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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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