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Two Union Pacific employees are dead and three people are injured after a train hit a tractor-trailer stopped on the railroad tracks in Pecos, Texas, causing it to derail.
Two Union Pacific operators were killed early Thursday when their train crashed into parked freight cars near the Salton Sea, officials said. The freight train had been traveling through a ...
Derailment 1 27 The train derailed due to flooding of the tracks. RAR-83-02: June 23, 1982 Coast Starlight: Gibson, California: Fire 2 61 A fire of unknown cause took place in a passenger car. RAR-83-03: April 3, 1983 Crescent: Rockfish, Virginia: Derailment 0 24 The train derailed due to debris from a landslide. RAR-83-10 July 28, 1983 State House
29 July – United States – In Tempe, Arizona, a Union Pacific train derailed on the Salt River Bridge over Tempe Town Lake, injuring one. [24] 31 July – Portugal – Soure train crash: An Alfa Pendular high-speed passenger train derailed after colliding with a catenary maintenance vehicle, killing two and injuring 43. [25]
1991 Union Square derailment, New York City; 5 killed plus 161 injured [228] [229] [230] 1992 Nemadji River bridge derailment, Superior, Wisconsin; no direct human deaths but many animals—wild and domestic—confirmed killed by chemical leak; 50,000 to 80,000 people evacuated from Superior and from Duluth, Minnesota [231] [232] [233] [234]
Union Pacific's new CEO Jim Vena just took over the top spot at the railroad last month. Union Pacific has a network of 32,400 miles (52,000 kilometers) of track in 23 Western states.
June 28, 2004 – A westbound Union Pacific Railroad freight train collides with the middle of an eastbound BNSF freight that was entering a siding at Macdona, Texas. Several cars on both trains and the four UP locomotives were derailed; one of the derailed tank cars was punctured, releasing liquefied chlorine which vaporized into a cloud ...
On March 13, 2019, mid-day winds of around 80 mph derailed the rear 26 cars of a double stack train on the Union Pacific high steel trestle over the Canadian River south of Logan, New Mexico. [33] One reason for choosing broad gauge (17% wider than standard gauge) for BART was the greater stability in high winds and perhaps earthquakes. [34] [35]