone right?
That kinda touches on a question I asked my wife this morning as we drove the morning feed route. We cross rr tracks twice. I asked her, “You reckon these derailments are a new thing or they’ve just never made the “big news” before?” She didn’t have a response. I imagine it wasn’t really a question, but more just me thinking out loud.
 

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https://railroads.dot.gov/accident-...g/train-accident-reports/train-accidents-type
Off by almost, not quite, but almost half.
From 2003 to 2022 there were 14,598 derailments according to USDOT Federal Railroad Administration. I plugged those date because the USG uses calendars correctly by doing crazy things like JAN 2003 to DEC 2022 which means it really 20 years.
This is a real source in case the sheeps are skird. AVG is 729ish per year.

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That kinda touches on a question I asked my wife this morning as we drove the morning feed route. We cross rr tracks twice. I asked her, “You reckon these derailments are a new thing or they’ve just never made the “big news” before?” She didn’t have a response. I imagine it wasn’t really a question, but more just me thinking out loud.
It's very rare a derailment causes deaths/injury. These aren't anything new as far as derailments go. Very few end up the way the Ohio one did. For anyone to call the water drinkable, clearly has no business being allowed to ever talk about anything ever again. I know just enough about chemistry and environmental norms to be dangerous to anyone to argue with me. I'm sure some of the Vinyl Chloride (highly cancer causing chemical) was spilled into the soil and leeched into the water. I will not be surprised if cancer deaths increase drastically for the people that live nearest to the spill over the next decade. Not seen any info on what the ppm test the EPA has done in the water. They probably won't release that info to the public for years. Granted this derialment could of gone far, far worse. Since there was a fire caused by the derailment the first responders probably did the right thing in burning off what was already leaking. Had all 20 of the Vinyl Chloride cars exploded, and burned off...oh boy, hope you have enough body bags...FYI burning Vinyl Chloride produces Phosgene gas, which in turn also produces Chlorine gas. But Phosgene...ya don't want to inhale any of that. (It was used in WWI as chemical warfare. Its 6x more deadly than Chlorine Gas and is more deadly than Mustard gas. Phosgene gas accounted for 85% of all chemical warfare deaths during WWI. With it being 3.5x denser than air it wouldn't have just blown away with the wind. It would of stayed low to the ground moving downwind, giving anyone downwind for miles enough concentration to inhale just enough to kill within a couple of days. Wellll.....if the winds were pretty low....Now for us Okies, our high winds would probably of saved us lol
 

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https://railroads.dot.gov/accident-...g/train-accident-reports/train-accidents-type
Off by almost, not quite, but almost half.
From 2003 to 2022 there were 14,598 derailments according to USDOT Federal Railroad Administration. I plugged those date because the USG uses calendars correctly by doing crazy things like JAN 2003 to DEC 2022 which means it really 20 years.
This is a real source in case the sheeps are skird. AVG is 729ish per year.

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Lol. now thats funny. Get real man. Unfortunately that is not the correct statistic. Either you genuinely don't know that your missing data on your selection process when doing that on their site or you are cherry picking data. I assume its the former. But anyway....Sorry but wrong. But turns out I too was wrong....but I was just low in my average. See below and attachment. Below is the REAL source.

The Bureau of Transportation Statistics (Which is the agency designed to investigate this sort of thing) records 54,539 train derailments between 1990 to 2021 in the U.S, an average of 1,704 per year
Not even once in the past 30 years has it ever been under 1000 per year. If you do just the past 20 years, its still over 1500 derailments per year. Since I was closer to the actual average....Check mate, I WIN

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Site will not let me upload the actual Excel file I am afraid. So was forced to take a screenshot of it. Here's the link:
Ignore the graph and click the other tab on the Excel file for actual numbers as seen in the screenshot.
https://www.bts.gov/content/train-fatalities-injuries-and-accidents-type-accidenta
 
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While some of those numbers are fairly shocking, I have to wonder just how many of those derailments don't really do any harm at all. I've watched videos of railroad employees working to get a train car's wheels back up on the track.

In other words, how many of those derailments involve just one or two cars, and do they even do anything other than just go off the rails?
 

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don't know where to put this .. have been getting all sorts of crap posting important news in wrong places. been gone for two years .. formerly you don't start a new thread if there's another similar thread going?

Oklahoma train derailment
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My granddaughter is sitting in her car on the other side of this train derailment in Okla. That very morning my wife and I felt we should pray for the safety of our family, because we live near this train track in Ok. God answers prayer.


And transporting Crude Oil by rail car is MUCH SAFER than by PIPELINE? Amazing what propiganda can convence the unwashed masses of, if repeated often enough?
 

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And transporting Crude Oil by rail car is MUCH SAFER than by PIPELINE? Amazing what propiganda can convence the unwashed masses of, if repeated often enough?
isn't that the truth .. where are all the do good greenies when BAD stuff happens resulting in reduced safeties to cut costs. not a train guy, any truth to rumors train companies quit using a maned caboose?

if an axle is on fire .. train conductor in front has no way of knowing if track sensors are ignored and/or not working. a maned caboose likely would smell problems like axles on fire that likely caused East Palistine disaster.
 

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Several decades ago, crews were pulling out bad RR ties and replacing them with new ties. Now the maintenance is almost nonexistent based on the appearance of the railroad tracks. Ties are rotted out, rails are a bit bent and so bad that trains have to slow down dramatically to go over these rails.
during a time of war, a lot of war materials are going to be transported across country and we are't' prepared. Food goes over the tracks as well. Things aren't like they used to be profit takes the lead.
 

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