PERU REINSTATES AFTER FLOODS

Passenger services to the world heritage site at Machu Picchu in Peru are to resume in stages as repairs to the line progress. At the end of January following heavy rains, severe flooding resulting in...

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SUICIDES PLAGUE AMTRAK

Investigators believe the deaths of two men hit by Amtrak trains on the north-east corridor line 11 hours apart on 11 March were both suicides. The fatalities bring to five the number of people killed...

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THREE GIRLS KILLED ON RAIL BRIDGE

Four Florida teenagers who ignored 'no trespassing' signs are thought to have taken a short cut over a 60-metre-long railway trestle on 21 February, Evidently they did not hear a locomotive horn until...

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DRIVER SUES AFTER DERAILMENT

Locomotive driver K G Showalter is asking for $150,000 plus costs in a suit he has filed in court against the CSX Transportation company, which he holds responsible for injuries he sustained in a...

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BROKEN RAIL CAUSED IOWA DERAILMENT

On 7 March, 30 loaded Union Pacific (UP) coal wagons left the track near Jefferson in west central Iowa. They formed part of a 134-wagon train travelling from Wyoming to Illinois. There were no...

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UK'S FIRST TRAIN MURDER

On the evening of 9 July 1864, Thomas Briggs, chief clerk at a London bank in Lombard Street,, boarded a train at Fenchurch Street station - and was the first person to be murdered on a train in...

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DERAILMENT OF LENGTHY TRAIN BLOCKS CROSSINGS

Four wagons in a 120-vehicle train hauled by three locomotives derailed at the Walnut Street level crossing in Hamilton, Ohio, on 3 March. The 2km-long consist came to a standstill in an area...

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MOSES LAKE DERAILMENT

On 6 March, 25 wagons loaded with grain derailed near Wilson Creek, about 30km north of Moses Lake in Washington State. The 110-wagon train was on its way to Seattle from Florence, Minnesota. Though...

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TEHACHAPI LOOP DERAILMENT AND TUNNEL FIRE

Late on Saturday 20 February, a freight train derailed in a tunnel about 48km east of Bakersfield, 500km south of Oakland (opposite San Francisco). A tankcar carrying denatured alcohol was allowed to...

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SIGNAL CABLE THEFT: US STYLE

The DeKalb County (Illinois) sheriff's office is looking for thieves who stole 4.5km of insulated solid copper wire from telephone poles lining the track of the Dakota, Minnesota & Eastern Railroad...

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