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Train Derailment in Avoyelles Parish today.
Posted on 5/7/25 at 6:42 pm
Posted on 5/7/25 at 6:42 pm
Some crazy stuff. The amount of emergency vehicles and heavy machinery out there was almost something out of a movie.
We definitely don’t get stuff like this around here much.
Train Derailment with Images
This post was edited on 5/7/25 at 7:25 pm
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Posted on 5/7/25 at 6:45 pm to The Drizz
What a train wreck
Posted on 5/7/25 at 6:47 pm to The Drizz
Sounds like a real pain in the caboose...
Posted on 5/7/25 at 6:47 pm to The Drizz
Hope they can get back on track!
Posted on 5/7/25 at 6:48 pm to profdillweed
Posted on 5/7/25 at 6:49 pm to The Drizz
No injuries. Good to hear.
Posted on 5/7/25 at 6:49 pm to The Drizz
Corman derailment finna eat
Posted on 5/7/25 at 6:55 pm to The Drizz
Look at Avoyelles getting some publicity!
Posted on 5/7/25 at 7:04 pm to SallysHuman
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Hope they can get back on track!
Let’s see if they can engineer something. Hopefully there are no major electrical conductors around the crash site.
Posted on 5/7/25 at 7:14 pm to The Drizz
I remember one in Olla/Urania back in the 80's.
I seem to also remember one in Winn parish but I'm not sure... long after I vacated the area.
Seems the region is cursed.
I seem to also remember one in Winn parish but I'm not sure... long after I vacated the area.
Seems the region is cursed.
Posted on 5/7/25 at 7:18 pm to 214
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Sounds like a real pain in the caboose...
ETD now but it doesn't have the same ring to it.
Posted on 5/7/25 at 7:30 pm to The Drizz
I knew a guy that got ran over by a train messed up his left side really bad, he’s all right now
Posted on 5/7/25 at 7:35 pm to The Drizz
DEI strikes again
Posted on 5/7/25 at 8:23 pm to jaytothen
Some Avoyelles lawyer popping champagne right now without even knowing the facts.
Posted on 5/7/25 at 8:29 pm to I20goon
[quoteI ]seem to also remember one in Winn parish but I'm not sure... long after I vacated the area.
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Probably not the one you're referring to but back in the forties or thereabouts a Kansas City Southern freight train derailed at the Big Creek trestle near Dodson. The railroad hired a guy to watch the wreck until it could bring in equipment. The people around there got him drunk and looted several boxcars. People in Dodson had enough Pet brand evaporated milk and Gold Medal flour to last them for years.
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Probably not the one you're referring to but back in the forties or thereabouts a Kansas City Southern freight train derailed at the Big Creek trestle near Dodson. The railroad hired a guy to watch the wreck until it could bring in equipment. The people around there got him drunk and looted several boxcars. People in Dodson had enough Pet brand evaporated milk and Gold Medal flour to last them for years.
Posted on 5/7/25 at 9:24 pm to OldmanBeasley
I seem to remember reading that the KCS Bridge over the Atchafalaya in Simmesport used to carry both cars and trains on one deck before a new vehicular only bridge was built in the early 1970s. I think there was some kind of red light system that warned cars when a train was coming so they wouldn't end up on the bridge at the same time as the train. That's my Avoyelles Parish Railroad fun fact.
Posted on 5/7/25 at 10:03 pm to Obtuse1
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ETD now but it doesn't have the same ring to it.
On the railroad we call it FRED.
fricking rear end device
Posted on 5/7/25 at 10:07 pm to jaytothen
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DEI strikes again
More like TreeEI
Apparently there was a tree over the tracks after last night’s storms.
Posted on 5/7/25 at 10:09 pm to The Drizz
That’s somewhere up north, right?
Posted on 5/7/25 at 10:18 pm to The Drizz
Damn, that is not a minor derailment, either!
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