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August 19, 2013 Brake Tampering on 2 of 3 Cars Causes Bethel Vermont Train Derailment Crash Bethell Vermont. Three grain cars had two of three cars brakes deliberately released, apparently an act of felony vandalism or sabotage. It caused the cars to run away, rolling past the end of a spur and derailing causing a crash with $30,000 in damage. In Canada, the Lac-Mégantic derailment destroyed the center of small town when oil cars ran away when their air brakes were released without explanation, and exploded when they derailed and burned. Terrorism was ruled out in that case.
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Police: Brake Tampering Caused Bethel Vermont Train Derailment | Valley News
Two of three cars had brakes released, if third had been released, it would have caused disaster
, August 19, 2013 Bethel — Three grain cars derailed Saturday in Bethel and nearly rolled over an embankment behind Green Mountain Feed, in a case that is being investigated as felony vandalism, police said yesterday. The brakes of two of the three train cars were allegedly tampered with, according to police, and the derailment caused an estimated $30,000 in damage. Vermont State Police responded to a train crash near the intersection of Routes 12 and 107 shortly before 11 p.m., and found that three cars had rolled through the end of a spur and derailed. It was determined that the brakes holding two of the three cars in place had been disengaged, causing two cars, with a combined weight of half-million to 1 million pounds, to roll back into the third. All three were pushed off the tracks as a result. If the brakes on the third car had been disengaged as well, police said in a news release, it could have had “catastrophic consequences.”
Police investigat
e vandalism on train in Bethel | Burlington Free Press | burlington freepress. comhttp://www. burlingtonfreepress.com/ article/20130818/NEWS02/ 308180025/Police-investigate- vandalism-on-train-in-Bethel? nclick_check=1 two loaded grain cars had been tampered with when the brake systems holding the cars in place had been disengaged. The two cars, with a combined weight of over 500,000 pounds, rolled from a position north of a third grain car and crashed into it.force of the collision pushed the southernmost car through a stop and off the end of the rails. The grain cars stopped short of an embankment at the back of a residential property, police said.Hudson said there could have been “catastrophic consequences if the brakes on the third car were not engaged.”Episode 106- CSX Grain Train G404 with Loads from MQT Shortly after departing Wyoming Yard, the crew discovered a brake problem with the trailing unit, CSX 7582.- Aug 18, 2013 · Vermont State Police say they are investigating major damage caused during a train collision after vandals disenaged brakes on two loaded grain cars on a ...
- BETHEL, Vermont — Vermont State Police are investigating vandalism as the possible cause of two loaded grain cars colliding with a third car and derailing. The ...
- Aug 19, 2013 · Rail maintenance crews responded and determined that someone had tampered with two loaded grain cars. The brake systems ... Vandalism derailed train...
- Aug 19, 2013 · The train derailed in downtown Lac ... grain and cereals are now endangered ... more than an hour and requiring both the automatic brake (train ...
- ... a running locomotive cannot be relied on the hold a train by its air brakes, ... calamity is to be taken with a grain of ... My train of thought was derailed ...Brake Tampering Bethel Vermont Train Derailment Notes Crime
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