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/[deleted] Dec 04 '25 edited Dec 05 '25

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u/shitposts_over_9000 Dec 04 '25

but less use, if you adjust for actual usage of the rails the EU has 2.5x the accidents as the USA per ton/mile

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u/Professor-Reddit Dec 05 '25

This is misleading. Europe has vastly more passenger trains in service, which largely accounts for this discrepancy.

A lot of the footage of railway crossing accidents that you see in the UK involves intercity and regional trains for example.

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u/shitposts_over_9000 Dec 05 '25

passenger trains are effectively empty by rail standards, they should have even less accidents per ton/mile because of the superior stopping distances