There was one reported in NY on the 27th. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/27/nyregion/27staten.html?em At 6:27 a.m., as a four-car train entered the Tottenville station, it struck the iron bumper that sits on the rails. The lead car derailed in the accident, which took place a few dozen yards from the Arthur Kill, the narrow channel that separates Staten Island and New Jersey. No passengers were on board, and the two crew members on the train were not injured. -----Original Message----- From: Paul Ferguson [mailto:fergdawgster@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, December 28, 2008 12:02 PM To: Blake Pfankuch Cc: virendra.rode@gmail.com; outages@outages.org Subject: Re: [outages] fiber cut - train derailment. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 10:39 AM, Blake Pfankuch <bpfankuch@cpgreeley.com> wrote:

Unless that train derailment is so new it hasn't hit the news yet, the derailment that I see occurred yesterday. Network issues were non-existent until 1030 MST. Level3 is giving scare reports of "issue fixed". But not confirmed yet.

The only train derailment that I have heard of in the past 24h is in "Northern Nevada": "A freight train derailed in northern Nevada, triggering a bridge collapse and major disruptions in rail service on one of the country's main east-west lines, Union Pacific officials said." "The derailment occurred Saturday morning in a remote area along the Humboldt River about 10 miles west of Carlin and 260 miles east of Reno, UP spokeswoman Zoe Richmond said. " http://www.mercurynews.com/nationworld/ci_11322908 Caveat: I am not sure this is related to any network outages, etc. - - ferg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.6.3 (Build 3017) wj8DBQFJV800q1pz9mNUZTMRAnP4AJ9O2G/vqf89GV/NhDwIPrTWx5YzngCeNMa3 uAYi3zfMwRKV+ypTj+5iNPo= =Nrbt -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawgster(at)gmail.com ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/