About 4:15 a.m., on October 3, 1982, a Missouri Pacific Railroad Company (MP) southbound freight train Extra UP 2948 South collided with the eighth car ahead of the caboose of an opposing freight train, MP Extra UP 2437 North, at a rail junction known as Glaise Junction on the MP near the community of Possum Grape, Arkansas. The three-unit locomotive and the following nine cars of the southbound train derailed, and the second through eighth cars ahead of the caboose on the northbound train derailed. The engineer and the head brakeman of the southbound train were killed on impact; the conductor of the northbound train was injured and hospitalized. Fire broke out at the overturned lead unit. Damage was estimated to be $1,047,000. The National Transportation Safety Board determines that the probable cause of the accident was the failure of the crewmembers on the locomotive of Extra UP 2948 South to reduce the speed of the train, in response to a signal displaying an approach aspect, and to stop the train in response to the junction home signal displaying a stop aspect.
Railroad Accident Report - Side Collision of Two Missouri Pacific Railroad Company Freight Trains at Glaise Junction, Near Possum Grape, Arkansas, October 3, 1982
1983
34 pages
Report
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English
Transportation Safety , Railroad Transportation , Railroads , Accidents , Cargo transportation , Locomotives , Junctions , Collisions , Casualties , Fires , Damage assessment , Arkansas , Railroad accidents , Railroad derailments , Possum Grape(Arkansas) , Speed , Human factors , Alcohol related crashes