Late on 13 January, a westbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway (BNSF) freight derailed 13 wagons in the middle of Perry, Ohio, only blocks away from the public library, post office, city hall...
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On 24 December, 11 wagons in a Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway (BNSF) freight train left the rails at Winfield, Kansas. Nine fell over but two remained upright. The area was cleared within 12...
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A gust of wind is believed to have caused the derailment of a goods train on a bridge near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, on 27 December, disrupting passenger and freight service between there and...
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On 4 January, 11 wagons in a Norfolk Southern Railway freight train derailed in downtown Douglasville, Georgia, outside Atlanta. Amtrak's train 19, the Crescent Limited, was detoured via Chattanooga,...
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On 8 January, a landslide between the Washington state border and Vancouver brought rail service between the USA and Canada to a standstill. Freight trains were running again by 9 January but...
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The Union Pacific Railroad has filed a lawsuit against the owner and driver of a truck which collided with a main-line train near New Orleans on 25 November 2010. The locomotives and a number of...
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On 11 September 2001, the underground rail station beneath New York's World Trade Centre (WTC) was heavily damaged by the terrorist attack, which also flooded the tunnel linking the station to...
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On 5 December, a 15-year-old girl was struck and killed by a Baltimore to Chicago freight train in South Huntingdon, Pittsburgh, near a CSX Transportation crossing. According to the coroner's finding,...
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Level crossing accidents on America's Burlington Northern Santa Fe (BNSF) - the second-largest rail company in America - dropped 28% in the past decade. Collision-related fatalities dropped 42%....
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Early on Sunday morning 29 November, 14 wagons including 10 empty tankcars derailed in the Scotford yard, about 5km north-east of Fort Saskatchewan. Canadian National public affairs officer Warren...
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