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Breaking news: A Green Line train derailed near the 55th/Garfield stop, and preliminary reports indicate that several people were injured but none of them critically. According to CBS 2, "One train car continued due south, while another decoupled and veered off to the west." And the Trib notes that "the derailment occurred on elevated tracks, but the cars did not fall to the street," which is now our new nightmare.
Photo via NBC 5
More than 20 people are being treated for injuries at the scene, and 14 people have been taken to hospitals so far.
Green Line trains aren't running from 63rd /Ashland to 55th/Garfield or from 63rd/Cottage to 55th/Garfield. [S-T, CTA, Trib, CBS 2]
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F*ck! I have so much more confidence in CTA now, more so than when I had to emergency evacuate
underground on the blue line a few months ago!
Seriously, WTF!
Another gold star for our Olympic effort, I am sure.
Damn... CTA took a step forward with that earlier story about helping to catch that attempted kidnapper. Now they're two steps back...
margaret, if that's your new nightmare, i wouldn't look at this...
considering a good portion of brown/purple line operators gun it a little too fast around the curves, who hasn't had that nightmare?
Saw this on Drudge Report, pretty scary indeed.
"Harold Barnes, 50, who was in the last car, said he was taking the Green Line to a friend's house on the South Side when he felt a sharp jolt that stopped the train. Then the train started inching forward, he said."
Sounds like the motorman might have disregarded a stop signal, which tripped the brakes, and then he proceeded at a crawl anyway, derailing the train.
This picture is a classic. Love the sign in the background advertising the green line rehab.
And Tower18 is named after a little piece of architecture on the El, are you not?
i was talking to a cta employee this weekend who told me the train derails a little more than we know ... the cta pays a lot of money to keep that crap out of the paper, along with the 10 suicides that occur between christmas and NYE every year.
I did indeed choose my name to represent the junction at Lake and Wells, as I used to go through it daily. No longer, as I now ride the bus.
"the cta pays a lot of money to keep that crap out of the paper, along with the 10 suicides that occur between christmas and NYE every year."
Are you suggesting the CTA is paying off the media to hide news, or did I miss something?
And I always thought most media did not report on suicides unless they were of high profile people or in a very high profile public place.
The CBS story says a "still and box alarm" was triggered -- what's that? Wikipedia and google (lazyweb stage I) have failed me, so I'm resorting to lazyweb stage II.