Tankcars containing hundreds of thousands of litres of ethanol exploded when a Canadian National Railway freight train derailed on 19 June at Rockford, Illinois, about 130km north-west of Chicago. A...
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The United States Federal Railroad Administration recently released preliminary safety statistics for the first quarter of 2009. Compared with the first three months of 2008, reportable train...
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According to a report in The Herald, published in Harare, three people narrowly escaped death on 16 June when a Toyota Coaster minibus collided with a commuter train at the Lytton-Paisley level...
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On 15 June, the locomotive of a Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway (BNSF) freight train departing to Portland, Oregon, derailed when it was in a collision with a train shunting in the yard at...
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Somebody climbed onto a shed belonging to the Arizona Eastern Railroad on 13 June and stole a video camera worth about $2,000 which records events at the adjacent level crossing when a train passes....
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On 4 June, a bus collided with a light rail train carrying 30 passengers in downtown Phoenix, Arizona, the worst crash on the system since it opened last year. Eight people were taken to hospital with...
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Very early on 16 June, a light rail vehicle on a southbound training run derailed in Houston, Texas, and collided with a power pole. No members of the public were on board and no one was hurt. It took...
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The bodyshell of one of New York state's new Kawasaki M-8 coaches failed a safety design test recently, but this will not delay the 2010 start of delivery for 300 vehicles in the $713 million order,...
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At least' 10 people died and 29 were hurt when one train ran into another and derailed between the towns of Tenke and Tshilongo in the province of Katanga, Société Nationale des Chemins de fer...
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