A Canadian National freight train en route from Cedar Rapids to Manchester derailed nine wagons - some hoppers, some boxcars - near Central City, Iowa, on 18 September. No injuries were reported, and...
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A minor derailing incident involving a freight train of the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway (BNSF) occurred on 15 September in Houston, Texas. The locomotive and two wagons reportedly left the...
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Four flatcars in a Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) freight train carrying containers left the rails on 10 September just west of Highway 23 South as the train headed west from Revelstoke towards...
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On 28 August, 22 wagons in a Canadian Pacific Railway freight train came off the track near Waldeck in south-western Saskatchewan, about 200km west of Regina. There was speculation that a 'plow wind'...
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Forty local residents were evacuated from their homes on 26 August when two tankcars carrying propane derailed in Emerson, southern Manitoba. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) moved the people...
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The local fire department chief at Steubenville in Jefferson County, Ohio, estimated that nearly 1,000 litres of diesel fuel had leaked beneath the track at the scene of a Norfolk Southern derailment...
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Early on 17 August, two Union Pacific freIght trains collided head-on near Hoxie, Arkansas, about 144km northwest of Memphis, Tennessee. Two men in the leading loco of the 92-wagon southbound train...
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A truck and semi-trailer that stalled on a crossing in Allen Township, Ottawa County, Ohio, were both destroyed when hit by a Norfolk Southern freight train on 22 August. When the gates came down, the...
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Officially only one person was slightly injured when a light rail train came off the track in Portland, Oregon, on 15 August. But passenger Chelsea Gutierrez told a local television station that both...
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Protestors opposed to trains conveying Bakken crude oil through North-west USA communities locked their arms to barrels filled with concrete, which had been placed on the track accessing Tesoro's...
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