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Chatsworth September 12 – United States – 2008 Chatsworth train collision: A northbound Metrolink (California) double-deck commuter train ran a red light and collided head-on with a Union Pacific Railroad freight train pulled by three engines at about 60 mph (97 km/h) and derailed; the derailed Metrolink engine was knocked 30 feet (9.1 m ...
The Howard Street Tunnel fire (also known as the Baltimore Freight Rail Crash) was a 60-car CSX Transportation freight train derailment that occurred in the Howard Street Tunnel, a freight through-route tunnel under Howard Street in Baltimore, Maryland, on July 18, 2001. The derailment sparked a chemical fire that raged for five or six days and ...
1863 Chunky Creek Train Wreck, Hickory, Mississippi; ~75 killed plus ~25 injured.All but one of the dead were Confederate reinforcements headed for Vicksburg, with the disaster--Mississippi's deadliest rail disaster to date--further hindering the city's defenses against Union forces [12]
The train collided with a stopped CSX freight train. RAR-19-02: September 25, 2021: Empire Builder: Joplin, Montana: Derailment 3 [14] 50 The train derailed due to a track defect. RIR-23-08: June 27, 2022: Southwest Chief: Mendon, Missouri: Grade crossing 4 150 [15] The train derailed after colliding with a dump truck obstructing a railroad ...
May 11 –Tramlink opens in London, the first trams in London since 1952, largely on former heavy rail or reserved track formation. [7]May 23 – Electro-Motive Division delivers to the Union Pacific the first five EMD SD70M diesel locomotives in the largest single order (1,000 locomotives) for diesel locomotives ever by a single railroad.
The building had 10 gates for trains, and its 18-story tower held 500 offices. In the station’s heyday in the 1940s, more than 4,000 passengers passed through each day .
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Both train drivers, two additional train crew on board the InterCity 225, and six passengers were killed, all as a result of the collision with the freight train. [15] Survivors of the crash included Andrew Hill, a train driver who was travelling in the cab of the freight train, supervising the experienced driver who was learning a new route. [16]