*If you're interested in photographing this line, NDW's radio frequency is 160.695 (AAR Channel 39).Thanks for watching!Copyright 2012Note: Please excuse the advertisements. Soon you can take a portable version of the Earth's magnetic field to outer space, Ex-NASA Space Shuttle astronaut has a plan to get humans to Mars fast. CSX local Y101 drops off and picks up cars at the interchange in Defiance three times a week, normally Monday/Wednesday/Friday. 171K views 10 years ago Maumee & Western Railroad Company (reporting mark MAW) was a Class III shortline railroad, located between Woodburn, Indiana and Liberty Center, Ohio. It was scrapped on-site a few years after this 1987 photo. This footage was initially obtained by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. In one case, a video of warped tracks bouncing a train along is implied to show the condition of rail infrastructure in Ohio, and thus the cause of the NS derailment. NDW was acquired by Patriot Rail after it purchased Pioneer Lines in August 2022. Due to the intense loads being forced down on rail tracks, they require intensive maintenance to retain track efficiency. Where there is now rust, weeds and brush, there once were trains. USA TODAY. In reality, the first 52 seconds originally lasted six minutes. In this case it's the Fifth District crossing the Big Four at Cecil, Ohio in the early 1900s. At 8:12 p.m., roughly 18 miles northwest and 42 minutes before the derailment, a security camera at industrial equipment supplier Butech Bliss in Salem, Ohio, captured footage of flames at the bottom of one of the freight cars. A landlocked B&O steel boxcar, compete with the top-side brake wheel, sitting on a short spur track near the Columbus, Ohio airport that had long been cut off from the main. In early April 2021, readers inquired about a viral video titled "Train Tackles Bendy Tracks." ezeRoad US 24 Ohio. In the background is the Lafarge Paulding OH, facility and a customer of the ND&W with inbound fuel and outbound loads of cement. The video also appeared online as "world's worst train tracks." The video was first. and also @TheSun on Twitter. Have you seen other railroads like this in such states of disrepair? Much of the rail line is built on swampy land which contributes to the disrepair of the track. Thanks,-DIB Please note these rules + sidebar or get banned: If this post declares something as a fact, then proof is required Though the ND&W operates on the opposite side of Ohio from East Palestine where the Norfolk Southern train derailed, this hasn't stopped users on social media from rapidly sharing the video as proof of why it happened. else if (displaymethod=="form"){ The crash . Initially, the Ohio Department of Natural Resources had reported 3,500 fish having died in creeks within a five-mile span of East Palestine. Morris, J. C., compiler (December 31, 1902), This page was last edited on 28 February 2023, at 00:50. Mike DeWine's office, water tests taken taken on February 16showed the level of a butyl acrylate below three parts per billion well "below the 560 parts per billion the CDC considers hazardous.".