On 11 September, a six-loco, 140-wagon Union Pacific coal train from the Twentymile Coal company's Foidel Creek Mine in Colorado lost some of its wheels. More precisely, one wagon in the consist...
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On 13 September, an eastbound freight of the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway (BNSF) derailed 19 wagons 5km west of Casselton, North Dakota. No injuries were reported but damage was considerable,...
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Infrastructure maintenance backlogs are a recurring theme in reports about Africa's railways, with derailments often blamed on poor track. Less frequently ' though this seems to be pure luck ' bridges...
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On 3 September, the Chicago Tribune reports, Theodore Howard, 49, a local man who hired a crack addict to kill his ex-girlfriend while she controlled a Metra suburban train, was convicted by a federal...
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A Burlington Northern Santa Fe (BNSF) train bound for Amarillo, Texas, carrying hazardous materials, was boarded in western Colorado by two men and a girl, aged between 25 and 31. They entered an...
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On 3 September, police in Anaheim (where Disneyland is located) where called by local residents who had noticed two two-year-olds on the railway, used at this point roughly every half hour by...
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In August 2007, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was notified that an oily sheen was reportedly seen on the stream that flows through the town of Whitefish, Montana, originating at Whitefish...
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Ten people died and hundreds were reported injured in a passenger train crash near the Cameroon capital Yaoundé on 29 August. On the previous day, a train with 13 wagons carrying gas derailed to the...
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On 28 August, a rental truck running on a road beneath a Norfolk Southern overbridge in downtown Greensboro jammed fast under the structure. No injuries were reported and the span was not damaged. The...
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A potentially serious accident was averted on 17 August when the driver of a Belfast-Dublin main-line train spotted subsidence while crossing the Broadmeadow Estuary viaduct in north County Dublin. On...
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