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The collision occurred at the intersection of Algonquin Road, U.S. Route 14, and a double-tracked mainline belonging to the Union Pacific Railroad. [4]: 1 At the time of the accident, the Metra train was traveling at approximately 60 miles per hour (97 km/h). [4]: 45
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.
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]
1999 Bourbonnais, Illinois, train crash; C. 1972 Chicago commuter rail crash; ... 1887 Great Chatsworth train wreck; Greater Grand Crossing rail collision; H. Harvey ...
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 train collided with a Union Pacific freight train. April 18, 2002 Auto Train: Crescent City, Florida: Derailment 4 142 The train derailed due to a heat-induced kink in the track. RAR-03-02: July 29, 2002 Capitol Limited: Kensington, Maryland: Derailment 0 95 The train derailed due to a track defect. RAB-04-05: April 1, 2003 Pacific Surfliner
Around 3 a.m., the train pulled off the main railroad and onto a siding, said Susan Stevens, a spokesperson for Union Pacific. As the train pulled onto the siding — an alternate railway ...
The 33-mile route runs from Joliet, Illinois to Chicago's Bridgeport neighborhood, largely paralleling the route of the Illinois and Michigan Canal. [1] Union Pacific has trackage rights over the route, which meets the Union Pacific Joliet Subdivision at Joliet to reach Bloomington and St. Louis.