Investigations have been completed into the serious Canadian derailment near Burlington, Ontario, on 26 February 2012 when three crew members lost their lives and nearly 50 people were hurt.
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In 2011, VIA Rail Canada, which provides the national rail passenger service, won the Railway Association of Canada's Safety Award for the 11th time in 12 years. Following the Transportation Safety...
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To repair extensive damage caused by Hurricane Sandy, New York City Transit is to close two subway tunnels for lengthy periods soon. The Greenpoint tunnel, used by the G train under Newtown Creek...
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On 28 May, a garbage truck that drove into a 45-wagon New York-Georgia freight train on a crossing in Rosedale, Maryland, a suburb east of Baltimore, caused a number of wagons to derail. Four of these...
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Miraculously, no one was killed in a spectacular accident at about 02:20 on 25 May near Rockville in eastern Missouri. A freight train of the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway (BNSF), carrying...
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In a bizarre incident on 1 July, a turkey crashed through the windscreen of an Amtrak passenger train at Mansfield, Massachusetts, injuring the driver. He was taken to the Sturdy Memorial Hospital in...
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The collapse of a road bridge section over the Skagit River in Washington State on 23 May closed the key Interstate north-south Highway 5 (Vancouver to Seattle and Portland, Oregon). To assist...
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On 9 May, two Union Pacific trains - one conveying coal, the other containers - collided on the main-line in Iowa near Grand Junction, some 96km north of Des Moines. Twenty wagons were reported off...
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Early on 20 May, a freight train of the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway (BNSF) rear-ended a Union Pacific (UP) freight on UP tracks near Tehachapi in California, derailing a locomotive and four...
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At 08:00 on 3 May, more than 20 wagons conveying sand derailed in Lytle, Texas, due to a broken fishplate. Union Pacific officials told the press that a workcrew had been scheduled to attend to the...
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