During a routine inspection of a Union Pacific train in a yard at Pittsburg, California, on the evening of 7 January, a small leak from a tankcar was detected. As the train comprised 30 wagons...
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On 17 December, a Metro-North train with 20 passengers that had just pulled away from New York's Grand Central Terminal received a slight corner bump at slow speed from a light locomotive that ran a...
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On 26 December, 15 wagons in a Canadian Pacific freight train derailed on a bridge crossing 40 Mile Creek near Banff town in the Banff National Park. Seven vehicles fell into the water, spilling grain...
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After finishing her shift at the Irish Embassy Bar in downtown Montreal in the early hours of 8 December, 22-year-old student Sarah Stott took a short cut across the railway. There was a stationary...
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On 16 December, a nine-wagon eastbound Union Pacific train ran off the track in the Hart Flat area of Kern County in California. No injuries or hazardous cargo were reported, but extensive track...
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Late on Friday 5 December, police were called to a Chicago-to-Port Huron Amtrak train at Niles in Michigan, about 16km north of South Bend, Indiana. There was commotion in a coach where a man had...
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Over a distance of about 3km, a railway parallels the Route 41 North Plain Road through the town of Great Barrington, Massachusetts. It is a hazardous arrangement, as a number of residential driveways...
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A West Indies Alumina Company (Windalco) freight train carrying bauxite derailed near St Catherine in Jamaica on 2 November. Press reports gave no detail, saying only that no injuries were reported....
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On 30 November, some four kilometres of Highway 90 near Wilmer in Santa Rosa County, Florida were closed for more than 24 hours following the derailing of about 20 out of 84 wagons in a CSX freight...
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On 1 December, 32 out of 92 wagons in a Burlington Northern Santa Fe (BNSF) freight train came off the track near Bluffton, between New York Mills and Wadena in Minnesota. Tankcars were involved but...
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