Train Carrying New F-150s Derails!

[Thinbluef150]

https://khqa.com/news/local/train-carrying-new-vehicles-derails-in-northern-ralls-county

Anyone see this yesterday!? This would be just my luck. Looks like my truck was on a Norfolk Southern train in MO yesterday. I‘m praying it wasn’t on there....

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[Merccat]

Nooooooooooo!!!

 

[Merccat]

Anyone see this yesterday!? This would be just my luck. Looks like my truck was on a Norfolk Southern train in MO yesterday. I‘m praying it wasn’t on there....

Hopefully not and it does look like the majority of the rail cars remained upright on or close to being on the tracks with just a dozen or so getting munched up. Still going to be a delay.

 

[UGADawg96]

yeah, there are a lot of F150s in that mess.

 

[Djlee1592]

Oh noo

 

[GolfR]

Ford needs to send a computer chip recovery team STAT. Hopefully those trucks were registered donors!

 

[IconicTremor]

I posted this in the facebook groups yesterday. Thats my local news station and the derailment is not far from me. I have a friend who's a state police officer of that way. I sent him a text this morning asking if he had more details on the train.

 

[Thinbluef150]

I posted this in the facebook groups yesterday. Thats my local news station and the derailment is not far from me. I have a friend who's a state police officer of that way. I sent him a text this morning asking if he had more details on the train.

Please let us know if you hear anything about it!

 

[IconicTremor]

Hopefully not and it does look like the majority of the rail cars remained upright on or close to being on the tracks with just a dozen or so getting munched up. Still going to be a delay.

From what I understand from employees of NS, every vehicle on that train has to be scrapped. Even if the car was unharmed.

 

[UGADawg96]

That track is twerked too. How long does this type of thing take to clean up... weeks ?

 

[IconicTremor]

That track is twerked too. How long does this type of thing take to clean up... weeks ?

We had a derailment a few years back, it takes MONTHS to clean up the train cars. They bulldoze them off to the side and have the track straightened out pretty quick. Then it seems like trains are free to move along the rail just at a reduced speed while people work on the derailment.

That's purely from my observation, I have no idea if that's common or just how it was handled that one time.

 

[UGADawg96]

We had a derailment a few years back, it takes MONTHS to clean up the train cars. They bulldoze them off to the side and have the track straightened out pretty quick. Then it seems like trains are free to move along the rail just at a reduced speed while people work on the derailment.

That's purely from my observation, I have no idea if that's common or just how it was handled that one time.

Makes the most sense for sure!

 

[UGADawg96]

From what I understand from employees of NS, every vehicle on that train has to be scrapped. Even if the car was unharmed.

Maybe that is an insurance requirement ?

 

[Thinbluef150]

So after doing a little research, I see that Ralls County (the location of the derailment) is in far eastern MO. PalsApp shows that the final destination of my truck is Birmingham, MO (which is in far western MO near Kansas City). So I’m hoping that means my truck wasn’t on that train. My window sticker says CONVOY so I would imagine that it would be getting on a truck after leaving Birmingham. Does this sound right? Someone please calm me down lol.

 

[IconicTremor]

So after doing a little research, I see that Ralls County (the location of the derailment) is in far eastern MO. PalsApp shows that the final destination of my truck is Birmingham, MO (which is in far western MO near Kansas City). So I’m hoping that means my truck wasn’t on that train. My window sticker says CONVOY so I would imagine that it would be getting on a truck after leaving Birmingham. Does this sound right? Someone please calm me down lol.

I know nothing about NS shipping info, but in your screen shot above it states it was "delivered 8/2" so I think your estimation here might be correct.

The only good that would come from this if your truck was on that train and you are able to confirm it was lost, you would be able to build a new truck and I believe they give customers Priority 1 for these situations which means its built substantially faster than most retail orders. Someone just posted in another thread they got priority 1, ordered their truck mid July, had a VIN by end of July, and build week is coming up here in a few weeks.

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