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A Conrail freight train collided with the Amtrak train. RAR-81-04: March 29, 1982 Benjamin Franklin: Bristol, Pennsylvania: Train collision 0 32 A locomotive sent to rescue the disabled train collided with it. RAR-82-05: June 15, 1982 San Francisco Zephyr: Emerson, Iowa: Derailment 1 27 The train derailed due to flooding of the tracks. RAR-83 ...
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.
The crash happened Thursday evening near New Buffalo in Michigan's southwestern corner, about 70 miles (110 kilometers) east of Chicago. Chicago-bound Amtrak train derails after hitting empty ...
1955 Spring City School bus-train collision, Spring City, Tennessee; 11 killed plus many injured [161] [162] 1956 Redondo Junction train wreck , Los Angeles, California; 30 killed plus 117 injured. California's deadliest rail disaster (not involving an automobile) was one of the first to have its aftermath broadcast live [ 163 ] [ 164 ] [ 165 ]
An Amtrak train and semi-truck collided in Indiantown on Aug. 22, 2024. There were no reported injuries, according to the Martin County Sheriff's Office.
March 15 – United States – 1999 Bourbonnais, Illinois, train crash: The Amtrak City of New Orleans, traveling at approximately 80 miles per hour (130 km/h), slammed into a semi-trailer truck loaded with steel concrete reinforcing bar (rebar) at a grade crossing and derails. An ensuing fire set one Superliner sleeper car ablaze.
According to two news releases, police were notified of the accident at about 1:18 p.m., resulting in an investigation and rescue effort that also included the Western Lakes Fire District and ...
Amtrak restored the Empire Service brand with the June 11, 1972, timetable, and added individual train names on the May 19, 1974, timetable. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] As was done on the Northeast Corridor with NortheastDirect , individual train names for New York-Albany and New York-Niagara Falls service were dropped on October 28, 1995, and replaced with ...