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Originally Posted by Hack&Lube
Most people don't know this but there was a major C-Train accident in the NW yesterday. One of the power harnesses that stick off the train to connect it to the overhead wires broke off, swung over the side of the train and smashed through and the window exploded into the train and something got caught and I think the train derailed slightly.
Luckily, nobody was by that window at the time or they would be majorly injured or dead.
The official announcment you probably heard was that there was a power failure but it was much more severe. Freak accidents that are pretty lethal can occure anytime.
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Here's a description of the incident on Wednesday from a train operator on another forum I post at:
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It all happened about 1345hrs. Key 6 left University when Enmax (already on scene for a unrelated problem) spotted a problem with the trailing car's pantagraph. They tried to radio key 6 to stop the train but it was to late, the train entered the tunnel inbound at about 75km/h damaging the catenary almost all the way through the tunnel. The train finally shut down, and the operator had no idea what had happened. Control asked the operator to check the pantagraphs and noticed that the pantagraph on the trailing car was bent out of shape. There was alot of damage caused to the catenary, from just north of University station all the way to the south end of the crowchild tunnel.
Chunks of debris hit the train, breaking 3 windows, causing minor body damage to the train and other equipment in the tunnel.
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Key "x" is a particular scheduled run of either a bus or C-Train. The key of this train was 6.
Pantagraph is the part of the train that connects to the overhead wires.
Catenary are the overhead wires. Catenary poles are the metal poles that hold up the wires.
Inbound means heading toward downtown.