Overview

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The CSX 8888 incident, also known as the Crazy Eights incident, involved an unmanned runaway train led by CSX Transportation locomotive #8888, an EMD SD40-2, that was pulling a freight train consisting of 47 cars, some of them loaded with Molten Phenol, a highly corrosive and toxic flammable chemical. The train ran uncontrolled for two hours at speeds up to 51 miles per hour through the U.S. state of Ohio. It was finally brought to a stop with the help of a railroad crew in a second locomotive, which caught up with the runaway and coupled to the rear car.