Sustained heavy floods that severed numerous rail corridors in Colorado in mid-September halted traffic on some important lines for several weeks, necessitating substantial repair work. Managing...
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On 30 September, an empty passenger train parked in a Chicago yard somehow came to life and ran away down the main-line. Fortunately it did not have the opportunity to build up speed. At the first...
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Canadian minister of transport Lisa Raitt recently held discussions about rail safety with the Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM), which represents 2,000 communities across Canada. In a press...
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What might have happened' is seldom newsworthy. Maybe that's just as well, because otherwise a minor collision in Chicago on 30 September could have made headlines around the world. An empty passenger...
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The Montreal, Maine and Atlantic Railway (MMAR), whose fuel train ran away in July, causing 47 deaths and massive destruction in the town of Lac-Mégantic, has been given permission to continue...
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In an unprecedented situation, train services on the busy north-east corridor north of New York were severely disrupted following a substation failure on 25 September. The high-speed Acela service...
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According to a recent study issued by the University of Illinois at Chicago's Urban Transportation Centre (UTC). Increased education and enforcement efforts by municipalities and public transport...
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On 25 September, a power supply problem attributed to a faulty high-voltage feeder cable knocked out New York city's busy Metro-North commuter service to New Haven. Amtrak intercity trains, including...
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The horrific fuel train runaway, derailment and subsequent explosions in Lac-Mégantic, Quebec (death toll 47), have been a wake-up call to communities across Canada. At White Rock south of Vancouver,...
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Chicago is known deservedly as America's 'windy city'. On the night of 18 September, seven wagons in a Union Pacific freight train were blown off the line on the city's West Side. Incredibly, each was...
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