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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Ottawa bus drivers are especially alert approaching level crossings, unable to forget the horrific collision between a double-deck bus and a train in September 2013, when six people died. Recently...
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William James, 60, had a slight accident when he bumped his van into a car at a filling station in Wilmington, North Carolina. The driver of the car confronted James, who turned round and sped away....
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According to official statistics, 365 people were reported missing on railways in India during 2013 - equivalent to one every day. Most were children and most (only just - 51% to be precise) were...
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City officials at Perth, Western Australia, studying cctv footage of a bizarre escalator accident at the Esplanade station, concluded it was caused by people ‘unfamiliar with public transport'. It...
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On 13 February, a 120-wagon Norfolk Southern freight train headed from Conway to Morrisville, Pennsylvania, derailed 21 tankcars at the town of Vandergrift. Nineteen were carrying oil - of which three...
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Very cold weather with heavy snow at the end of January meant many intercity train cancellations in the United States. Worst hit was Chicago. On 28 January, Lincoln Service trains 300, 301, 306 and...
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Following the derailing of 14 wagons in a southbound Union Pacific freight near Morrow, Louisiana, on 25 January, state police closed the adjacent U S Highway 71 until clean-up operations were...
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