Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa Lucky Montana routinely attributes problems to elderly infrastructure and trains - some as much as forty years old. Spare a thought for operational problems in...
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Investigations by the National Transportation Safety Board into the 12 January incident in Washington DC, when commuters spent 30 minutes in a dark, smoke-filled, stalled underground train, have...
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On 4 February, the derailing of two Canadian Pacific Railway locos and 13 wagons in a remote location north of Dubuque in eastern Iowa saw ethanol discharged into the frozen Mississippi River. Three...
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On Monday morning 2 February, a Manhattan-bound train stalled near Queensboro Plaza, trapping four other commuter trains behind it. The metropolitan transport authority was unable to discover the...
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According to press reports, 19,000 gallons of hydrochloric acid, 4,000 gallons of diesel fuel and about 100 gallons of sodium hydroxide were spilled when a train derailed on 27 January at Martin, in...
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Seven wagons in a train travelling from Scottdale to Smithfield in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, derailed in Uniontown on 22 January, spilling a type of sand known as 'Frac'. One reportedly came to...
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Remember the 1993 film The Fugitive? Harrison Ford plays a doctor wrongfully convicted of his wife's murder. In the movie a bus carrying prison inmates plunges down high ground off the highway onto a...
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Early in January, a motorist in Gilroy, 190km south of San Francisco, collided with a rail inspection trolley at a crossing protected by automatic gates and warning lights. His car overturned, pinning...
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On 7 January, 23 wagons in a Canadian National train of 114 derailed about 40km west of Wainwright in Canada's Alberta. The consist was headed from Edmonton to Saskatoon. No injuries were reported and...
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In a horror collision on 6 January, a schoolbus that failed to stop at a crossing in Larimore, about 160km from Fargo in North Dakota, was hit by a Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway (BNSF) freight,...
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