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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 ...
Pages in category "Accidents and incidents involving Union Pacific Railroad" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
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 ...
Metra train 624, nicknamed “The Flyer” consisted of Metra Nippon Sharyo bilevel cab car 8751, six Nippon Sharyo bilevel passenger railcars and Metra F40PH locomotive number 148, owned by Metra and operated by Union Pacific. The train was in push mode, with the engineer operating the locomotive from the cab car at the front of the train, and ...
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.
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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 ...