Big Thunder Mountain Railroad incident

I just heard a short segment on the news that people were taken to the hospital off of Big Thunder Mountain Railroad- does anybody have any more info?

I've been searching for news headlines but can find none online.

I have been searching as well, and havent been able to come up with anything. I guess I will find out soon though. I'm sure something like this happening at Disneyland will get plenty of press.

What is this, the third derailment this year? What's going on ...

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Brett
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Which one?...there are four!

mOOSH

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*** This post was edited by Mamoosh 9/5/2003 3:26:51 PM ***

Another post states Disneyland

Shows how far DLand's operators heads are up their butts... they spend a ton of money on the ride last year to add safety gates and at the same time cut maintenance budgets and prevent the maintenance dept. from being able to keep an ample stock of spare parts on hand.

If we ever hear the real story of why this happened, I'll bet it was maintenance related.

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Closest I can find to a news story at this point is on KABC's website - the ticker says watch the 4:00 news for updates http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/

I also saw it on TV on CNN but no story online for it yet...

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--George H
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Ok, I just saw it on Fox News (terrible channel by the way) and they showed an overhead view with a train at the station and said they know people are injured but no details yet.

For those wanting to follow this, mouseplanet is updating a page on the incident every few minutes.

http://www.mouseplanet.com/more/bigthunder_breaking.htm

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http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/news/090503_NW_Disneyland_ax.html

11 Injured...one critically...

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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,96570,00.html

More bad coverage!! Arghhhhhhh
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I just saw video of someone being taken away by emergency response people and his hand flopped down like he was dead!

They are saying that employees are informing guest that something is wrong with the river boats!! This is insane! Whats going on people 2 train derailments in 1 month!!
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This happened b4 at Thunder Mountain? Disneyland sux. WDW is waaaay better.

Did I miss something, Crashmando? When did this happen before?

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Kevin Stone
NoLimits Roller Coaster Simulator
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Darth Justin... when people are unconscious, they don't exactly have control over their body parts. Don't jump to conclusions, especially with an accident like this.

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Six Flags Worlds of Adventure Online

Oh God.

Disney is the last park I would ever expect this to happen to.

Also the official statements says 'broke away' not 'derailment'. Somebody made that assumption based on their limited imagination. 'Broke away' could just as easily mean that the coupling between the cars broke and the locomotive car pulled out ahead. So again it's jumping to conclusions.

Telling people that something's wrong with the river boats is really stupid though, assuming it's true.

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Kevin Stone
NoLimits Roller Coaster Simulator
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As things are developing, it sounds like the (Purely Decorative) Engine separated from the rest of the train. As to how the people were actually hurt...

My thought is that if the engine did separate and advanced ahead of the rest of the train, it could have entered a block brake zone, triggering the brakes to close. When the rest of the train hit the (already closed) brakes at full speed.
Alternately, and this somehow seems more likely, the separated engine went ahead of the train but failed to make it up a hill, causing it to either slow down or actually begin to roll backwards, at which point the train struck it.
We'll see.

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