A freight train that stalled just after midnight on Saturday 9 August in the town of Lancaster, Massachusetts, somehow derailed 'about 20 wagons', waking the neighbourhood, when it tried to restart....
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Three teenagers in an SUV somehow managed to roll it on Interstate 25 in Pueblo, Colorado, on 10 August at a point where the highway runs beside the railway. An 18-year-old who was literally hurled...
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Two people died on 8 August when they drove around lowered level crossing booms in Gary, Indiana, and were hit by a Chicago-Ohio CSX freight train. A stunned witness, who was behind the car, said the...
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Three employees of the defunct Montreal, Maine and Atlantic Railway (MMAR) are on trial in Canada, charged with 47 counts of criminal negligence causing death. This follows the July 2013 incident when...
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Two locomotives and four passenger coaches of a White Pass & Yukon tourist train left the track in south-east Alaska on 23 July, leaving nine occupants with light injuries. The excursion was on a...
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Three locomotives and 10 freight wagons left the track at Slinger, Wisconsin (about 30km north of Milwaukee) on 20 July when a train operated by the Wisconsin and Southern Railroad collided with a...
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Huge fires, some burning for more than a week, seriously disrupted train operations in Washington state late in July. Both the Burlington Northern Santa Fe and Union Pacific railways deployed special...
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Nineteen wagons in a westbound freight train derailed on 3 July about 16km west of Alberton in western Montana. Six flatcars were carrying Boeing 737 fuselages and three of those landed
in the...
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On 13 July during a storm, one of three monorail trains was stranded without power several metres above ground at Disney World in Florida. Passengers said the train stopped after they saw a lightning...
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A Norfolk Southern freight train derailed 15 wagons in Lucas County, Ohio on 3 July. Twelve spilled their contents. People living near the line were evacuated because of liquid running out of tankcars...
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