At about 18:00 on Sunday 8 August, heavy rain during a thunderstorm flooded a level crossing in Gold Hill on the Virginia and Truckee (V&T) tourist railway in Nevada. A steam loco doing no more than...
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Emergency management officials in Kentucky are concerned about the incidence of CSX train derailments, being especially worried about the long rail bridge over the Ohio.
Henderson County emergency...
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On Sunday 15 August, a 72 ton steel construction support structure collapsed, injuring two workers and blocking the main railway near Ysterplaat station, about 5km from the Cape Town CBD. Traction...
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Seven people from a single family were killed when a northbound train collided with a minibus carrying students and their families in the south of Israel on 6 August. About 30 were injured. Train...
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On 5 August, five wagons in a CSX coal train derailed south of Quantico, Virginia, 'ripping up' and blocking all tracks, disrupting traffic including a number of Amtrak passenger expresses. These...
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An Iowa Interstate Railroad train derailed on 9 August in Pleasant Hill, Des Moines, Iowa, causing some road closures as four wagons landed on their sides....
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Unspecified track problems on the Union Pacific between Dwight and Joliet in Central Illinois put Amtrak passengers onto buses 'for days' according to press reports. Travellers between the Bloomington...
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The Wayne County sheriff's office in Goldsboro, North Carolina, has a man in custody for allegedly stealing six metal I-beams valued at $5,000.00 from the CSX Railroad. The 34-year-old was identified...
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The following Sapa report appeared in the press on 11 August.
'Shosholoza Meyl train services were disrupted on Wednesday due to the unplanned unavailability of rolling stock, operator Passenger Rail...
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Canadian National (CN) officials are trying to establish why the locomotive of a 31-wagon train ran off the track at Sylvan Lake, Alberta, on 19 July and ploughed into the ground. A report in the Red...
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