Floods in the North American state of Colorado in mid-September caused serious damage to the Union Pacific (UP) and Burlington Northern Santa (BNSF) railways. It was not expected that freight trains...
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On 17 September, a double-deck bus operated by the Ottawa local authority ran through lowered barriers into the side of a passenger train locomotive, knocking it off the track. Nobody on the train was...
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On 29 August, it was reported that two kittens were loose in a subway tunnel in Brooklyn, New York. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) cut power supply to the B and Q commuter lines,...
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Minnesota state law requires rail tracks to be fenced but there was no fence at the spot in the city of St Paul where a nine-year-old gained access to the line during August. Reportedly he climbed...
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A Tunisian national charged with an accomplice of plotting an Al Qaeda-sponsored attack to derail a passenger train between Toronto and New York has refused a Canadian defence lawyer. He was quoted...
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Six people were killed when eight wagons of a freight train ran off the line in a remote swampy area in south-eastern Mexico on 25 August. The cause of the accident is still to be determined, but...
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On 29 August, the Canadian Federal Railroad Administration's (FRA) Railroad Safety Advisory
Committee (RSAC) held an emergency session 'to begin considering' additional regulatory or other safety...
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From September, Via Rail Canada is to suspend passenger service between Matapédia, New Carlisle and Gaspé in eastern Quebec die to 'infrastructure problems' on a short line, Société du chemin de fer...
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Late on 23 August, an Amtrak passenger train derailed on Union Pacific tracks in downtown San Antonio, Texas. There were no injuries. Amtrak declined to provide further detail to the press. City...
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Part of a $47 million Federal Transit Administration-funded project to renew five stations along New York City's M Line, repairs to the Central Avenue M subway station on the Myrtle Avenue Line have...
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