R3 Accident

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R3 Accident; Train hits Dirt Bike or Quad
Topic Started: Jun 11 2009, 05:04 PM (368 Views)
Frankford5905	Jun 11 2009, 05:04 PM Post #1
Advanced Transit Fan Posts: 233 Group: Admin Member #2 Joined: February 16, 2005	Just received a call from a my Friend Jim Fialho who's provided photos for PTV in the past that his R3 was involved in an Accident. The train ran over either a dirtbike or a quad and burst into flames under the trucks of a silverliner III. As far as i know the owner ran away right before impact. Attached to this post: R3REC.jpeg (90.16 KB) R32.jpeg (22.59 KB) R33.jpeg (25.37 KB) R33.jpeg (25.37 KB) R34.jpeg (21.68 KB) R35.jpeg (81.79 KB) Edited by Frankford5905, Jun 11 2009, 05:10 PM.



Septa_kid	Jun 11 2009, 08:03 PM Post #2
flxie!!!! Posts: 2,040 Group: Members Member #2,467 Joined: March 31, 2008	wow. just wow... Who hit who first? Did the train hit a stationary bike, or did a driver try to Play SUPERMAN with a train? Either way that bike rider was in a bad place in a bad time...



TRANSIT_FREAK	Jun 11 2009, 08:24 PM Post #3
Simpsonized! Posts: 2,646 Group: Members Member #865 Joined: August 2, 2007	I noticed in the last pic the pans were dropped. Is this a must for every train that runs over a person or a clearly noticable object?



redarrow5591	Jun 11 2009, 09:22 PM Post #4
Light Rail and Railroad Historian Posts: 938 Group: Members Member #29 Joined: April 23, 2005	TRANSIT_FREAK Jun 11 2009, 08:24 PM I noticed in the last pic the pans were dropped. Is this a must for every train that runs over a person or a clearly noticable object? Standard Operating Procedure. In a strike like that where something is pinned, a arc from a motor can ignite the fuel. Dropping the pans trainline do reduce the risk.



silverliner_2	Jun 12 2009, 12:19 AM Post #5
Cab signal supporter. Railroad engineer. Girl chaser. Transit fan. Totally unpredictable! Posts: 321 Group: Members Member #36 Joined: June 2, 2005	Frankford5905 Jun 11 2009, 05:04 PM Just received a call from a my Friend Jim Fialho who's provided photos for PTV in the past that his R3 was involved in an Accident. The train ran over either a dirtbike or a quad and burst into flames under the trucks of a silverliner III. As far as i know the owner ran away right before impact. I know what train that was. It was a Silverliner III/II/IV three-car set. I worked train Q418-11 today, and passed that equipment at Newtown Jct. as it headed towards Elwyn a bit past 1:30pm. We got held at Neshaminy long enough and then had to work Woodbourne Yard picking up cars, and then let that same set go east towards West Trenton before we departed Woodbourne. SEPTA-2 held him at Trent until I got by with my train, and then turned him loose to head back to Center City. I was about 20 miles further east (between Belle Mead and Manville) when I heard that train make the emergency radio call. Way to mess up an evening rush. Great shots, Jim! Dumb idiot ATV-er. He's lucky he ran....but he'll still be in trouble if they find him.... The trespassers have been worse between Neshaminy Falls and Langhorne this year. One fatality already, and near misses almost daily. All that space next to Track 1 to walk in (even though they shouldn't be there anyway), but no, let's walk in the gauge of the tracks instead!



Tritransit Area	Jun 12 2009, 12:29 AM Post #6
Transit Enthusiast Posts: 2,242 Group: Admin Member #4 Joined: February 17, 2005	Oh man! As if the R3 doesn't have enough problems already... Thankfully nobody was hurt, though.



CACrafter88bk2504	Jun 12 2009, 10:35 PM Post #7
Transit Historian Posts: 1,324 Group: Members Member #51 Joined: November 10, 2005	On the "other R3(Media), anyone notice the trestle bridge over the Blue Route(west of the Swarthmore stop)? I think that this bridge still has grafitti all over it(trackside). The Media branch has 4 trestles & if anyone ever got caught on those tracks runnning over those trestles & has any contact with a moving train should simply write out his or her will before he or she leaves his or her place of residence because rest assured, they'll never make it home again. The trestles @ Gladstone, west of Swarthmore, & the one between Media & Elwyn, are trestles raised above in the air with no wiggle room to run or hide if a train is coming. There is a fourth one. Is this trestle in the Clifton-Aldan area?



silverliner_2	Jun 13 2009, 08:28 PM Post #8
Cab signal supporter. Railroad engineer. Girl chaser. Transit fan. Totally unpredictable! Posts: 321 Group: Members Member #36 Joined: June 2, 2005	CACrafter88bk2504 Jun 12 2009, 10:35 PM On the "other R3(Media), anyone notice the trestle bridge over the Blue Route(west of the Swarthmore stop)? I think that this bridge still has grafitti all over it(trackside). The Media branch has 4 trestles & if anyone ever got caught on those tracks runnning over those trestles & has any contact with a moving train should simply write out his or her will before he or she leaves his or her place of residence because rest assured, they'll never make it home again. The trestles @ Gladstone, west of Swarthmore, & the one between Media & Elwyn, are trestles raised above in the air with no wiggle room to run or hide if a train is coming. There is a fourth one. Is this trestle in the Clifton-Aldan area? The fourth trestle is the one between Angora and Fernwood. Cobbs Creek, to be precise. And the other three trestles mentioned above are over Darby Creek, Crum Creek, and Ridley Creek, respectively. Edited by silverliner_2, Jun 13 2009, 08:29 PM.



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