On 15 October, Washington County (Minnesota) District Court Judge Ellen Maas ruled that the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway (BNSF) was guilty of misconduct during a 2008 jury trial. She found...
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On 8 November, a hurricane resulted in Amtrak's 'Crescent', bound for New Orleans, being terminated in Atlanta, Georgia. Weather conditions and the pending landfall of Tropical Storm Ida made it...
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On 12 November, a CSX freight train derailment in Henrico County, Virginia, blocked Amtrak passenger service but caused no injuries or other hazards.
According to officials, a CSX train travelling...
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Vandals had a field day at the Connecticut Eastern Railroad Museum, smashing windows on a locomotive, the museum's roundhouse, a gift shop and several vehicles. Detectives dusted for fingerprints and...
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On 12 November, someone who had imbibed a healthy (or should that be unhealthy?) dose of alcohol sat down on a rail line at Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, stretched out and went to sleep. The driver of the...
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On 9 November, three wagons out of 104 in a Union Pacific freight train derailed near the Los Angeles downtown Union Station terminal, disrupting several Riverside commuter trains. No injuries were...
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At about 01:00 on 9 November, a woman said to have been drunk stumbled on the platform and fell onto the line at Boston's North station as a train approached. Waiting passengers alerted the driver,...
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Investigators in USA's Washington State attribute 'hundreds' of bush fires to sparks set off by railway maintenance crews. Specifically, track grinding machines are blamed for a number of blazes, many...
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On 1 November, a Canadian Pacific freight train headed south-west out of Chicago derailed in suburban Northbrook, colliding with a train running on the adjacent track in the opposite direction. Both...
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On 28 October, 19 wagons in a westbound CSX freight train derailed at Lodi, 45km west of Akron, Ohio. Local fire chief Andrew Wurstner told the press: ''All but two of the tankcars were empty. The two...
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