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The 1990 Back Bay, Massachusetts train collision was a collision between an Amtrak passenger train, the Night Owl, and a Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) Stoughton Line commuter train just outside Back Bay station in Boston, Massachusetts, United States.
The train collided head-on with a Seaboard Coast Line freight train. RAR-80-8: July 9, 1980 Quaker City: Linden, New Jersey: Equipment collision 1 17 The train struck a rail protruding from a work train. RAR-80-12 November 7, 1980 Empire State Express: Dobbs Ferry, New York: Train collision 0 84 A Conrail freight train collided with the Amtrak ...
On September 22, 1993, an Amtrak Sunset Limited passenger train derailed on the CSX Transportation Big Bayou Canot Bridge near Mobile, Alabama, United States.It was caused by displacement of a span and deformation of the rails when a tow of heavy barges collided with the rail bridge eight minutes earlier.
The final Amtrak train, designated No. 353 and bound for Chicago, pulled out in January 1988. ... But 1990 represented perhaps the nadir of Detroit’s decades-long slide into vacancy and ...
December 12 – United States – Back Bay rail accident: Amtrak's Night Owl, the Northeast Corridor's overnight train, travelling at excessive speed around a curve inside a tunnel, derailed and rear-ended an MBTA commuter train in Back Bay station in Boston. 453 people were injured.
Amtrak, officially the National Railroad Passenger Corporation, is a quasi-public entity that operates passenger train services in the United States. Since its inception in 1971, it has had several route changes, contractions, and station replacements that resulted in the closure of older stations.
In the early 1990s, Amtrak tested several different high-speed trains from Europe on the Northeast Corridor. An X 2000 train was leased from Sweden for test runs from October 1992 to January 1993, followed by revenue service between Washington, D.C. and New York City from February to May and August to September 1993.
The Pioneer was an Amtrak long-distance passenger train that ran between Seattle and Chicago via Portland, Boise, Salt Lake City, and Denver.Operating from 1977 to 1997, the Pioneer was the last passenger rail route to serve Wyoming, Southern Idaho, or Eastern Oregon.