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The Yellowstone River bridge collapse was a train derailment that occurred on June 24, 2023, near Columbus, Montana, United States. A bridge that crosses the Yellowstone River collapsed, causing several cars of a freight train carrying hazardous materials to fall into the water below. The incident resulted in environmental concerns and internet ...
2021 Montana train derailment, Joplin, Montana; 3 killed and 49 injured. [301] [302] 2022 Missouri train derailment, Mendon, Missouri; 4 killed and 150 injured. [303] 2023 Ohio train derailment, East Palestine, Ohio. No fatalities, but many nearby residents reported symptoms of illness [304]
March 30, 2023 – A BNSF train carrying ethanol and corn syrup derailed in Raymond, Minnesota, near Minneapolis. The train caught fire but no injuries were reported. [37] Sunday, October 15 – southbound coal freight train derailed, partially destroyed the rail bridge over Interstate 25 north of Pueblo, Colorado. Driver of semi truck passing ...
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]
MRL #390, an EMD F45, leads a freight train Montana Rail Link boxcar on the Cedar Rapids & Iowa City Railway at Cedar Rapids. Montana Rail Link's independent status and main line dates back to October 31, 1987, when MRL under Missoula businessman Dennis Washington commenced a 60-year lease of Burlington Northern's southern Montana main line between Sandpoint, Idaho and Huntley, Montana, near ...
It was in partnership with real estate firm Heartland Rail Corporation that the IAIS was able to operate. Heartland purchased the right-of-way and infrastructure for $ 31 million (of which, $15 million was a loan from the Iowa Railway Finance Authority ), and then leased it to IAIS for operations.
On April 11, 1996, a Montana Rail Link train carrying chlorine derailed near Alberton. [7] [8] 350 people were injured by chlorine inhalation. 1,000 people were evacuated from Alberton and from Frenchtown. Interstate 90 was shut down for nineteen days. The incident has been described as the largest chemical spill from a train in United States ...
The young and widowed Alice Reed made a living by washing clothes until, in April, 1881, she remarried to John Schock, a Civil War veteran who was in charge of the McAdow Ferry at Coulson. [ 11 ] In 1901, the post office was established as Reed, but the name was changed to Reed Point in 1906.