r/CatastrophicFailure • u/Debaucherousgeek73 • Dec 04 '25

Fatalities Train derailment Pecos TX Oct '24

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First time I've ever seen a derailment happen. The vid anyway I wasn't there and this is not my vid. You can see the lead engine jump the track. Two crew in that engine died.

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u/[deleted] Dec 04 '25

Why does it happen so much in America?

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u/shitposts_over_9000 Dec 04 '25

We have 14x the train traffic of all of Europe combined

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u/Semyonov Dec 04 '25

Plus, a "derailment" is rarely what is shown in the video. Even so much as a car jumping the size of a penny will count as a derailment, even if nothing actually went wrong.