Posted on 07/08/2012 7:02:58 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Metro officials on Saturday said excessive heat was the probable cause for a train derailment Friday in Prince Georges County.
Investigators said a heat kink due to extreme high temperatures and direct exposure to sunlight likely caused the rails to expand, resulting in the derailment.
The derailment was reported on the inbound stretch of the Green Line near the West Hyattsville Station around 4:45 p.m.
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“It seems like this would be a noticable problem in many other places...”
This has never happened in NYC, so far as I can remember. There are miles and miles of outside tracks in NY, and while there have been problems in the winter with switches freezing, I don’t ever remember a derailment caused by heat.
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