CSX 8888 incident

Uncommon card · No. 113138

The CSX 8888 incident, also known as the Crazy Eights incident, was a runaway train event involving a CSX Transportation freight train in the U.S. state of Ohio on May 15, 2001. Locomotive #8888, an EMD SD40-2, ran uncontrolled for just under two hours at up to 53 miles per hour (85 km/h) while pulling a train of 47 cars; 2 cars were loaded with molten phenol, a substance used in dyes and glues. It was finally halted by a railroad crew in a catch locomotive, who caught up with the runaway train and coupled their locomotive to the rear car. The incident inspired the 2010 movie Unstoppable. As of October 2026, the locomotive is still in service, having been rebuilt and upgraded to an SD40-3 as part of a refurbishment program carried out by CSX in 2015; it is now numbered 4389 and it has a different cab. It was delivered as Conrail #6410 in September 1977.

Read on Wikipedia · Image The original uploader was TVSRR at English Wikipedia., CC BY-SA 3.0