TRAIN CREW HURT IN CROSSING COLLISION

Three crew members on a CSX Transportation freight train were taken to hospital after a scrap metal truck and trailer grounded and stuck fast on a level crossing in Marietta, Atlanta. The train driver...

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TEN OFF IN YORKVILLE

On 24 January, ten wagons in a freight train derailed in suburban Yorkville, Illinois. Nobody was hurt in the accident, which did not itself cause an obstruction, but a level crossing was partly...

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RAILWAY SUICIDES IN NEW JERSEY

Within two years, five people have died in front of trains at a single station - Hamilton - in New Jersey. Amtrak expresses pass through at over 200km/h and each of the deaths was an apparent suicide,...

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TRAIN DERAILS IN CROSSING COLLISION, TEN HURT

On 1 February, the lead locomotive and 'at least' two coaches of an Amtrak intercity express derailed after colliding with a semi-trailer rig stuck on a crossing at Leoni, 72km south of Lansing,...

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TRUCK WEDGED IN RAILWAY BRIDGE

A man wanting to cross the Savannah River from Augusta, Georgia, into South Carolina on 20 January somehow managed to drive his Ford pickup onto a railway bridge where it became wedged between the...

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CHICAGO DERAILMENT DELAYS COMMUTERS

Major delays affected hundreds of commuters following a derailment in a Waukegan, Chicago rail yard on 20 January. Trains on Metra's Union Pacific/North Line were running up to 90 minutes late in the...

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ELEVEN WAGONS DERAIL NEAR PRINCE GEORGE

On 18 January, a southbound Canadian National freight train derailed 11 wagons about 16km north of Prince George, a town 746km north of Vancouver in British Columbia. There was nothing hazardous in...

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SEVENTEEN WAGONS OFF BRIDGE

On 21 January, 31 grain wagons derailed and 17 fell off a bridge spanning the Battle River Valley near Wainwright in Canada's Alberta. The steel structure was damaged and repairs are expected to take...

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POCATELLO DERAILMENT

Shortly before midnight on 30 December, three Union Pacific (UP) container flat wagons derailed in Pocatello, Idaho. According to UP director of corporate and media relations Aaron Hunt, nobody was...

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THREE CSX TRAINS COLLIDE

(Official statement by the CSX Transportation company, USA: 'Three CSX trains collided in Porter County in Northwest Indiana, about 14:15 (Eastern Time) on Friday 6 January. Two employees on one...

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