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5.0 seconds before impact: The engineer, realizing the bus has not moved from the track, activates the emergency brakes. The train is 500 ft (152 m) from the crossing, and its speed has decreased to 60 mph (97 km/h). 7:10 am: Train impacts school bus. 7:13 am: First 911 calls are reported to the Cary Police Department. The Fox River Grove ...
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.
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
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 majority of the 1,381 train-related deaths from 2019 to June 2022 involved people trespassing onto railroad tracks. In that same span, 13 railway employees have died in train accidents.
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 .
A Union Pacific train that derailed following a collision in Pecos, Texas, on Wednesday left two people dead and three others injured.. Pecos City Manager Charles Lino said the incident began when ...
The National Transportation Safety Board's final report detailed what caused the crash in the desert near the Salton Sea in September 2022. Investigators determined that mistakes made by dispatchers at the railroad's headquarters in Omaha led to the train being routed directly into the parked railcars.