On 28 October, 28 out of 119 wagons in an eastbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway (BNSF) coal train came off the track in Waco, Nebraska, narrowly missing collision with a grain elevator....
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A 17 October excursion special taking sightseers to view autumn trees in the Ozark Mountains stalled when the locomotive lost adhesion, apparently due to leaves on the line. The incident occurred near...
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There have been a number of incidents where people have been hit by trains when trapped on trestle bridges in America. The latest, on 11 October in Southern California, resulted in the death of a...
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Twenty-six out of 100 wagons in a Canadian National freight train left the track in central Saskatchewan on 7 October. Petroleum distillates leaking from two derailed tankcars caught fire, creating...
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The crew of a freight train were badly hurt after colliding with a truck stalled on a crossing in downtown Mer Rouge, Louisiana on 4 October. The truck driver baled out as the train approached and was...
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The Norfolk Southern Railroad (NS) reports the 15 September derailing near New Haven, Indiana, of 31 out of 84 wagons (60 empty) in a freight train en route from Bellevue, Ohio, to Decatur, Illinois....
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No detail was supplied with a brief report from south-eastern Mexico which said a freight train derailed in Tabasco state.
Tabasco is one of the 31 states which, with the Federal District,...
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On 15 September, the crew of a three loco, 107-wagon Union Pacific train from Houston in Texas to Los Angeles reported they were reducing speed in a heavy thunderstorm. About 60km north of Tucson,...
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There were no injuries in a spectacular derailment in New Haven on 15 September. Reportedly 34 wagons left the track and fell into 'a tangled heap'. There were tankcars involved but they were empty....
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On 13 September, an eastbound Norfolk Southern freight train from Fostoria, Ohio - en route to Wilmington, Delaware - comprising 107 wagons hauled by two locomotives, derailed 17 wagons while...
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