At 01:00 on 24 November, Moorhead (Minnesota) police tried to stop 25-year-old Mitchell Jackson for not wearing his seatbelt. He drove off, took a wrong turn onto the BNSF and proceeded down the rail...
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Jan Botha, lead author of a recent study on suicidal and accidental deaths on Caltrain [San Francisco-San Jose] tracks, identifying time and location patterns, hopes the study's results can be applied...
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An out-of-service MARC train, operated by an Amtrak crew, was being backed into Washington Union Station. It collided with an Amtrak shunting movement pulling a dome car and a privately-owned coach....
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Just after midnight on 27 October, the police in Taylor (Williamson County, Texas) arrested a man who had parked his Ford pick-up on the railway track. According to press reports, he 'failed a field...
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From a Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) report:
On 31 October, three Montreal teenagers who had been decorating a wall with graffiti failed to notice an approaching train which ran them down,...
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Amtrak and South Eastern Philadelphia Transit Authority (Septa) regional lines through North Philadelphia were suspended for several hours on 25 October because of a man stuck 40 feet up a pole next...
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One of the fundamental drawbacks of the railway is the unavoidable seizing up of traffic if one train breaks down: the operator cannot simply drive around the obstruction. The problem is at its worst...
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In an early morning derailment on 13 October, a locomotive and 21 wagons left the track at Marche, a small community between Oak Grove and Maumelle in Arkansas. The Union Pacific train from North...
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Two tornadoes touched ground at Bellemont, west of Flagstaff in the northern region of Arizona, early on 6 October. An eastbound container train was hit, derailing 28 wagons. Several semi-trailer...
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Flooding that followed Tropical Storm Nicole in Eastern North Carolina was caused by record rainfall in several areas. The North Carolina Railroad Company NCRC), which owns and manages the 507km line...
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