On 13 July, the two-person crew in a train of 83 freight wagons were killed in Bettendorf, Iowa, when their locomotive collided with stationary vehicles in a railway yard at 02:00. 'About a dozen'...
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Between July 2004 and November 2004, three Kentucky men stole railway material in the Kermit area and sold it to scrap metal merchants in Salyersville, Kentucky, according to federal charges preferred...
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On 9 July, five teenagers were killed when they drove around a lowered crossing gate and were hit by Amtrak's Detroit-Chicago train 353 in Carson Township, near Dearborn, Michigan. The locomotive...
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On 30 June, one person was killed and another seriously injured when they were pinned beneath a Metra Electric Line train on Chicago's South Side. Train services were halted for some two hours and a...
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Amtrak's southbound Heartland Flyer (which would be known in Canada or South Africa as the Oklahoma City-Fort Worth train), collided with a tractor and plough near Davis, Oklahoma, on 27 June. It...
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It happens even in the best of families. An Amtrak train derailed on track 13 at Pennsylvania station in downtown Manhattan on 23 June, resulting in 10 commuter services on the Long Island Railroad...
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Tests carried out following the fatal Red Line collision in Washington DC on 22 June, in which nine people died and 80 were hurt, suggest that the signalling system failed to detect the stationary...
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According to the Washington Post, the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA, which runs the trains in Boston), has been in contact with the Washington Metropolitan Area Transportation...
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Nine people died and 76 were taken to hospital on 22 June, when Washington DC metro train 112 ran into stationary train 214 during the afternoon rush hour. Most of the Red Line runs underground but...
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Tankcars containing hundreds of thousands of litres of ethanol exploded when a Canadian National Railway freight train derailed on 19 June at Rockford, Illinois, about 130km north-west of Chicago. A...
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