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The derailment happened on the Union Pacific Railroad. Clean-up is underway, according to a Facebook post from the city . The post said all crossings were open as of 9:30 p.m. Monday.
Third major train derailment in the Midwest in less than a month
The fatal incident happened around 5:05 p.m., killing one person, according to a Union Pacific spokesperson. Union Pacific train strikes and kills person in Topeka; investigation ongoing Skip to ...
May 19 of 2004 – Gunter Train Collision – Two BNSF freight trains collide head-on near Gunter, Texas.The train engineer of the southbound train died. [3]June 28, 2004 – A westbound Union Pacific Railroad freight train collides with the middle of an eastbound BNSF freight that was entering a siding at Macdona, Texas.
29 July – United States – In Tempe, Arizona, a Union Pacific train derailed on the Salt River Bridge over Tempe Town Lake, injuring one. [23] 31 July – Portugal – Soure train crash: An Alfa Pendular high-speed passenger train derailed after colliding with a catenary maintenance vehicle, killing two and injuring 43. [24]
1856 Great Train Wreck of 1856, Whitemarsh Township, Pennsylvania; 60+ killed plus 100+ injured. Encouraged busier railroads in the Eastern U.S. to double track lines; also led to mandatory use of telegraph in cases of delays [9] 1859 South Bend train wreck, Mishawaka/South Bend, Indiana; 42 killed plus 50 injured [10] [11]
Dispatching errors combined with the failure of two backup systems allowed a Union Pacific train to slam into 75 railcars that had been parked on a side track for nine months in Southern ...
The National Transportation Safety Board's final report detailed what caused the crash in the desert near the Salton Sea in September 2022. Investigators determined that mistakes made by dispatchers at the railroad's headquarters in Omaha led to the train being routed directly into the parked railcars.