Friday, July 12, 2013

Locomotive Fires

The Quebec oil explosion disaster was supposedly caused by a parked locomotive which just suddenly caught fire due to an oil or fuel leak. How often does this happen?



Train locomotive catches fire in downtown Spokane | KREM.com Spokane

ABC News·2 days ago   
A fire aboard a parked freight train filled with oil may have set in motion the catastrophic accident that torched a Quebec town and left 13 dead and as many…
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January 23, 2008: NS 963, light engines, the 6th unit NS 6199 catches fire when the traction motor / armature fails and the roller bearing seizes. The 4th ...
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Jul 09, 2013 · The chairman of a company whose train barreled into a small town told a newspaper its brakes may have been ... See massive fire aftertrain …
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Firefighters responded to a train fire in Swanton Wednesday night. The train is stopped between Wilkins Road and State Route 295. Norfolk Southern says the front ...
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At 5:41 a.m. this morning, the CCFD received a report of a fire on a Railroad car near Nipton, CA in the desert on Nipton Desert Road. At 5:43 a.m. Clark County Fire ...
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We were called out for a locomotive fire a couple of weeks ago. I have to say, in my 14 yrs. of doing this, this was a first for me. A couple of things about…
Criminal probe opened in Quebec train crash
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Jul 09, 2013 · Investigators zeroed in on whether a fire on the train a few hours before the disaster set off a deadly chain of events


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 A locomotive fire has stopped a Union Pacific train near Mermet Springs in Metropolis, Illinois.
The conductor says an alarm went off and he saw smoke and flames coming from the train's second locomotive. Only the conductor and the engineer were on board at the time of the fire. No one was injured. There is no word yet on what might have caused the fire.The train was pulling 105 cars and was hauling coal


Locomotive Has Flash Fire Near I-75

Tuesday, April 30, 2013
Chattanooga firefighters responded to a train fire this afternoon. Battalion Chief Rick Boatwright said one of the locomotives “blew an oil line” and experienced what appeared to be a “flash fire.” The train was located on a section of track that runs parallel with Lee Highway near I-75.
Chief Boatwright said the fire was out when the first firefighters arrived on the scene. No injuries were reported.
Chief Boatwright said the fire resulted in roughly 10 to 15 gallons of oil being spilled on the tracks.

articles.chicagotribune.com/2012-06-27/news/chi-locomotive-fire...
Jun 27, 2012 · A fire that started inside the engine of a locomotive in a train yard southwest of the Loop has been controlled this afternoon after three people required .


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HAMPTON, Iowa --- A diesel fuel leak was the apparent cause of a fire that broke out on a Union Pacific train in Hampton Monday evening

  • wildfiretoday.com/tag/railroad
    A railroad locomotive started a fire on the McAlester Army Ammunition Plant in southeast Oklahoma on Monday which spread into a stockpile of railroad ties.
     Wildfire Today has been following since February, 2010, a railroad company in Michigan has agreed to pay $3.3 million to settle a suit filed by a landowner over damage caused by a 2008 wildfire.  This comes after the company, Lake State Railway in Michigan, pleaded no contest on January 2, 2011 to criminal charges of operating a locomotive without a spark arrestor and was ordered to pay $294,752 in restitution and a $1,000 fine after their railroad engine started the fire that burned 1,300 acres of forest, several homes, and other buildings near Grayling, Michigan. The same locomotive engine was suspected of starting 11 other fires in Alpena, Michigan on April 5, 2010.
    On September 17, 2010 the Grayling Game Club filed a civil suit against the railroad. During the fire in 2008, 500 acres of the club’s property burned, in addition to several cabins. Michigan law allows for the club to recover triple the value of the property destroyed, which was estimated to be over $1 million. The club was represented by Southfield, Michigan attorney Paul F. Doherty. Mr. Doherty told Wildfire Today that Lake State Railway paid $3.3 million to settle the claims of the Game Club and two members who lost cabins in the fire.
    Often, railroad companies get away with starting wildfires. Few are investigated, and even fewer result in settlements or prosecution.


    A railroad locomotive started a fire on the McAlester Army Ammunition Plant in southeast Oklahoma on Monday which spread into a stockpile of railroad ties. The 20-acre fire extended along one mile of railroad track.


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