A CSX train derailed at Guthrie, Ky at 05:20 (CDT) on September 15, 2011. The Lead loco is just south of Fairgrounds Rd with a broken knuckle. The second loco is about 1/4 mile north upright at a 30 degree angle to the tracks. Between the Guthrie interlocking and the second loco (mostly on the west side of the tracks) is a large pile of orange Hamburg Sud 40′ containers with well cars sticking up at various angles.
Both tracks are blocked and it appears that the northbound signals may have been hit. To my UNTRAINED eye it appears that the train derailed in the interlocking or immediately south of it at the yard lead switch. This will not be a good day to railfan the Henderson Sub.
The dispatcher was talking reroutes but no specifics. Last derailment the TOFC and hot freights went from Evansville down the ‘Texas’ to Louisville and then down the Mainline Sub to Nashville. So keep an eye out on the Mainline for TOFC traffic today and maybe tomorrow (Sept. 16, 2011). – Steve Miller