On 15 August, 23 wagons out of 106 in a Union Pacific train derailed near Osawatomie in Miami County, eastern Kansas, three landing up in the Marais Des Cygnes River. The consist, loaded with grain,...
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A container train that hit a truck loaded with gravel on a rural level crossing 6km east of Tioga in North Dakota on 13 August derailed 30 flatcars. They were carrying 'carrying everything from...
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A bizarre story from the Bismarck Tribune, published in North Dakota: Police were called to the railway in Rapid City, South Dakota, at 02:30 0n 17 August by personnel who said there was a woman in...
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This one is from the history books:
The largest single peacetime movement of people in Canada took place on 11 October 1979. A Canadian Pacific train running from Windsor to Agincourt derailed 24...
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On 2 August, four roads in the city of Raleigh, North Carolina, were blocked while crews recovered six rail wagons and their cargo of coal after a derailment. The 75-wagon CSX train from Beckley 'with...
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A 5 August derailment of 15 tankcars on the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway near Plevna in Montana resulted in a spectacular fire, as eight vehicles conveying denatured alcohol caught alight....
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The Fire Department in Arkansas City, Kansas, used some 9,000 litres of water putting out flames in a pile of 30 timber sleepers that caught fire twice during the weekend of 21-22 July. Fire chief Jon...
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On 26 July, a freight train from Chicago bound for Portland, Oregon, derailed about 32km east of Glasgow in north-east Montana. An official of the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway was quoted...
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On 22 July, a freight from Tulsa, Oklahoma, derailed seven wagons carrying sand about 60km north of its destination, Fort Worth in Texas. Other traffic was diverted to alternative routes until repairs...
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On 4 July, eight empty wagons in a train of the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway (BNSF) derailed near Saco in north-eastern Montana. Nobody was injured in the incident and it was not expected that...
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