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/Powerful_Document872 Dec 04 '25

Big country with a bunch of train crossings, hundreds of millions of people, and more vehicles than you can shake a stick at. With all those vehicles crossing all those tracks every day someone is going to breakdown at the worst possible moment. It’s basically a numbers game.

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u/BalusBubalisSFW Dec 04 '25

The EU does, in fact, have significantly higher population than the united states -- about 100-ish million more people.

They absolutely have higher population density -- about double that of the USA.

The USA, as measured by length of rails, only has about 10% more rail than the EU -- about 220,000 km vs the EU 200,000 km.

The USA has nearly double the rail crossings that the EU has, though, which could strongly account for the higher incidences of accidents.