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The Helena Train Wreck occurred in the early morning on February 2, 1989, in Helena, Montana, United States, when 49 [1] cars of a Montana Rail Link freight train that had been decoupled from their locomotives by a train crew on Mullan Pass rolled backwards down the pass, traveling nine miles back into the city of Helena and colliding with a work train at a railway crossing near the center of ...
2 0 The train struck two track workers. RAB-04-01: May 6, 2003 Silver Star: Hinesville, Georgia: Grade crossing 2 27 The train struck a lumber truck at a grade crossing. [12] April 6, 2004 City of New Orleans: Flora, Mississippi: Derailment 1 46 The train derailed due to a track defect. RAR-05-02: April 3, 2005 Empire Builder: Home Valley ...
The Custer Creek train wreck (sometimes called the Saugus train wreck) is the worst rail disaster in Montana history. It occurred on June 19, 1938 when a bridge, its foundations washed away by a flash flood, collapsed beneath Milwaukee Road's Olympian as it crossed Custer Creek, near Saugus, Montana, south-west of Terry, [1] killing 49 people. [2]
Neither train derails, and only minor injuries to the crew and passengers of the Metrolink train are reported. [12] May 28 2008 – A BNSF freight train derails east of Clarendon, Texas, along U.S. Highway 287. [13] December 21, 2008 – A BNSF train collides with a vehicle at a level crossing in Colona, Illinois. [14]
A CSX freight train crashed into a massive, tank-like Army artillery vehicle that got stuck on the tracks in South Carolina on Thursday — destroying the $1.5 million weapon on wheels, stunning ...
A Nebraska teenager has been charged with two felony counts of criminal mischief after he was accused of causing a train to derail, recording the crash and posting the video on YouTube, according ...
NORTH HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — An Amtrak train carrying nearly 100 passengers crashed into the rear section of a tractor trailer in Connecticut on Friday morning, causing minor injuries to a train ...
1950 The Milwaukee Electric Railway and Light Company Rapid Transit & Speedrail Crash, Greenfield, Wisconsin; 8 killed plus 40 injured. Crash ultimately doomed Wisconsin's only rapid transit line [156] 1950 Kew Gardens train crash, New York City; 78 killed plus hundreds injured in deadliest surface rail accident in New York. [157]