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1999 Bourbonnais, Illinois, train crash; C. 1972 Chicago commuter rail crash; ... 1887 Great Chatsworth train wreck; Greater Grand Crossing rail collision; H. Harvey ...
1906 Atlantic City train wreck, Atlantic City, New Jersey; 53 killed. Resulted in what is likely the first known press release by a private entity [67] 1906 Woodville Train Wreck, Porter County, Indiana; at least 48 confirmed killed plus many missing and at least 81 confirmed injured [68] 1906 Washington, D.C., train wreck; 53 killed plus 70 ...
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.
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 City of Los Angeles was a streamlined passenger train between Chicago, Illinois, and Los Angeles, California via Omaha, Nebraska, and Ogden, Utah. Between Omaha and Los Angeles it ran on the Union Pacific Railroad; east of Omaha it ran on the Chicago and North Western Railway until October 1955 and on the Milwaukee Road thereafter. The ...
July 2 – United States – 1922 Winslow Junction train derailment: On the Philadelphia and Reading Railway's Atlantic City Railroad, at shortly before 11:30pm, Train 33 with Philadelphia and Reading Railway Engine No. 349 speeds through an open switch at approximately 90 mph (140 km/h) and derails, killing seven and injuring 89.
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.
In 2019, a Union Pacific freight train derailed at the Dupo Yard, leading to the evacuation of several neighborhoods in Dupo. [18] The crash was caused by a 1.5 miles (2.4 km)-long freight train breaking in half and the two halves then colliding. [19] A tank car full of methyl isobutyl ketone caught fire. [18]