Article: https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/freight-train-cars-derail-near-014058301.html
Freight train cars derail near Petco Park, closes Harbor Drive
Harbor Drive is currently closed to traffic due to the derailment.
The derailment occurred around 4 p.m. CHP also confirmed there is structural damage to a concrete pillar beneath Harbor Drive, near Switzer Street.
BNSF confirmed with FOX 5/KUSI that three rail cars carrying automobiles derailed at approximately 4 p.m. The company also said that there are no injuries or hazardous materials involved.
BNSF also reported that the derailed cars are leaning against a bridge pillar on Harbor Drive. The cause of the derailment is under investigation.
Motorists are encouraged to avoid the area as Harbor Drive remains closed for an unknown duration. Traffic in the area could be impacted by the derailment.
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My commentary: This raised my eyebrows for two reasons. 1. Train derailments seem to have become common in recent years and 2. Over the years, I've commented numerous times about my concerns about the Monarch Charter School for Homeless Children, the main train station (near which the derailing occurred), the Container Port and the Convention Center all being a very short walk from one another. I suspect that children are being moved between the port and trains, that they use the school as cover for moving children, and that children are pimped at convention activities.
Here is an article that I wrote that touches on some of my concerns about the State of CA being involved in child trafficking: https://yournews.com/2026/02/18/6474366/californias-income-tax-agency-has-several-questionable-programs-involving-illegal/
Here is a GAW post where I commented about my concerns about kids being trafficked through the port/train: https://greatawakening.win/p/19AwoaDN32/lara-logan-reposts-a-video-about/
Here is another one: https://greatawakening.win/p/17txMcJNAW/comiccon-san-diego-human-traffic/
Sounds like poor maintenance on the tracks.
That's the cause of most derailment. IMAO
Whatever caused derailment ?? However - Christine is spot on about child trafficking in this area - us who know have been aware of the convention center and children for many years . I know a girl who worked banquets there, she is still mentally disturbed by what she saw and uncovered in the basement/ kitchen areas . All the major people in charge of convention center are criminal Mexican people . A lot goes on through that Convention Center , a few pod casters were investigating during early Biden years when the place was " "temporarily" used for thousands of kids! However all talk was shut down quickly ! Sam Diego is a huge hub for children ! The expression " those who know can't sleep " has been used here many times and I posted a sign with that statement outside convention center years ago ! Horror !!
Good to know. Derailment are usually caused by the rails or cross ties being washed out or rotten. I've seen trains going along slow where the end of the tie is missing and the rail is unsupported and the train go's down 6 inches or more every time one of the axels pass over it. This is fairly common off the main line,where they are not used much from what ive seen. I'm not a trainfag.
Yes the rail system out here is rotting like everything else accept the new huge apt buildings which are for illegals only , we just got about a million Somalis , Costco looks like a third world country there are thousands of them in and out with there massive food cards it's pitiful while hard working Americans are struggling to feed family's . All the food banks are lined up with white Americans, the Somalians and all the other illegals , SA , Nigerians etc don't need the food banks. They have major food cards. I don't understand why this is still going on.
democrat and somalis means billion dollar fraud. always has. democrat and mexican is only hundred million dollar fraud. the mexican gangs want a much larger cut than the somali gangs.
This happened just outside the main freight train depot for San Diego, so you'd expect this section of track to be maintained as it was the most used.
Also, oddly, this happened yesterday afternoon. Since the tracks are shared with Amtrak, usually Amtrak runs during the day and the freight trains run at night. It was an unusual time of day for a freight train to be leaving or arriving.
terrible, sounds like we need a hundred thousand Marines to clean up SD!
This is true. And to be fair, given the proximity to the homeless camps, it is possible that something was thrown onto the tracks to cause the derailment.
I find the recent spate of derailments nationwide to be concerning Is our national infrastructure that poorly maintained or is someone sabotaging it? Either way, we need to fix the issues.
And as I said in my post, I believed that children are trafficking via these freight trains, so I wonder if anything nefarious was found by the rescue workers.
Rail would be a better way to traffic kids than trucks,they don't get much scrutiny....
I believe they take the containers containing children off the ships and put them directly on the freight train. And should they let the kids out of the container for any reason, they will claim the kids came from the homeless school... which is why you will never see them again... homeless kids move a lot...
Probably so....
"Monarch" is deep in symbolism. Even by itself with no obvious connections to cargo transit hubs, the name alone raises suspicions.
And if the programming stuff weren't enough, the actual monarch butterflies famously migrate between the US and Mexico.
With the economy heating up, the railroad tracks need a lot of investment. The track maintenance is complicated by ownership, use and the lack financial capability by the railroads. The Trump team needs a plan.
A lot of these side rails are not used much or worth fixing. A lot of of rail here in Oklahoma is only used during harvest time to move grain out. The main lines are different they are used all the time.
I could be wrong on this, but my understanding is that San Diego only has one line nowadays that is shared by the freight trains (at night) and Amtrak (daytime). There is a line out in the southeast part of the county that I believe is owned by a train museum and hobbyists keep it going for the museum to run their museum cars on. The museum used to take tourists to a Mexican border town, but the line broke on the Mexican side and the Mexican government has never fixed it.
Their shouldn't be any issues with the line,if it's used by Amtrak
The shared portion of the track starts just past where the derailing occurred, so it was not in the shared portion. The stretch of track between the freight depot and the Amtrak Depot is very short. My guess is maybe 1/2 mile at most? But we do get a lot of container ships in and it's a heavily used track, so I would expect it to be well maintained. Since the derailing happened near a homeless camp, I wonder if there was something on the tracks or maybe damage done to the tracks by the encampment.