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On June 27, 2022, the Southwest Chief, a passenger train operated by Amtrak, derailed near the small town of Mendon, Missouri. The derailment was caused by the train striking a dump truck that was obstructing the crossing of County Road 113, about three miles (4.8 km) southwest of Mendon. Four people were killed in the wreck: three passengers ...
The Southwest Chief (formerly the Southwest Limited and Super Chief) is a long-distance passenger train operated by Amtrak on a 2,265-mile (3,645 km) route between Chicago and Los Angeles through the Midwest and Southwest via Kansas City, Albuquerque, and Flagstaff mostly on the BNSF's Southern Transcon, but branches off between Albuquerque and Kansas City via the Topeka, La Junta, Raton, and ...
Amtrak revived the Chief for three months in the summer of 1972 as a second daily Chicago–Los Angeles train (numbers 19 & 20). It complemented the combined Super Chief/El Capitan (numbers 3 & 4), running over the same route. Today, the Southwest Chief remains the only train serving the former route of the Chief.
Sep. 14—New Mexico's longest Amtrak route, the Southwest Chief, will not run for the foreseeable future as the railroad company grapples with a labor dispute, an Amtrak spokesperson confirmed ...
According to Amtrak, there were 243 passengers and 12 crew members on board the Southwest Chief Train 4 when eight cars and two locomotives derailed near Mendon, Mo., about 100 miles northeast of ...
Several riders who had tickets for Amtrak's Southwest Chief waited in Galesburg's Amtrak station Monday after the train derailed in Mendon, Missouri.
The Cimarron train derailment occurred on March 14, 2016, when Amtrak's Southwest Chief derailed about 20 miles (32 km) west of Dodge City in Kansas, United States. Twenty-eight people were injured, including two critically.
Southwest Chief: Kingman, Arizona: Derailment 0 183 The train derailed due to a damaged bridge. RAR-98-03: December 20, 1998 Texas Eagle: Arlington, Texas: Derailment 0 22 The train derailed due to a track defect. RAR-01-02: March 15, 1999: City of New Orleans: Bourbonnais, Illinois: Grade crossing 11 122 The train struck a tractor-trailer at a ...