On 23 September, an empty train derailed as it was pulling out of the West Side Yard on its way to Penn Station, shortly before 17:00. Due to its partially obstructing train access into Penn Station,...
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On 19 September, 10 tankcars carrying ethanol in a Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway (BNSF) 98-wagon train derailed between the towns of Scotland and Lesterville in south-east South Dakota. Two...
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A bicycle, apparently discarded on the track, was hit by a train on 14 September. The train was put out of action and services were disrupted at four Harlem Line (New York) stations - Williams Bridge,...
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A northbound passenger train with more than 200 people on board struck an empty vehicle on the track near Palo Alto, south of San Francisco, on 12 September. No one was hurt in the accident but...
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Three people were reported hurt after a subway train carrying about 100 passengers derailed on 11 September in Brooklyn, New York, but the incident disrupted trains running in both directions on the G...
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Nine out of 16 empty coal wagons that derailed in Randoph County, Indiana, on 2 September were on their sides, but the other seven remained upright. The train was headed west, parallel to Highway...
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On 6 August, a Washington Metropolitan Area Transit
Authority (Wmata) train derailed at the Smithsonian station in Washington DC.
Nobody was injured, as the train derailed before anyone boarded....
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On 10 August, the second locomotive and six
wagons in a freight train derailed in Spring, Texas. Union Pacific suspects that excessive heat
may have caused track buckling. A hazmat crew was called...
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A small, single-engine plane crashed on to a Long Island, New York, rail crossing on 16 August, killing the pilot, injuring a passenger and shutting down service on a branch of North America’s busiest...
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On 1 August, a Canadian Pacific coal train derailed 18 wagons near Sparwood, British Columbia. The crew were uninjured. Emergency personnel attended but due to track damage it was not possible to...
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