PICKING UP THE PIECES

It took five units of heavy lifting equipment to right six wagons that went off the line on 13 April in Upper Mount Bethel Township in eastern Pennsylvania. Each was carrying 100 tons of sand. It was...

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PENNSYLVANIA FREIGHT DERAILMENT

Six wagons in a train of 45 came off the track on 13 April in Upper Bethel Township, Northampton County, Pennsylvania. Three vehicles overturned. The effect of a press report headed dramatically...

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U S RAIL TRESPASSING STATS

Railways have been around in North America for more than 150 years, yet people still lose their lives walking on the line. According to statistics from the the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA),...

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SENSORS WRONGLY PLACED AT CHICAGO AIRPORT

Estimates of the damage caused at Chicago's O'Hare airport on 24 March have risen to $9.1 million. A commuter train entering the dead-end station beneath the terminal's concourses at 03:00 overshot...

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CHICAGO FIRES ESCALATOR DRIVER

The Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) has fired the driver of a train that overshot the end of the line at O'Hare Airport on 24 March and climbed halfway up a platform escalator. Apparently, she failed...

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ELLISVILLE: 19 WAGONS DERAIL

On 28 March, a northbound freight train of the Norfolk Southern company derailed 19 wagons beneath a highway overpass near Ellisville, Mississippi. One wagon reportedly overturned. No hazardous cargo...

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TEEN LOSES LEG UNDER TRAIN

Five Indiana teenagers who went to look at a derailed railway freight wagon have been charged with trespassing. One of them, a nineteen-year-old, won't forget the incident in a hurry. On their way...

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THE TRAIN THAT CLIMBED AN ESCALATOR

The spotlight has been on the Chicago Transit train that overshot the platform at O'Hare International Airport on 24 March and climbed halfway up an escalator. Nobody was killed but 32 were injured....

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LOCO ON TOW CATCHES FIRE

In an unusual Sunday afternoon incident a short distance east of Ottawa, a locomotive being towed behind Montreal-Toronto passenger train 57 caught fire near Alexandria at about 16:00. The train was...

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TEENS HIT BY TRAIN

Two teenagers walking along the railway to a dance at the local high school in Marysville, California, on the evening of 21 March were hit from behind by a freight train. The boy died at the scene....

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