RAIL SCRAP SOLD FOR 14,000 DOLLARS

On 5 August, police were told of material worth $14,000 being stolen from the North Coast Railroad company between the night of 28 July and the following morning. On 9 August, a second theft from the...

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CAR LANDS ON LINE

An elderly West Terre Haute (Indiana) couple was taken to hospital following what press reports described as a 'single-vehicle accident' on the Interstate 70 highway. On 16 September, in the middle of...

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FALLING SPIKES

CSX Transportation officials hope that "better housekeeping" by their maintenance crews will eliminate the recent problem of heavy metal spikes falling from a bridge on downtown Cincinnati's western...

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KEY BRIDGE COLLAPSES IN DERAILMENT

The collapse of a steel bridge between Phalaborwa and Hoedspruit in Limpopo at about 03:00 on 20 September as the result of a derailment will inevitably cause severe disruption in the movement of...

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DELVILLE WOOD DERAILMENT

Thirteen wagons of cement train 5519 derailed on 20 September at Dellville Wood, 42km from Durban, on the main-line to Johannesburg. On Heritage Day 24 September, passengers on the unique steam-hauled...

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BELGIAN PASSENGER TRAINS COLLIDE

Some 40 injury cases were reported following a head-on collision between two passenger trains at Arlon in southern Belgium, near the border with Luxembourg. All were treated at the scene except for...

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BIG RIG IN NEAR MISS WITH TRAIN

On 14 September, the driver of a 'big rig' pulling a flatbed trailer loaded with green plastic pipes applied his brakes and steered right when he saw a train approaching a crossing in Churchill,...

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LOCOMOTIVE ON FIRE

Rail traffic was halted for eight hours on 8 September when a locomotive hauling coal alongside the James River in Goochland County, Virginia, caught fire. Personnel from five counties fought the...

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DRIVER LOSES ARM IN TRAIN WRECK

The driver of a Union Pacific train that rear-ended a slower freight in Fontana near Colton in Southern California on 10 September was trapped on board. Steel I-beams carried on the train in front...

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AMTRAK PASSENGER FOUND DEAD AT TRACKSIDE

Passenger Barbara Arteta, 63, who went missing from a southbound Amtrak train on 9 September, was found dead beside the track in Jesup, Georgia. Husband Eugene Arteta, with whom she was travelling...

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