Chilean passenger train gone missing with 8 passengers on board - Sensationalist Headlines

Sources (in spanish): GOPE inicia búsqueda de Tren del Ramal Constitución Tren Ramal Talca https://twitter.com/colonialdiario/status/1134314636117831682/photo/1 Railbus from the Constitución-Talca branchline did not reach its destination and its location is unknown. For four hours that has not been maintained communication with the passenger train that still has not reached its destination. The GOPE unit from Carabineros de Chile (special chilean police unit) have started the search.

How does a train go missing?

Does Chile suffer from crime to a similar extent as, say, Brazil? Did the train pass through mountainous territory? A hijacking or derailment are probably the only things that could cause a train to go missing.

How the shitting fuck do you lose a train?? There's a rather limited selection of locations it could have ended up.

Probably fell in a cliff? Hope the passengers are okay..

sadly not everybody keeps track of their train scheduling through gps and video monitoring. If they mostly communicate by radio or just cell phones, there's not much reporting being done if it were to derail. Not unheard of, even in the middle of a big city in the states, for the occasional passenger train to overdo it on the speed and fucking tank a corner, and nothing to say of track conditions on a long path through ill-frequented areas

Was it you Supertrain_fan?, also it seems that it might have been a derailment. I hope the people are okay.

Darn cowboys

Wouldn't there be signs of derailment, though?

Yeah a derailment is hardly lost unless they're not looking for it.

I thought it was a bit odd that they've deployed a counter-terrorist unit to carry out the search but after reading about them it makes a lot of sense: Fields of operation Bomb disposal Counter-terrorism exercises Mastering the most advanced techniques of mountain rescue Aquatic and urban areas Skydiving Martial arts Diving tactics Weapons handling and hazardous substances Procedures in heavily polluted environments Knowledge paramedics "... rescuing people or bodies from places of difficult access..."

Really? Damn, I've taken that train a couple times before to get to Chillan a couple times, but nothing about the trip struck me as unsafe. It was pretty pleasant, actually. I assume the conductor decided to go too fast and derailed?

Good news everyone! The train was found, and everyone on board is alive and well. Sources (in spanish): Sanos y salvos Confirman hallazgo de Tren Ramal Talca Later today I'm going to post some more details about this, because I'm on my phone right now. But this was because of landslides and fallen trees on the tracks, in the middle of nowhere.

a derailment in open wilderness like chile has a lot of is hard to just kinda spot also a tl;dr on the news article, the train stopped to clear a whole bunch of trees and scraggle that was blocking the line, meaning they likely came to a stop in an area with lots of tree cover and were probably hard to spot from helicopter

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeiJ2jHyy7U