Colton Train Wreck : 25 Hours Later 

The rail workers I talked to onsite said they were not allowed to comment, understandably. I couldn't find any news on the Federal Railroad Administration website, but they are investigating. It was interesting to find out that San Bernardino County has a far higher number of these incidents than the rest of the nation. Not sure if that reflects some sort of negligence, or if it's just a reflection of the volume of freight that passes through SB County. It is the largest county in the country, and it's close to our biggest ports, so I have a feeling the higher number is just due to higher volume. If I ever do find a report on the causes I'll be sure to post a comment.

@@SoCalCreature apparently this is the biggest rail bottleneck in the nation too. hard to get new land rights to fix this especially in the hate-capitalism-state.

It's going to take a few months for an investigation. The NTSB should come out with a preliminary finding of what they believe to have happened within a few weeks on the cause, but the final report / cause could take months...

@@Flyby-1000 understandable. I'll keep an eye out for that. Thanks.

Hello. Just FYI, I just posted a follow up video showing the security cam footage of the front of the accident as well as a lot of close ups of the damage 12 days after the accident. If interested go to ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-DK50KJTd0V4.html Thanks.

You have much more knowledge about these things than I do, that's for sure. Good eye.

Yeah I just saw it and noticed something not normal. Good video btw, never knew the wreck was that bad. Thought it was like 3 boxcars or something

Ah good. Someone on site said it was all going to the landfill and just lumping it in with the insurance claim. 90% of it did look salvageable.

@@SoCalCreature I don't know where it will end up, it's just not free to the public. There are numerous companies who specialize in recovering damaged freight for the railroads. It's not often that such efforts are well documented so you may want to keep an eye on the situation, if only out of curiosity.

Hello. Just FYI, I just posted a follow up video showing the security cam footage of the front of the accident as well as a lot of close ups of the damage 12 days after the accident. If interested go to ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-DK50KJTd0V4.html Thanks.

@@SoCalCreature I'll check it out.

@@SoCalCreature they had another derailment this morning east Pepper. All private property.

Hello. Just FYI, I just posted a follow up video showing the security cam footage of the front of the accident as well as a lot of close ups of the damage 12 days after the accident. If interested go to ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-DK50KJTd0V4.html Thanks.

After I published this I saw some aerial footage taken on the day of the accident, before everything got moved around the site. You can see that the engine with the most damage was the 3rd in line, and that the car that had the end ripped off was the one attached to that engine and that smashed into the side of the engine. I also notice that two of the cars had hit the columns supporting the fly over, which I didn't notice when I was on site. It's pretty lucky that this didn't mess up those columns and shut down the flyover. That was an expensive project.

At the time I was there it had been 25 hours since the derailment. I talked to someone who lived there and they said the clean up crew had been there all night. So it would have been difficult. Other than the scrap pile on the sidewalk it was almost all still bundled, so you pretty much need a forklift. I don't think anybody would be able to get more than a few dozen pieces if they were doing it by hand.

From what I could see it looked like all of the freight cars were carrying lumber. So it was a lot. Most of it looked like it was still secured in the cars and still bundled so it wouldn't be too difficult to forklift.

Hello. Just FYI, I just posted a follow up video showing the security cam footage of the front of the accident as well as a lot of close ups of the damage 12 days after the accident. If interested go to ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-DK50KJTd0V4.html Thanks.

I couldn't tell you. I don't have any idea what the chances of repairing one of those are. I'm guessing that the engine that looked like a parallegram is beyond repair though.

@@SoCalCreature You'd be surprised what they can fix on these locomotives... They have specialty repair shops all across their network for accidents like these... Those machinists are miracle workers... Highly underrated career field.... Kinda like mine...Commercial Aircraft Maintenance Technician.....

Hello. Just FYI, I just posted a follow up video showing the security cam footage of the front of the accident as well as a lot of close ups of the damage 12 days after the accident. If interested go to ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-DK50KJTd0V4.html Thanks.

They're getting scrapped on site. Pass by there often and that's what's currently happening

@@weirdfan88 only the back ends look damaged and everythine else looks fine, but they are scrapping both anyway?

Engines are not also cars? Whoops. haha. I thought units was synonymous cars. In that case, what is the term for mixed units where the power unit carries payload, like a Metrolink power/passenger unit? Glad you like the close ups.

@@SoCalCreature It's called a locomotive. There were 3 locomotives and 13 cars involved.

Hello. Just FYI, I just posted a follow up video showing the security cam footage of the front of the accident as well as a lot of close ups of the damage 12 days after the accident. If interested go to ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-DK50KJTd0V4.html Thanks.