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Firefighters Respond To Train Fire
November 3, 2009
A Tuesday morning fire in a train locomotive left a CSX train headed northbound minus half of its power.
The Flomaton Fire Department responded to a reported train locomotive on fire about 6:30 a.m. at Dixon Road and Old Fannie Road, about two-tenths of a mile north of the Florida/Alabama state line.
The CSX Transportation train’s engineer had already extinguished the fire in a gear box under the train — the portion of engine with the wheels driven by electric motors. When the first Flomaton firemen arrived on the scene, the gear box was just smoldering. Firefighters used a thermal imaging camera to look for hot spots inside the gear box, but they were unable to find anything unusual.
The train engineer said he had noticed the fire as the train was traveling through Flomaton, and he said he continued to Dixon Road crossing to allow firefighters to be able to reach the engine by road.
The train continued north toward its Waycross, Georgia, destination about 7:15 a.m. The engineer said that because of the fire, the rear wheels on the lead locomotive would not be used to power the train. Instead, he said they would run “dead”. The four engine train was already being powered by just three engines; the last engine was being towed to Waycross for repair.
Pictured above: A CSX employees watches a gear box under the train as it pulls away from Dixon Road in Flomaton. Pictured above: The wheels and gear box of a CSX locomotive are covered in fire extinguisher material after an engineer extinguished a Tuesday morning fire. NorthEscambia.com photos, click to enlarge.
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