Four wagons derailed on 15 January near the Huron and Eastern Railway building at the end of Irwin Street, Bad Axe, blocking Woolworth Street for some time before the wreckage could be cleared. One...
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There was alarm at Martinez in San Francisco’s East Bay area on 20 January when three tankcars carrying sulphuric acid came off the track beneath the Benicia road bridge and one turned over on its...
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An unusually severe storm hit the United States east coast on Friday 22 January. Ten people were initially reported to have died and a state of emergency was declared in 10 states as well as...
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A 57-vehicle Florida East Coast Railway freight train travelling up the coast from Miami on 21 December derailed the second of two locomotives and four wagons carrying containers at Rockledge at about...
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A number of wagons – most of them empty - in a Norfolk Southern Railway freight train derailed on 16 December in Vance, Alabama, near Highway 11, but had no effect on road traffic in the area. The...
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Ten CSX tankcars carrying liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) derailed near New Martinsville, West Virginia, on 24 December. Four vehicles fell on their sides but there were no leaks and nobody was hurt....
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On 27 December, a Burlington Northern Santa Fe railway (BNSF) freight from California ran into Shoal Creek floodwaters in Neosho, Missouri. The train was stationary when it was swept off the line in...
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Crews attending the scene of a derailment in Attica, Indiana, on 2 January had to replace more than 120 metres of track that was torn up. Seven grain wagons in a train of the Norfolk Southern Railway...
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On Sunday morning 13 December, high winds blew down street signs, power lines, trees and advertising billboards in Lufkin, Texas. A train comprising 64 empty wagons was blown off the track. Loop 287/...
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On 10 December, a Canadian National freight train derailed 12 loaded grain wagons near Hinton, about 288km west of Edmonton in Alberta. The incident is under investigation by the Transportation Safety...
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