On 28 February, police in Hoopeston, Illinois, were called at 02:00 to the railway at West Washington Street where a Ford Ranger truck was trapped at an angle across the track. While officers tried to...
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A 128-wagon Norfolk Southern coal train headed from Chicago to a Detroit Edison coal-fired power plant in Monroe, Michigan, derailed 38 vehicles in Waterloo, about 80km east of Elkhart, on 27 March....
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On 25 March, two of five Dakota, Missouri Valley & Western Railroad locomotives heading north about 5km south of Washburn, xxxxxx, derailed on the banks of Turtle Creek when the ground beneath the...
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On the evening of 8 March, five vehicles in a 123-wagon CSX freight train derailed on the east bank of the Schuylkill River in Center City, Pennsylvania. Repair workers suffered a setback when a...
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One of 15 freight wagons that derailed and fell on their sides at about 02:00 on 16 March in Lincoln, Nebraska, was a tankcar containing about 93 tons of chlorine. Had this leaked out, an 8km area...
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A military truck hit by the leading diesel of three hauling a 100-wagon Union Pacific (UP) wheat train at Saginaw, Texas (about 16km north-west of Fort Worth), caused a fire that seriously damaged the...
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Investigations into a 20-wagon derailment in Santa Fe on 18 February which spilled oil and caused 80 people to be evacuated from their homes suggest that a faulty track brace was to blame. The...
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On 20 February, a Ford Explorer driven by a 19-year-old hit the last vehicle of an Amtrak passenger train at a crossing in Albion, Michigan. Despite bad damage to the front of her car, she continued...
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Investigators believe the deaths of two men hit by Amtrak trains on the north-east corridor line 11 hours apart on 11 March were both suicides. The fatalities bring to five the number of people killed...
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Four Florida teenagers who ignored 'no trespassing' signs are thought to have taken a short cut over a 60-metre-long railway trestle on 21 February, Evidently they did not hear a locomotive horn until...
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