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The train derailed due to a set of switch points moving under the train. RAR-93-02: April 29, 1992 Colonial: Newport News, Virginia: Grade crossing 1 54 The train struck a dump truck at a grade crossing. [10] August 12, 1992 Colonial: Newport News, Virginia: Derailment 0 74 The train derailed due to a sabotaged switch. [11] September 22, 1993 ...
1979 Southwest Limited (predecessor to the Southwest Chief) derailment, Lawrence, Kansas; 2 killed plus 69 injured [205] [206] 1979 Harvey, Illinois train collision ; 2 killed plus 38 injured. Revealed grave deficiencies in railroad operations that had subsided in the US by the late 1970s [ 207 ] [ 208 ]
The train consisted of 23 passenger cars with Robert B. Claytor at the throttle. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] When the train was running at 58 mph (93 km/h) near the Great Dismal Swamp in Suffolk, Virginia, two of the passenger cars struck a faulty switch on the main line derailing them and the other 12 passenger cars with them. [ 4 ]
A massive fire and plumes of black smoke over downtown Lynchburg, Virginia, as a freight train carrying thousands of gallons of crude oil jumped the tracks Wednesday. NBC reports,"Several ...
Pages in category "Railway accidents and incidents in West Virginia" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total. ... 2015 Mount Carbon train derailment
January 10 – United States – The New York Central Railroad's Southwest Limited from St. Louis to Cleveland, instead of slowing to pick up a train order at Wellington, Ohio, approached too fast in the fog and derailed. The signal tower was demolished, but the signalman was safely on the ground preparing to hand over the train order.
On March 13, 2019, mid-day winds of around 80 mph derailed the rear 26 cars of a double stack train on the Union Pacific high steel trestle over the Canadian River south of Logan, New Mexico. [ 33 ] One reason for choosing broad gauge (17% wider than standard gauge) for BART was the greater stability in high winds and perhaps earthquakes.
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]