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A police spokesperson said the train sounded its horn before the three victims were hit around 5 p.m. local time on Tuesday, Jan. 7 3 Men Found Dead on Train Tracks 6 Hours After They Were Hit ...
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[7] [8] A northbound freight train, Q636-15, was directed onto a siding where the crew uncoupled its locomotive, CSX #8392 (another EMD SD40-2), and waited for the runaway train to pass. #8392 had a crew of two: Jesse Knowlton, an engineer with 31 years of service; and Terry L. Forson, a conductor with about one year's experience. [9]
He also hit the emergency brakes but his train, which had been traveling at 33 mph, did not stop for seven seconds. By then, its front end was about 1.5 railcar lengths past the contractors.
November 15 – United States – Canadian National train E243 running from Flat Rock, Michigan to Flint, Michigan collided with another CN train, L533 (bound for Detroit), at the Andersonville Siding on CN's Holly Subdivision in Michigan. The engineer and conductor on E243 were killed. [citation needed]
A serial killer used America’s vast train network as his personal hunting ground in the 1990s. ... Illinois, where he killed 80-year-old George Morber Sr and his daughter, 52-year-old Carolyn ...
January 14 – Ghana – An express train derailed between Accra and Kumasi, killing at least 21 people and injuring about 200. [10]January 19 – France – An RER A express train in Paris at Auber station crashed, killing one person and injuring 73 in a rear-end collision caused by the train driver misunderstanding a new signaling system installed only two days earlier.