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June 10 – United States – 1971 Salem, Illinois, derailment: Amtrak train number 1, the northbound City of New Orleans derailed at 90 miles per hour (145 km/h) due to a false flange on a flat wheel caused by a seized axle bearing. Eleven people died and over were 150 injured in Amtrak's first major incident.
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]
1863 Chunky Creek Train Wreck, Hickory, Mississippi; ~75 killed plus ~25 injured.All but one of the dead were Confederate reinforcements headed for Vicksburg, with the disaster--Mississippi's deadliest rail disaster to date--further hindering the city's defenses against Union forces [12]
A freight train traveling through Texas’s Reeves County derailed when it collided with a tractor-trailer, before slamming into a building, authorities said, leaving two people dead and three ...
PECOS, Texas (AP) — Federal officials investigating the deadly West Texas collision between at Union Pacific train and a tractor-trailer hauling a heavy equipment said Friday they were trying to determine why the tractor-trailer was stopped on the tracks, leading to the crash that derailed the train and propelled the heavy equipment into the air.
Influx of company money. This message has been boosted by a $104 million goodwill blitz by Norfolk Southern, including $21 million dispersed directly to residents as part the company’s “Making ...
The derailed train collided with stationary rail cars on an adjacent yard track and all four passenger cars and the locomotive of the passenger train derailed. The two train crew members in the locomotive cab were killed. [63] August 2 – India – Gaisal train disaster: Two express trains collided head-on, killing more than 285 people.
Booms are set up in the water along the shoreline to contain the spill.