On 12 March, Metro-North afternoon commuter services into and out of Grand Central station, New York, were halted following an explosion in East Harlem that demolished two five-storey buildings...
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Unusually, some of the passenger injuries (mostly back pain) attributed to a Boston light rail derailment on 10 March occurred in the following train, which was forced to brake sharply. The leading...
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Eleven passengers in a Los Angeles Blue Line service were hurt, two badly, when a minivan reportedly ran a red light on 14 March and collided with the train. The driver and passenger in the van also...
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The Association of American Railroads (AAR) has told the United States Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration that most of the old tankcars being operated in America should be phased...
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On 19 February, five wagons in a freight consist left the track in Westford, Massachusetts. Two contained liquid petroleum gas (LPG), which has the potential to explode. Town Manager Jodi Ross...
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On 20 February, during the filming of the Gregg Allman biopic Midnight Rider, camera assistant Sarah Jones was killed by a train on a trestle over the Altamaha River near the Doctortown Road crossing...
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In the last week of February, a shunting locomotive on a siding side-swiped a Canadian National freight train on the main line at St Henri, a district of Montreal. Two locomotives and two wagons...
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A Big Lake (Minnesota) resident waited for a train to pass, then pulled forward as the gates went up. To her horror, they started coming down again for another train. She braked sharply but the car...
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Late in the evening of 17 February, a freight train pulling out of a Chicago yard derailed while negotiating a crossing over three running lines. With all three closed, Metra commuter trains were...
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On Monday night 17 February, a 62-wagon CSX freight train bound for Ohio from Indiana derailed 19 vehicles in a village called Tontogany, about 40km south-west of Toledo. It is understood that only...
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