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Title: Green Line train derails near West Hyattsville
Post by: WayneNYC on July 06, 2012, 06:37:17 PM
http://www.wjla.com/articles/2012/07/green-line-train-derails-77646.html (http://www.wjla.com/articles/2012/07/green-line-train-derails-77646.html)

Title: Re: Green Line train derails near West Hyattsville
Post by: Antozilla on July 06, 2012, 07:21:20 PM
I think sun kink
Title: Re: Green Line train derails near West Hyattsville
Post by: Sand Box John on July 06, 2012, 11:56:38 PM
WTOP reported the train derailed in the tunnel railroad north of the West Hyattsville station. The passengers were evacuated from the rear of the train and out the emergency exit on Kirkwood Place (29th Avenue) and Ager Road.

The evacuation was completed in around 90 minutes after the train went on the ground as the emergency exit was around 100' from the train.

https://maps.google.com/maps?q=ager+road+hyattsville+md&hl=en&ll=38.96,-76.968642&spn=0.000678,0.001635&sll=38.96,-76.968642&sspn=0.043381,0.104628&t=h&hnear=Ager+Rd,+Hyattsville,+Prince+George%27s,+Maryland&z=20&layer=c&cbll=38.96,-76.968642&panoid=lC-tzMCALOKNkAgweCUdxA&cbp=13,236.77,,1,1.2
Title: Re: Green Line train derails near West Hyattsville
Post by: Sand Box John on July 07, 2012, 01:04:45 PM
Antozilla
I think sun kink


Right you are.

(http://wttg.images.worldnow.com/images/18967780_BG1.jpg)
picture from WTTG Fox 5 (http://www.myfoxdc.com/story/18967780/metro-train-derailment-near-west-hyattsville-station)