SUSPECTED SUICIDE ON LA TRACKS

A man who walked onto the track in front of a train between Third Street and Mission Inn Avenue at Riverside, Los Angeles, on 19 June apparently committed suicide. Ignoring the warning horn, he was...

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FATAL ACCIDENT SHUTS DOWN LINE

Over the month-end weekend, police in East St Louis, Illinois, were trying to identify an African American male with a tattooed cross covering his back and the letters "B O M" tattooed on his chest....

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MASSIVE COLLISION IN OKLAHOMA

On 24 June, two Union Pacific Railroad freight trains collided head-on about three kilometres from Goodwell, Oklahoma, leaving two drivers and a conductor 'unaccounted for', believed dead. The...

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500,000 DOLLARS FOR WRONGFUL DISMISSAL

CSX Transportation has to pay former employee Angela Smith $500,000 in punitive damages following a West Virginia Supreme Court finding that she was wrongly dismissed after complaining of sexually...

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NEWSPAPER ROLL KILLS RAILWORKER

On 19 May, a 43-year-old railway employee died in a freak accident in Philadelphia. Two rolls of newsprint paper with a mass of nearly 1,000kg each apparently shifted inside a boxcar during transit....

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THE DANGERS OF WEDDING PHOTOS ON RAIL

Operation Lifesaver (www.oli.org ), a non-profit American rail safety education organisation, is currently emphasising the risks in a trend in the USA of taking photos on railway lines, bridges etc....

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AMTRAK TRAIN DERAILS IN RHODE ISLAND

An Acela high-speed express between Boston and New York was halted on 29 March after an Amtrak passenger train derailed in North Kingstown, Rhode Island. The 285 passengers on board the Acela were...

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CANADIAN CRASH SIMILARITIES PERTURB

Canada's Federal Transportation Safety Board (TSB) has released a report into a train crash in February 2010 that injured seven people in St-Charles-de-Bellechasse when a passenger train ran into a...

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TORNADOS DISLOCATE TEXAS RAILWAYS

In the first week of April, tornados caused extensive damage in the Dallas-Fort Worth area of Texas, where many rail lines had to be closed until cleared for service following inspection. Trinity...

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DERAILMENT CAUSES GRIDLOCK IN ARLINGTON

An eastbound Union Pacific freight train that derailed in downtown Arlington, Texas, blocked a number of crossings in the central area, causing gridlock. Six tankcars came off the track but as they...

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