California Zephyr #6 departing Roseville (Derails one day later)

Published 2024-01-31
You read the title. This is the train in the news right now. It derailed in Colorado because of a milk truck.

Trucker was a 31 year old man from Alaska. He is unharmed šŸ˜”

Engineer was airlifted to Platte Valley Hospital (if you are seeing this, I wish you well sir ā¤ļø)

3/69 passengers were sent with injuries to Platte Valley Hospital.

The rest of the 66 passengers got a lodge to stay in.

As for the train itself

816 (GE P40DC)(Lead) (Totaled, scrapped after accident)
41 (GE P42DC) (1st and only trail)(survivor)

The superliners (that doesnā€™t include the baggage car, were taken away by BNSF locomotives after the accident)

All Comments (9)
  • @P42_foamer
    One more thing i like to point out That crack on the lead unit is an erie premonition of whats gonna happen to it tomorrow.
  • @P42_foamer
    Man. Im praying for the hospitalized Engineer. Its just kinda upsetting that the P40s are in their final years of service on amtrak. And then gets destroyed in a similar fashion to what happened in 1999.
  • @2010train1
    Amtrak 816 & Amtrak 41 are getting scrapped