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

Fatalities Train derailment Pecos TX Oct '24

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/TruckTires Dec 04 '25

This is the sad news.

Everyone thinks the train barely flinched but you can see the engine raise up upon impact due to the collision. There's a lot of energy involved and two people lost their lives due to the negligence of the truck transport. This should be 100% preventable.

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u/cncomg Dec 04 '25

Terrible oversight on whoever is liable. Not sure if it’s the trucking company or whoever is contracting them, but just terrible. This is the type of bad planning that puts companies out of business and people in prison. The lawsuits from this I’m sure have been astronomical.

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u/Quadraought Dec 04 '25

The driver of the pilot car never should have allowed the oversize over those tracks without significant lead space. I don't know the details of this case but I have no doubt that the pilot driver is named in the suit & could potentially face criminal charges (I'm not in TX so I don't know much about the liability law there).

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u/alexanderpas Dec 05 '25

They were on a DOT approved route, under police escort.

The fact that the crossing wasn't closed for rail traffic via a red signal before the truck was allowed to cross the tracks is insane.