On 5 August, a four-coach train derailed on the Chicago Transit Authority’s elevated Green Line. There were no injuries. The municipal fire department evacuated 78 passengers, including two in...
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Afternoon peak-hour service was suspended on 17 July following a
side-swipe collision at the busy Jamaica junction in New York. Preliminary
findings suggested that the driver of a Huntingdon-bound...
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A California photographer doing a photoshoot used a southbound train as a backdrop to his female model. He appears to have forgotten where he was standing, but a northbound train quickly put him...
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A front-seat van passenger died when it ran into the side of a train in Middletown, Ohio, on 29 July. Nine children were admitted to hospital. The crossing gate was down and the lights were flashing....
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Allegedly caught cheating on common core testing
at Teachers College Community School, Jeanene Worrell-Breeden, 49, jumped in
front of a B train at 135th Street station in New York City on 17...
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A train of more than 130 wagons derailed 26 near
Dallas, Texas, on 26 July. The crew were not hurt and the accident affected
nobody as it occurred away from any houses. A quantity of coal was...
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On 16
July near Culbertson, Montana, 22 tankcars out of 106 derailed in a Burlington
Northern Santa Fe Railway (BNSF) train bound for Anacortes, Washington state,
from Trenton, North Dakota. An...
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The New
York, Susquehanna and Western Railway operates more than 640km of track in
three states. On 21 July, one of its wagons, carrying plastic pellets,
inexplicably “ran away” down Schuyler...
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The derailing of seven flatcars carrying containers on a bridge near Bowmanville, 63km north-east of Toronto, on 18 July, disrupted passenger train service between Toronto and Ottawa, as well as...
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The driver of a semitrailer in Sandusky, Ohio, trying to reverse the rig onto an access road on 9 July, became stuck in mud with the cab on a rail line. The inevitable happened: a train arrived. The...
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