Amtrak, the United States national intercity passenger train operator, gave notice on 27 August that service to Louisiana would be suspended on 28 and 29 August due to the approaching Hurricane Isaac....
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On 21 August, a North Carolina woman was awarded $685,000 damages in a suit against her former employer, the CSX Railroad Company. In 2008, while working as a train conductor, her private truck was...
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On 29 October 2006, Serge Loutala (now 39) lost the sight in his right eye while travelling in a Metrorail train near Netreg station on the Cape Flats. There was no glass in the window beside his seat...
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From April 2006 to December 2011, copper cable worth R3.12 billion was stolen from Eskom' Transnet and the Passenger Rail Agency of SA (Prasa). The Democratic Alliance's Pieter van Dalen said the...
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On 5 August, the body of an unknown man was found on the railway near the Gold One Cooke Plant. Witnesses said the driver spotted movement on the line, sounded his siren and reduced speed but could...
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On 15 August, 23 wagons out of 106 in a Union Pacific train derailed near Osawatomie in Miami County, eastern Kansas, three landing up in the Marais Des Cygnes River. The consist, loaded with grain,...
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A container train that hit a truck loaded with gravel on a rural level crossing 6km east of Tioga in North Dakota on 13 August derailed 30 flatcars. They were carrying 'carrying everything from...
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A bizarre story from the Bismarck Tribune, published in North Dakota: Police were called to the railway in Rapid City, South Dakota, at 02:30 0n 17 August by personnel who said there was a woman in...
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This one is from the history books:
The largest single peacetime movement of people in Canada took place on 11 October 1979. A Canadian Pacific train running from Windsor to Agincourt derailed 24...
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According to Look Local Online on 31 July, a Transnet Freight Rail driver reported a body 'with its head and arm detached' on the tracks at Deerness station in Gezina on Pretoria's northern suburbs...
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