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An investigator with BNSF Railway said in court documents that the teenager alerted authorities to the derailment and asked the investigator who arrived what caused the crash.
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) opened an investigation into the accident [11] and dispatched a 20-member Go Team to the crash site. [55] The NTSB said its investigators would be on-site for seven to ten days. [17] One aspect of the investigation was whether the engineer lost situational awareness. [56]
The train that derailed was Norfolk Southern 32N, [12] operating from the Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis yard in Madison, Illinois, to Norfolk Southern's Conway Yard in Conway, Pennsylvania, on the Fort Wayne Line. Aboard the 9,300-foot-long (1.76 mi; 2.8 km) train [13] were an engineer, conductor, and conductor trainee. [14]
An official investigation was initiated on March 8, 1966, the day after the wreck [14] which was led by superintendent Eugene Coan of Great Falls. [13] Paul F. Cruikshank, a spokesman for the railway company in Spokane, Washington asserted the same day of the accident that the westbound train driven by Runyan "went through red signals".
Gary Allen Montelongo used coding and engineering to test how suspension systems can cause train derailments. His eighth-grade project won big. A 14-year-old took home $10,000 for his award ...
Authorities are on the scene of a train derailment in southeastern Michigan, news outlets report.. The train, operated by Norfolk Southern Railway, came off the tracks near Van Buren Township the ...
The derailment was the first accident involving passenger fatalities in Metro-North's 30-year history, [43] and its first accident in New York involving any fatalities since a 1988 collision in Mount Vernon that killed one crew member. [44] It was the deadliest train accident within New York City since a 1991 subway derailment in Manhattan. [45]
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