CTA ELEVATED TRAIN DERAILS

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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JAMAICA SIDE-SWIPE

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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TRAIN KILLS PHOTOSHOOTER

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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VAN HITS TRAIN: 1 DEAD

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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B TRAIN SUICIDE, NEW YORK

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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COAL TRAIN DERAILS NEAR DALLAS

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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22 TANKCARS DERAIL: RESIDENTS EVACUATED

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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RUNAWAY WAGON COLLIDES WITH MUSEUM LOCO

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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TORONTO PASSENGER SERVICES DISRUPTED

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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TRAIN DERAILS HITTING SEMITRAILER

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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