On 29 July, 12 wagons of a CSX Railroad freight train derailed near Greenville in South Carolina's Greenwood County. There were no injuries though an empty tanker with residue from a "caustic"...
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Traffic on the busy main-line north of New York to Connecticut was seriously disrupted on 7 August when a locomotive caught fire near Fairfield station. Only one of the four tracks remained usable...
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On 2 July, the driver of a Long Island Railroad morning peak-hour commuter service allowed a passenger to operate the train, with 400 people on board. Both men were arrested by the Metropolitan...
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Police in Menomonie, Wisconsin, are looking for a thief or thieves that stole about 2,000 metres of copper cable from the Union Pacific Railroad (UP). According to press reports they tracked a suspect...
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About 90 Montana Rail Link (MRL) employees in the Laurel-Billings area (Montana, USA) have been placed on temporary leave following a tunnel collapse near Helena, which caused a reduction in rail...
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On 20 July, a 102-year-old lifting bridge over the Niantic River stuck twice and did not reopen for nearly 24 hours. Boat traffic was badly disrupted as the bridge jammed in the closed position....
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Eleven wagons of a Union Pacific train derailed in Cleveland, Jackson County, Wisconsin, on 23 July, but the cargo of lumber, steel and liquid molasses was undamaged and there were no injuries.
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On 19 June, 12 of 14 tankcars in a 114-wagon train, each containing 135,000 litres of ethanol, which derailed at the Mulford Road crossing in Rockford, Illinois, caught fire. The two other derailed...
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No injuries were reported on 16 July when 34 wagons of a Union Pacific (UP) coal train derailed about 13km west of Limon, Colorado. Company spokesman Mark Davis was quoted saying that crews worked...
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Four people were hurt critically, 23 'seriously' and about 35 others were also treated in hospital after a San Francisco L Taraval light rail vehicle ran into a K Ingleside stationary train on 18...
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