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Neither train derails, and only minor injuries to the crew and passengers of the Metrolink train are reported. [12] May 28 2002 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]
The Texas and Pacific was unable to finance construction to San Diego, and as a result the Southern Pacific was able to build from California to Sierra Blanca, Texas. In doing so, Southern Pacific used land designated for, and surveyed by Texas and Pacific, in its rail line from Yuma, Arizona , to El Paso, Texas .
The Crash at Crush: Texas' Great Pre-arranged Train Wreck. M.A. thesis, University of Texas at Austin, May 1975. Ramos, Mary G. (1993). "The Crash at Crush". Texas Almanac. Texas State Historical Association. Archived from the original on 2006-11-19. Krystek, Lee (2005). "The Great Texas Train Crash at Crush". The Museum of Unnatural Mystery.
1973 Littlefield, Texas bus/train crash; 7 killed plus 16 injured [195] [196] 1974 Decatur tank car explosion, Decatur, Illinois; 7 killed plus hundreds injured [197] [198] 1976 1976 Beckemeyer train accident, 12 killed and four injured. 1976 New Canaan Branch collision, New Canaan, Connecticut; 2 killed plus 29 injured [186] [199]
The Midland train crash was a rail crossing accident that occurred on November 15, 2012 in Midland, Texas. A freight train struck a flatbed trailer being used as a parade float carrying 26 passengers (12 of them United States Armed Forces veterans who had been wounded in action), killing four and injuring 16.
Sergio Rodriguez, 15, died after being hit by a train while on his way to school on Monday, Dec. 9, in Houston. A complaint filed by his family accused railroad company Union Pacific of operating ...
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 ...
The 2008 Chatsworth train collision occurred at 4:22:23 p.m. PDT (23:22:23 UTC) on September 12, 2008, when a Union Pacific Railroad freight train and a Metrolink commuter rail passenger train collided head-on in the Chatsworth neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, United States.