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Utica is on the NoHospitalDowntown Upstate New York Derailment Map, becuase accidents keep happening and Utica has an active Switching Yard, which hazmat-carrying CSX cars traverse daily!
Utica, NY
Much is spent on safety, but accidents by their nature cannot be avoided. We recently contacted the Utica Observer-Dispatch to remind them of a recent Huge Rail Explosion, just down the tracks in Oneida, which they reported on.
Downtown Utica is no stranger to derailments either...
Learn more about Downtown Utica's Train Tracks & Facilities.
April 28, 1992 - CSX freight train derailment in Utica...
April 29, 2017 - Newspaper recounts the incident, UticaOD: This Day In Hisory...
1992, 25 years ago, Derailment: "Five youngsters – ranging in age from 9 to 14 – are charged with causing the derailment of an eastbound Conrail freight train last week. Utica Deputy Police Chief Nicholas Yagey says the five boys piled tires, chairs and a street sign with a cement base on the tracks near the Goldbas Playground. The debris got caught under the front wheels of the front car,
As another precuation, in the same year, another case of vandalization led to a Train Derailment With 74 Injuries.
Our Leaders have Warn us of... Should train cars and tankers carrying oil, propane, or toxic chemicals derail in downtown, it's very probable that a 1/2-mile or 1-mile evacuation radius would have to be established. Long tanker trains pass Union Station routinely...
And another 1990 video show a Busy Train Morning in Utica, NY
Downtown Utica, NY, July 21, 2015 - Not on the mainline, but Union Station struck by rail car...
Longer video here, Union Station Video
A rail diaster incinerates the downtown of Lac-Megantic, on July 6, 2013.
Downtown Utica, NY, 1990 - Here's a newspaper story from March 30, 1990 showing a derailed Conrail freight train...
Building a train derailment timeline, of an Upstate New York rail corridor running through downtown @CityofUtica Just adding this one from 1990, more at https://t.co/VlDbLrtuc2 pic.twitter.com/Pn9Bk1l1RZ
— #NoHospitalDowntown (@NoHospitalDwtn) August 19, 2018
As stated elsewhere, tracking derailment news is a full time position, worthy of a research staff! Obviously the new @MVHealthSystem hospital crew didn’t have one, but we persist... pic.twitter.com/y4lov2siZi
— #NoHospitalDowntown (@NoHospitalDwtn) August 19, 2018
Better Resolution: Downtown Utica Conrail Derailment, March 1990
Return to Upstate Train Derailment map.
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