TRACK STOLEN FROM MINIATURE LINE

Miniature railway track in the South Kitsap Community Park, Washington state, was damaged by vandals during late September and parts from some 12 metres of track were stolen. A representative of the...

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RAIL SCRAP SOLD FOR 14,000 DOLLARS

On 5 August, police were told of material worth $14,000 being stolen from the North Coast Railroad company between the night of 28 July and the following morning. On 9 August, a second theft from the...

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CAR LANDS ON LINE

An elderly West Terre Haute (Indiana) couple was taken to hospital following what press reports described as a 'single-vehicle accident' on the Interstate 70 highway. On 16 September, in the middle of...

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FALLING SPIKES

CSX Transportation officials hope that "better housekeeping" by their maintenance crews will eliminate the recent problem of heavy metal spikes falling from a bridge on downtown Cincinnati's western...

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BIG RIG IN NEAR MISS WITH TRAIN

On 14 September, the driver of a 'big rig' pulling a flatbed trailer loaded with green plastic pipes applied his brakes and steered right when he saw a train approaching a crossing in Churchill,...

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LOCOMOTIVE ON FIRE

Rail traffic was halted for eight hours on 8 September when a locomotive hauling coal alongside the James River in Goochland County, Virginia, caught fire. Personnel from five counties fought the...

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DRIVER LOSES ARM IN TRAIN WRECK

The driver of a Union Pacific train that rear-ended a slower freight in Fontana near Colton in Southern California on 10 September was trapped on board. Steel I-beams carried on the train in front...

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AMTRAK PASSENGER FOUND DEAD AT TRACKSIDE

Passenger Barbara Arteta, 63, who went missing from a southbound Amtrak train on 9 September, was found dead beside the track in Jesup, Georgia. Husband Eugene Arteta, with whom she was travelling...

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BLACK SMOKE IN SPOKANE

On 1 September, railway employees working with a high intensity cutting torch set fire to sleepers impregnated with creosote at Spokane in Washington state, creating a huge pall of black smoke visible...

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TEXAS DERAILMENT DELAYS COMMUTERS

On 29 August, a number of wagons in a Burlington Northern Santa Fe coal train derailed just east of downtown Fort Worth, Texas. Commuter passenger service known as the Trinity Railway Express was...

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