A Union Pacific freight train routed from Council Bluffs in Iowa to Kansas City derailed seven wagons as it left the station in Des Moines on 31 March. Four of the affected vehicles were empty; the...
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Twenty-seven of the 120 wagons in a westbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe (BNSF) freight train came off the track between Keenesburg and Hudson, Colorado, on 22 March. There were no injuries and no...
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A 21-year-old car driver was taken to hospital in critical condition after driving in front of a Los Angeles Metrolink commuter train on 28 March. Emergency personnel had to cut him from the wreckage....
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On 2 March, 10 of the 95 wagons in a Union Pacific freight train from Idaho bound for the railways' Hinkle Yard near Hermiston in Oregon derailed near Meacham (in the same state). One wagon said to...
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People in Rural Hall, North Carolina, were showered in sawdust on 34 March when a train on the Yadkin Valley Railroad derailed on an embankment and wagons overturned. A resident sitting on her...
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Concern over possible methanol leaks resulted in 10 homes being evacuated at Valley Mills, 40km north-west of Waco, Texas, following the derailing of 10 wagons in a freight train on 21 March. Five of...
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On 12 February, 26 wagons in an eastbound Union Pacific coal train from Wyoming derailed near Bayard, Nebraska. Both lines were blocked by 'tangled wreckage and scattered coal'. No members of the...
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In yet another serious crossing collision and derailment in America, 55 train passengers were injured on 9 March at Halifax, North Carolina. A 50-metre combination tractor and trailer carrying a...
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Two Union Pacific freight trains derailed on 2 March in Oregon, one in the Cascades mountains and the other in the Blue Mountain range. Ten wagons came off the track near Meacham in Umatilla County,...
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Near Cranberry on 11 March, about 50km north-east of Brandon on Canadian National Railway's main-line in western Manitoba, 13 wagons left the track. Reportedly some 30,000 litres of bitumen spilled...
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