Canadian National (CN) officials are trying to establish why the locomotive of a 31-wagon train ran off the track at Sylvan Lake, Alberta, on 19 July and ploughed into the ground. A report in the Red...
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Several derailments have occurred on Dahlgren Junction industrial track in Stafford County, Virginia but industry and federal rail officials can discern no 'pattern'. In the latest instance, three...
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On 4 August, extensive delays were caused to rail traffic at Melrose, Iowa following the derailment of 29 wagons in a 119-wagon coal train. According to the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway's...
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At about 06:40 on 26 July, two locomotives and 19 wagons of a train conveying 'mixed freight' derailed on the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway (BNSF) in New Mexico, about 14km south of San...
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On 16 July, a CSX locomotive and four freight wagons, including three tankcars carrying ethanol, jumped the track in a Chattanooga, Tennessee, yard but did not overturn. Nobody was injured and the...
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On 8 July, a Union Pacific Railroad coal train en route from Wyoming to south-east Missouri derailed about 8km north-west of Onaga in nort-east Kansas. No injuries were reported.
According to company...
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On 11 July, three days after 23 wagons in a Union Pacific coal train left the track near Onaga, Kansas, another of the company's coal trains derailed 43 of its 134 wagons near Silver Lake. Some coal...
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Amtrak service between Harrisburg and Philadelphia was disrupted on 13 July during heavy storms that swept across .central Pennsylvania. A tree fell across the catenary near Lancaster, cutting power...
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On 5 July, an Amtrak passenger train ran into sleepers which had been deliberately placed across the CSX rails about 200 metres east of the Cattaraugus Creek bridge in the Cattaraugus Reservation, in...
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Following a fire that caused serious damage to the Lobato timber trestle bridge, the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad C&TS) has reorganised operations into two sections. To restore service from Chama,...
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