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Around 6:15 a.m. local time, “approximately five Union Pacific train cars derailed near the east end of the Union Pacific Steel Bridge in Portland, Oregon,” Union Pacific spokesperson Meg ...
The train derailed due to excessive speed on a curve. RAR-16-02: March 14, 2016: Southwest Chief: Cimarron, Kansas: Derailment 0 28 The train derailed due to track damage caused by an agricultural vehicle. RAB-17-11: April 3, 2016: Palmetto: Chester, Pennsylvania: Equipment collision 2 39 The train struck a backhoe being used for track work ...
7 August – Sweden – A passenger train derailed between Iggesund and Hudiksvall due to the trackbed being washed out by floods, injuring three people. [174] 10 August – Switzerland – A freight train derailed in the Gotthard Base Tunnel, damaging 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) of track and closing the tunnel until September 2024. [175]
1979 Southwest Limited (predecessor to the Southwest Chief) derailment, Lawrence, Kansas; 2 killed plus 69 injured [205] [206] 1979 Harvey, Illinois train collision ; 2 killed plus 38 injured. Revealed grave deficiencies in railroad operations that had subsided in the US by the late 1970s [ 207 ] [ 208 ]
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The lead car of the storm train spread rain across western Washington and Oregon through Saturday night, and then gained forward momentum and expanded precipita Pacific storm train poised to bring ...
April 19 – India – Sabotaged track derailed a passenger train at Siliguri, killing 23 people and injuring 77, 28 seriously. [15] May 22 – United States – Arlington, Oregon: A Union Pacific freight train derailed, killing two people, sending twenty rail cars off the track, and catching on fire. [25]
The train consisted of 23 passenger cars with Robert B. Claytor at the throttle. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] When the train was running at 58 mph (93 km/h) near the Great Dismal Swamp in Suffolk, Virginia, two of the passenger cars struck a faulty switch on the main line derailing them and the other 12 passenger cars with them. [ 4 ]