The Connecticut Department of Transportation (DoT) is to relocate and realign a level crossing in Long Ridge Road, Redding, where two young people lost their lives in a collision with a train during...
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On 17 March, a freight train derailment near New Haven, Connecticut, caused a day-long disruption to Amtrak passenger service between Boston and New York. The first train operating on a normal...
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Construction workers excavating during February at the site of a new apartment block in Wichita, Kansas, made a strange discovery. More than a metre down, they came across what looked like a railway...
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Shortly after 07:00 on 5 March, fire broke out in the leading locomotive of two hauling a Union Pacific freight train travelling from St Paul, Minnesota, to North Platte, Nebraska. The incident...
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More people are killed trespassing on the railway in the United States than in level crossing collisions. Vehicle-train collisions and injuries at level crossings decreased 5.1% to 1,953 in 2012 but...
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The Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway (BNSF) had 200 reported landslides in the Pacific North-west since October 2012, specifically in the section between Everett and Seattle. Improvements costing...
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America's national Route 5 Highway was closed on 22 February near West Springfield in Massachusetts following the derailing of two tankcars on the adjoining railway. One of the vehicles contained...
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Firefighters from Quincy and Port Jefferson attended a locomotive 'with its engine room ablaze' in the early hours of 27 February in the city of Sidney in Shelby county, Ohio. The fire was reported...
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There is a problem at an elderly railway bridge crossing 273rd West Avenue in the city of Bristow, Oklahoma. Residents duck their heads when driving underneath because from time to time, large lumps...
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On 19 February, signal problems halted Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway (BNSF) train 1255 outside Union station in Chicago in the afternoon rush hour. Metra spokeswoman Meg Reile told the media...
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