Richmond freight train wreck blocks Richmond-Newport News Amtrak service
A freight train westbound from Newport News to Richmond derailed east of the Fulton yard near Darbytown Road in Henrico County at 6:10 a.m.
Five cars came off the tracks, hitting a single car standing on an adjacent rail line.
No one was injured in the accident and no hazardous material was released, said CSX spokesman Bob Sullivan.
“We’ve got crews there and we hope to have a track back in service later this afternoon or early this evening,“ Sullivan said.
The accident has interrupted Amtrak passenger service between Richmond and Newport News, the national rail passenger corporation said. Amtrak runs two trains daily in each direction between Richmond and Newport News on the CSX tracks.
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If we want a first class rail system then we need seperate tracks for passenger trains like China is building.
Slightly off topic, but look at any road map and you will see all the roads that lost money in 2008 and every year since they started making roads. People cry about $30 billion spent on Amtrak in the last 30 years but have no problem with the $1.9 TRILLION spent on roads in the same period. Divide VDOT’s FY2010 budget of $3.47 billion by 7.769 million Virginians and you’ll find the per-citizen subsidy to roads in our fair Commonwealth. Consider the billions of dollars it would take to repair years of backlogged and overdue maintenance and the subsidies grow exponentially. Consider again all the externalized costs of the road system, everything from buying a car, gas, insurance to collision costs, injuries and the 40,000 Americans who are killed by cars annually and the costs become staggering.
Slightly off-topic but this is one of my favorite maps:
http://subsidyscope.com/transportation/amtrak/
“Forty-one of Amtrak’s 44 routes lost money in 2008 with losses ranging from nearly $5 to $462 per passenger depending upon the line, according to analysis by Pew’s Subsidyscope”
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