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1833 Hightstown rail accident, Hightstown, New Jersey; two killed plus 15 injured. Earliest recorded train accident involving the death of passengers. [1] [2] 1837 Suffolk head-on collision, Suffolk, Virginia; 3 killed plus dozens injured. Later in the year, a second accident resulted in ten injuries, with two of them ultimately dying. [3]
April 12 – United States – A head-end collision of a work train and a through freight train occurred near Pineville, Kentucky killing two. [9] [10]May 26 - United States - “Electric cars racing for a switch while running in opposite directions, at the rate of 40 miles per hour (64 km/h), cost five lives in the afternoon by a terrific collision, in which over forty prominent people were ...
April 21, 2024 – A BNSF train collided with an empty coal car, dealing two locomotives and five freight cars, in Bennet, Nebraska. At first framed as an accident, it was later found that a 17-year-old railfan intentionally "flipped a switch the wrong way” to cause the derailment, his motive being YouTube fame.
A train accident or train wreck is a type of disaster involving two or more trains. Train wrecks often occur as a result of miscommunication , as when a moving train meets another train on the same track, when the wheels of train come off the track or when a boiler explosion occurs.
The Empire Builder is a long-distance passenger train operated at the time of the accident by Great Northern Railway. It travels from Seattle and Portland to Chicago. [5] The Western Star was a passenger and mail train that was also operated by Great Northern Railway between Chicago and the Pacific Northwest.
The train derailed due to excessive speed on a curve and collided with an MBTA Commuter Rail train at Back Bay station. RAR-92-01: July 31, 1991 Silver Star: Lugoff, South Carolina: Derailment 8 77 The train derailed due to a set of switch points moving under the train. RAR-93-02: April 29, 1992 Colonial: Newport News, Virginia: Grade crossing 1 54
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An engraving of the accident was created in 1840 for the book Steamboat Disasters and Railroad Accidents.The official casualty list (as listed in the book) was that four had died (one as a result of getting run over by the rescue train), thirteen were severely wounded, and that thirty or more had been slightly injured.