UPS package delayed due to train derailment?

[The_Architect]

LOLwut? Guess I won't get my stuff for a while.. :realmad::skeptical:

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[CtownCyclone]

Haven't seen that one pop up for me yet...

 

[yler4cy]

I had inclement weather show up this summer when we had that stretch of hot weather, but not a derailment.

 

[aeroclone08]

Saw this one online shortly after a UPS plane crashed in Birmingham, AL earlier this year.

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[SuperTrooper]

LOLwut? Guess I won't get my stuff for a while.. :realmad::skeptical:

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KS to CA? Damn! That's one long train!!!

 

[coolerifyoudid]

Searched to find out where the train derailment was so I did a search. Are derailments really this common?

I smell a marketing ploy:
"If you want safety, ride Greyhound. Only half of our passengers are deranged and packing heat, and that's a promise."

Crews continue coal clean-up after train derailment near Unionville - HeraldTimesOnline: Free HTO Content

Pictures:Train derailment in Sanford - Orlando Sentinel

 

[wxman1]

Haha heard about this on the news the other day...who knew packages were shipped on trains.

 

[Farnsworth]

hope it wasn't breakable.

 

[cyclones122]

hope it wasn't breakable.

Me too, because this is probably happening to it right now:

[video=youtube;4DUWmeRLVRw]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DUWmeRLVRw[/video]

 

[nhclone]

Quite a few get shipped by rail, especially when going across country. More cost efficient than by tuck. The routes they use for intermodal traffic use much nicer track with higher standards than the tracks used mostly for hauling grain and such as we have mostly across Iowa. Derailments are much less common on those tracks. Does happen though.

 

[CapnCy]

I ordered a camera once and it was delayed and then I realized it was in a truck that crashed and te driver died....had some guilt about the day or two I was mad it was late when I didn't know that had happened.

 

[cdekovic]

I once worked for UPS back in the 80s. I worked in Denver, Co and one time there was a train derailment in Glenwood Canyon and three or four trains cars ended up in the river. We spent three or four days going through all the soggy packages and trying to salvage anything we could, repackage and send on. Much of it was destroyed as non-salvageable. It was a mess. Paid out a lot of insurance claims. It's amazing what people ship.

 

[stormchaser2014]

How does a package go from CA to KS back to CA?

 

[burn587]

I once worked for UPS back in the 80s. I worked in Denver, Co and one time there was a train derailment in Glenwood Canyon and three or four trains cars ended up in the river. We spent three or four days going through all the soggy packages and trying to salvage anything we could, repackage and send on. Much of it was destroyed as non-salvageable. It was a mess. Paid out a lot of insurance claims. It's amazing what people ship.

Seems like you're baiting us for another story....please continue.

 

[CysRage]

How does a package go from CA to KS back to CA?

The same way someone bumps a thread that hadn't had a post in over a month :smile: