The locomotive of a Toronto-Ottawa passenger train caught fire after nightfall on 16 August. More than 300 passengers and crew were evacuated from the train in an isolated, swampy area just south of...
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On the evening of 16 August, one of the locomotives of a Union Pacific freight train derailed in north-west Houston, Texas. The train was moving slowly at the time, but the fuel tank ruptured and a...
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On 20 July, 14 vehicles in a Union Pacific freight train comprising about 130 wagons derailed at Manteca in central California. 'Warped rails and torn up ties [sleepers] lay alongside grain and box...
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On 29 July, 12 wagons of a CSX Railroad freight train derailed near Greenville in South Carolina's Greenwood County. There were no injuries though an empty tanker with residue from a "caustic"...
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In the financial year ended 31 March, according to South Africa's Railway Safety Regulator (RSR), the number of incidents relating to open train doors on Metrorail remained 'high'. Over 74 were...
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According to a report from the South African Press Association, a passenger was fatally shot in an overnight Johannesburg-Durban train at about 23:00 on 11 August. His wife and another man were taken...
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On 25 February, diesel loco 34 047 heading a freight train from Skoonspruit to Bothaville in the Free State was involved in a head-on collision at Schuttesdraai. The driver had disregarded...
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Traffic on the busy main-line north of New York to Connecticut was seriously disrupted on 7 August when a locomotive caught fire near Fairfield station. Only one of the four tracks remained usable...
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On 2 July, the driver of a Long Island Railroad morning peak-hour commuter service allowed a passenger to operate the train, with 400 people on board. Both men were arrested by the Metropolitan...
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Police in Menomonie, Wisconsin, are looking for a thief or thieves that stole about 2,000 metres of copper cable from the Union Pacific Railroad (UP). According to press reports they tracked a suspect...
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