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A Norfolk Southern train conductor was killed after being struck by a dump truck at an Ohio steel facility early Tuesday morning, the company said.
The train was given clearance to proceed, police say, but a derailment device was still on the tracks. Conductor dies when train car flips onto its side and hits him, Texas police say Skip to main ...
The New York City Medical Examiner's Office is working to determine a woman's cause of death after her body was found on a subway train, police said. Around 2 p.m. Saturday, officers responded to ...
The conductor is in charge of the train, so if Smith felt that the train was out of control or there were serious problems, he should have activated the emergency brake in the caboose to stop the train. However, Smith, who appeared to be nervous while testifying, said that he did not feel that the freight was ever out of control, misjudging its ...
John Luther "Casey" Jones (March 14, 1863 – April 30, 1900) was an American railroader who was killed when his passenger train collided with a stalled freight train in Vaughan, Mississippi. Jones was a locomotive engineer for the Illinois Central Railroad , based in Memphis, Tennessee , and Jackson, Mississippi.
The driver of the passenger train was killed, while over 80 passengers were injured. [98] 19 May – Germany – Two freight trains collided near Münster, Hesse, killing one of the drivers. [99] 24 May – Germany – In Berlin, a passenger train struck a bus at a railroad crossing and derailed, no deaths were reported but four people were ...
Several hours later, at about 4:30 a.m., a northbound D train was put out of service after an angry passenger threw a can at the 38-year-old conductor, police said.
The fire killed the train operator, injured at least 16 others, and severely damaged the north part of the station and the train cars. Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) officials said the conductor and an MTA employee successfully evacuated passengers from the train and off the platform. Passengers and crew from a second train, behind ...