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The Brooks derailment was a rail accident that occurred in Brooks, Bullitt County, Kentucky, United States, about 15 miles south of Louisville. [1]At 08:43 EST on January 16, 2007, a CSX Transportation train pulling 80 cars from Birmingham, Alabama, to Louisville, Kentucky, derailed.
Pages in category "Railway accidents and incidents in Kentucky" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
1953 Pennsylvania Railroad train wreck, Washington, D.C.; 0 killed but 44 injured; served as inspiration for the ending of Silver Streak (film) 1953 New York Central Railroad Accident, Conneaut, Ohio; 21 killed plus 49 injured. The second of only two U.S. rail disasters to involve four trains [158]
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On the afternoon of November 22, 2023, at approximately 2:23 PM ET, a CSX mixed freight train derailed in Rockcastle County, Kentucky, causing a major spill of molten sulfur chemicals near Roundstone Creek, a creek located northwest of Livingston. Only one member of the CSX train's two-person crew was treated at the scene for minor injuries.
The collision at Shepherdsville, Kentucky on the Louisville and Nashville Railroad killed 49 people (some sources say 51 [2]), and left a similar number seriously injured. [3] It is the worst and deadliest train wreck of Kentucky's history. [3] [4]
April 12 – United States – A head-end collision of a work train and a through freight train occurred near Pineville, Kentucky killing two. [9] [10]May 26 - United States - “Electric cars racing for a switch while running in opposite directions, at the rate of 40 miles per hour (64 km/h), cost five lives in the afternoon by a terrific collision, in which over forty prominent people were ...
The possible cause of this accident was the significant rain that caused a lot of floods in some of the Midwest areas that day, which was also the cause of the No. 19 wreck in Iowa. According to The Railway and Locomotive Historical Society Bulletin No. 98 by Aurele A. Durocher, [ 63 ] it took about a month to get the 14 re-railed, repaired ...