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CSX 8888 incident. The CSX 8888 incident, also known as the Crazy Eights incident, was a runaway train event involving a CSX Transportation freight train in the U.S. state of Ohio on May 15, 2001. Locomotive #8888, an EMD SD40-2, was pulling a train of 47 cars, including possibly two cars loaded with hazardous chemicals, specifically molten ...
Unstoppable. (2010 film) Unstoppable is a 2010 American disaster action thriller film directed and produced by Tony Scott, written by Mark Bomback, and starring Denzel Washington and Chris Pine. It is based on the real-life CSX 8888 incident, telling the story of a runaway freight train and the two men who attempt to stop it.
The current company, established in 1992, is a separate entity from the original Allegheny Valley Railroad, which was established in the 1850s. That line, affiliated with the Pennsylvania Railroad system, followed the present company's tracks to Arnold and continued beyond, along the right upstream (southeastern) bank of the river to Oil City.
Precautionary evacuations are underway after a freight train derailed in southeast Pennsylvania on Monday morning. Just before 5am EDT, a 40-car CSX train derailed while operating on tracks owned ...
SWP GP11 2002, which was used in the movie Unstoppable, at the Scottdale train station. The Southwest Pennsylvania Railroad ( reporting mark SWP) is a shortline railroad that operates in southwestern Pennsylvania. The SWP uses rail branches that were acquired from CSX Transportation (originally the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad) and Conrail ...
A Norfolk Southern freight train derailed on Saturday morning in Pennsylvania. The train went off the tracks in Lower Saucon Township, close to Allentown. Dispatchers in Northampton County said ...
The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating a derailment involving three Norfolk Southern trains in eastern Pennsylvania on Saturday, NTSB spokesperson Sarah Taylor Sulick said.
Stanton is an unincorporated community in Jefferson County, in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. History. Stanton was originally called Belleview, and under the latter name was laid out in 1844. Stanton was the name of the post office at Belleview. A post office was established under the name Stanton in 1862, and remained in operation until 1911 ...