The CSX 8888 Incident, also known as the Crazy Eights Incident, was a freight train accident in Ohio on May 15, 2001.
The incident occurred after an operator got off the locomotive, which was still at low speed, to change tracks and maneuver another locomotive in the yard. The problem was that he didn't apply the brake
dynamic as I had believed and the 100% power that should have stopped the train ended up making it accelerate. With that, the CSX 8888 traveled without a driver - and therefore, without control - for two hours, at 82 km/h
The train was only stopped after 106 km had been driven, with the help of a second locomotive, which caught up with the runaway train and engaged its last car. Using the dynamic brake (motor brake) the machine
The incident only injured one person, an experienced conductor who tried to jump on the moving train and ended up being dragged by the composition for 24 meters. This incident gained even more notoriety in 2010, after its story inspired the plot of the film Unstoppable, which starred, among others, Denzel Washington.[3]
Csx 8888 The train consisted of an EMD SD40-2 locomotive 8888
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