July 2013 Spuyten Duyvil derailment
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A waste container spilled on the tracks
shortly after the accident |
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| Date | July 18, 2013 |
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| Time | 8:29 p.m. EDT (12:19 UTC) |
| Location | Between Spuyten Duyvil and Marble Hill stations, Bronx, NY |
| Coordinates | 40°52′33″N 73°55′01″W / 40.87590°N 73.91681°WCoordinates: 40°52′33″N 73°55′01″W / 40.87590°N 73.91681°W |
| Country | United States |
| Rail line | Hudson Line |
| Operator | CSX |
| Type of incident | Derailment |
| Cause | Excessive track gauge |
| Statistics | |
| Trains | 1 |
| Crew | 4 |
| Deaths | 0 |
| Injuries | 0 |
| Damage | US$827,000 |
On the evening of July 18, 2013, a CSX freight train carrying municipal solid waste on tracks of the Hudson Line along the Harlem River Ship Canal in the New York City borough of The Bronx partially derailed between the Marble Hill and Spuyten Duyvil stations. While no one was injured, the derailment caused over US$800,000 in damage and took several days to clean up. Commuter rail service by Metro-North Railroad, which owns the line, was suspended for two weekends in order to fully restore normal operations.
After investigating the accident, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) found it had been caused by the track stretching to an excessive gauge at the point of derailment. It did not fault the crew, instead criticizing Metro-North for failing to maintain the track and surrounding ballast to the point that the track went out of gauge. Later in the year, in a comprehensive safety review after another derailment of a passenger train nearby resulted in the first passenger fatalities in Metro-North's history, the NTSB cited the maintenance shortfall as part of an inadequate "safety culture" at the railroad.
The CSX train left Oak Point Yard near Hunts Point in the South Bronx at 6:30 p.m. that evening. The weather was clear and hot—temperatures were above 90 °F (32 °C), as they had been for the previous three days, enough for the National Weather Service to have issued a heat advisory for the city. A crew of four, an engineer and conductor plus a trainee for those positions, led a consist of two locomotives and 24 flatcars specially modified to carry four large containers of solid waste collected by New York's sanitation department to a landfill in Virginia.
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