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The 1971 Salem, Illinois derailment occurred on June 10, 1971, when Amtrak’s City of New Orleans passenger train derailed near Salem, Illinois. It is sometimes referred to as the Tonti derailment , after the unincorporated community of Tonti, Illinois , which was the site of the crash.
The train derailed, killing six people and injuring 38. [60] June 8 – West Germany – Two passenger trains collided head-on between Lenggries and Warngau due to errors by dispatchers at both stations. 41 people were killed (38 passengers, 2 drivers, 1 conductor) and 122 were injured. [61]
Map of train-truck collision, Beckemeyer, IL. 7 February 1976. As soon as the train hit the truck the engineer of the train, O.J. Coers threw on the emergency braking system in an attempt to stop the train. The front coupler of the train hit the truck near the driver's side door and ripped the body off the truck and threw it to the right of the ...
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This impact was at 10 miles per hour (16 km/h), as the train had only started off a few seconds earlier and was still halfway through pulling out of Randolph/Wabash. [1] Passengers on the train reported the impact as nothing more than a "quiet thump." [1] "The Loop" refers to the rectangular routes of Chicago's elevated trains
Recruited for Operation Pastorius were eight Germans who had lived in the United States. Two of them, Ernst Burger and Herbert Haupt, were American citizens.The others, George John Dasch, Edward John Kerling, Richard Quirin, Heinrich Harm Heinck, Hermann Otto Neubauer and Werner Thiel, had worked at various jobs in the United States.
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The Dwight Chicago and Alton depot is a former railroad depot in Dwight, Illinois, United States. The historic depot, in used by passengers from 1891 until 1971. It was again used from 1986 until 2016, by Amtrak, for service between Chicago and St. Louis. Passenger service moved from the former depot south to a new station in October 2016.