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Following the incident, service on the Yellow Line was fully closed and replaced with bus service, initially announced to be for a period of five days. [7] Following the release of the NTSB's preliminary report, the CTA announced that it would reduce the speed limit on the Yellow Line from 55 mph (89 km/h) to 35 mph (56 km/h), and to 25 mph (40 km/h) in the area where the crash occurred. [15]
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1972 Chicago commuter rail crash, Chicago, Illinois; 45 killed plus hundreds injured [190] [191] [192] 1973 Littlefield, Texas bus/train crash; 7 killed plus 16 injured [193] [194] 1974 Decatur tank car explosion, Decatur, Illinois; 7 killed plus hundreds injured [195] [196] 1976 1976 Beckemeyer train accident, 12 killed and four injured.
The accident's fatalities were found in the third car from the engines, sleeper car 32035, due to warping of the coach, a piece of running rail piercing it, and fire damage. [1] As a result of the accident, the NTSB made several recommendations: To the highway maintainers:
The railroad sent a special relief train with doctors and nurses. By late night all injured and most bodies had been recovered. All three mainline tracks were blocked by wreckage. It was 27 hours before trains started to slowly move through the crash site and three days before all wreckage was cleared. [7]
The train is now 600 ft (183 m) from the crossing, traveling 67 mph (108 km/h) 5.0 seconds before impact: The engineer, realizing the bus has not moved from the track, activates the emergency brakes. The train is 500 ft (152 m) from the crossing, and its speed has decreased to 60 mph (97 km/h). 7:10 am: Train impacts school bus.
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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.