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1973 Littlefield, Texas bus/train crash; 7 killed plus 16 injured [195] [196] 1974 Decatur tank car explosion, Decatur, Illinois; 7 killed plus hundreds injured [197] [198] 1976 1976 Beckemeyer train accident, 12 killed and four injured. 1976 New Canaan Branch collision, New Canaan, Connecticut; 2 killed plus 29 injured [186] [199]
Rudy Bladel (December 8, 1932 – November 15, 2006), known as The Railway Killer, was an American serial killer who committed the murders of seven railway employees in the Rust Belt region from 1963 to 1978. [1] Convicted of three of them, Bladel was sentenced to life imprisonment, and later died from thyroid cancer in 2006. [2]
The train collided with a work train due to an improperly set switch. RAR-88-04: January 29, 1988 Night Owl: Chester, Pennsylvania: Equipment collision 0 24 The train struck track maintenance equipment. RAR-89-01: August 5, 1988 Empire Builder: Saco, Montana: Derailment 0 106 The train derailed due to a track defect. RAR-89-03: September 28 ...
He also hit the emergency brakes but his train, which had been traveling at 33 mph, did not stop for seven seconds. By then, its front end was about 1.5 railcar lengths past the contractors.
John and Simeon Reno of the Reno gang robbed an Ohio and Mississippi Railway passenger train. The men boarded the train and entered the an Adam Express Co. car and intimidated employee Elem Miller into giving them the keys, the men then emptied the safe and left the train once it stopped. [4] [5] Marshfield, Scott County, Indiana: 22 May 1868 ...
Four passengers in the dining car are killed and about 20 people are injured. [142] [143] [144] October 24 – Canada – At a level crossing in Parkland, Alberta, a gasoline truck crashes into the rear car of a 2-car CPR passenger train going from Lethbridge to Calgary. The train derails, the gasoline burns fiercely, and the truck driver and 5 ...
A train derailment occurred in Spokane in 1991, in which an unidentified person was found to have severed the airline to the rear cars' brakes. The suspect was killed in the act and his body was recovered wearing a black bandanna with the signature silver-ring conch.
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