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The 45th car in the train derails such that it blocks the parallel second main track, into which an eastbound BNSF oil train collides. Dash 9-44CW 4934 strikes the car and almost 500,000 gallons of crude oil are released from the oil train; the oil catches fire, forcing the evacuation of 1,400 nearby residents.
Officials say 23 BNSF traincars badly damaged in accident
On Oct. 15, 2023, a BNSF train derailed about five miles north of Pueblo, causing multiple train cars to crash down to I-25 and killing semi-truck driver, 60-year-old Lafollette Henderson.
The train had two locomotives and eight railcars, all of which derailed. [2] From front to rear, there were two GE Genesis P42DC locomotives (133 and 166), one Viewliner baggage car, and seven Superliner railcars (a transition sleeper car, two sleeping cars, a dining car, a sightseer lounge/café car, and two coach cars).
The train conductor told a BNSF investigator that a misaligned switch led to the crash and that a padlock that was supposed to be attached to the switch was missing, the documents said.
The derailment occurred on the Hi-Line, a portion of the BNSF's Northern Transcon. [4] [5] BNSF conducted its most recent inspection of the section through Joplin on September 23, 2021. The last major Amtrak accident in Montana occurred in 1988, when an Empire Builder train hit a track buckle and derailed in Saco. [6]
A woman riding an inbound BNSF train was killed Wednesday morning when the train and a truck crashed in a fiery wreck, according to officials. The wreck was the second in the transit agency’s ...
List of BNSF Railway accidents and incidents; 0–9. 2002 Placentia train collision This page was last edited on 10 April 2018, at 08:31 (UTC). Text ...