Derailment of Amtrak Train No. 21 (The Eagle) on the Missouri Pacific Railroad Woodlawn, Texas, November 12, 1983 PDF Download

Author: United States. National Transportation Safety Board
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Category : Railroad accidents
Languages : en
Pages : 55

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About 10:09 a.m. on November 12, 1983, Amtrak train No. 21 (The Eagle), with 162 persons aboard, derailed near Woodlawn, Texas, while traveling at 72 mph on the Missouri Pacific Railroad. The train was traveling westbound on the single main track when it passed over a section of rail that a repair crew had just installed to replace a broken rail. The break had occurred at a field weld in a length of new continuous-welded, 136-lb RE section, chrome-vanadium alloy. high-strength, vacuum-treated rail, which had been installed in the track about 1 month earlier. The temporary repair consisted of removing a length of the outer rail in a curve and replacing it with a 19-foot 6-inch length of rail bolted in place. The repair insert was a section of used, 136-lb RE section, standard-carbon rail.