South Carolina Train Derailments 2026

TRAIN CREW MEMBERS DEPARTED MP ACH 341 WITH 46 CARS. 1 LOAD AND 45 EMPTIES, IN THAT ORDER. THE 38THCARS FRONT TWO WHEELS DERAILED AT APPROXIMATELY THE ACH 340.2. THE CAR ROAD THE TIES DOWN THE TRACKUNTIL APPROXIMATELY MP ACH 338.5. THE TRAIN TRAVERSED A SWITCH IN A RIGHT HAND CURVE CAUSING THE DERAILED WHEELS TO NOT...

M58325 WAS TRAVELING NORTH BOUND ON TRACK AND DERAILED SHPX 458634 AND 16 OTHER CARS WHEN BRIDGE FAILED.

GO23 SHOVING WEST ON YARD TRACK 1 WITH 54 CARS AT 2,977 TONS DERAILED 36TH-39TH HEAD CARS ON THE FROG AT THE WEST YARD TOP LEAD SWITCH WHICH IS IN THE APEX OF A 7.5-DEGREE CURVE.

NS TRAIN 154P426 WAS TRAVELING NORTH WHEN THE DRAFT GEAR ON THE B-END OF TTPX 80061 FAILED. THE DRAWHEAD FELL BENEATH THE CAR AND CAUSED THE RAIL TO ROLL OVER PUTTING THIRTEEN CARS ON THE GROUND. DRAFT SILL 40% OLD BREAK, CONCEALED DEFECT, ALLOWED COUPLER AND CUSHION UNIT TO PULL OUT OF CAR DROPPING INSIDE GAUGE OF...

M58315 WAS ON THE NORTHEND OF THE YARD HOLDING ONTO 22 CARS SHOVING SOUTH THRU THE SCALE CROSSOVER INTO TRACK 15 TO MAKE A COUPLING AND DERAILED 8 CARS, AS WELL AS TWO LOCOMOTIVES, DUE TO TRACK ISSUE.

WHILE TRAVELING EAST DIRECTION TRAIN 242P309 DERAILED.

COLUMBO (ENVIVA) INDUSTRIES PERSONNEL WERE SETTING 4 LOADS OVER FROM THE INBOUND TRACK TO THE OUTBOUND TRACK USING THEIR CAR MOVER. WHEN THEY COUPLED UP TO THE OUTBOUND TRACK CONSISTING OF 23 LOADS AND 15 EMPTIES AND MADE THE AIR BETWEEN THE COUPLING, THE WHOLE CUT OF CARS BEGAN ROLLING SOUTH THRUTHE SPLIT POINT DER...

WHEN EMPLOYEES REPORTING FOR DUTY, THEY FOUND THE CPDR OFFICE HAD BEEN VANDALIZED AND ONE (1) LOCOMOTIVE DERAILED. INVESTIGATION FOUND TWO UNAUTHORIZED INDIVIDUALS FORCIBLY ENTERED THE LOCOMOTIVE CABSTHROUGH THE SIDE WINDOWS. ONCE INSIDE,THEY MANAGED TO START THE LOCOMOTIVES AND MOVE THEM. SUBSEQUENTLY, THIS RESULTE...

RCO HAD THEIR HEAD ROOM IN WY05 VIA THE SCALE TRACK. THEY SHOVED AND COUPLED TO EY02 AND PULLED WEST. GO87 THEN SHOVED TO A COUPLE IN EY07. IT WAS AT THIS TIME THE TRAIN SHOT. THE CONDUCTOR WALKED THETRAIN TO FIND THE CAUSE. HE FOUND AN ISSUE WITH KLRX 6175 AIR HOSE AND ALERTED THE TOWER THE CAR NEEDED TO BE BAD ORD...

SCRF-SCTFYFL JOB WAS TRAVELING EAST WITH 10 LOADS AND 66 EMPTIES WHEN LINES 11-16 DERAILED. UPON INVESTIGATION IT WAS FOUND PRIOR TO DERAILMENT A BALLAST CAR LEVELING PLOW HAD BECOME UNSECURED AND CAUSED RAIL CARS TO DERAIL. NO INJURIES WERE REPORTED FOR THIS INCIDENT.

L65828, SHOVING 5 CARS 3 LOAD 2 EMPTIES, FROM NEWBERRY HOUSE TRACK TO CN&L MAINLINE, DERAILED BKTY 158538 WHEN RUNNING OVER DERAIL. CONDUCTOR FAILED TO REMOVE THE DERAIL CAUSING THE CAR TO TURNOVER.

EMPLOYEE SHOVED THROUGH THE WYE SWITCH AT THE CHARLESTON INTERMODAL RAMP WHILE SETTING OFF CARS IN JUNCTION 6, AND PULLED CAUSING A DERAILMENT OF NINE INTERMODAL CARS.