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Illinois's deadliest rail disaster to date widely encouraged the use of newer steel coaches over conventional wooden ones [29] 1887 Chicago and Atlantic Railway Wreck, Kouts, Indiana; 10 killed [30] 1888 Wreck at the Fat Nancy, Orange County, Virginia; nine killed plus 26 injured.
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 ...
2006. June 14, 2006 – The Kismet Train Collision - Two BNSF Railway freight trains collide head-on in Madera, California, due to one of the trains running a red signal, injuring 5 people. One of the train's crew members, the one that ran the red, is suspected to be high on cocaine. There was a camera on board one of the locomotives involved ...
May 2 – India – A car carrying munitions exploded at a Central Railway marshalling yard at Bhusaval station, killing seven people and injuring 31. [105] May 31 – Romania – Soon after starting from Bucharest, an express to Galați collided with a local train; 38 people were killed and 65 were injured.
Railroad cars; Railway couplings. Couplers by country; Coupler conversion; Dual coupling; Wheelset; Bogie (truck) Passenger train; Commuter rail; Regional rail; Inter-city rail; High-speed railways; Passenger traffic terminology; Named passenger trains; Rail subsidies; Railway nationalization; Freight
July 9 – Poland – Rzepin train disaster: A fast Pt47 steam locomotive allegedly derailed in Rzepin. 160 people died. Harrow and Wealdstone rail crash. October 8 – United Kingdom – Harrow and Wealdstone rail crash: Three trains are involved in a crash that kills 112 people and injures 340.
Big Bayou Canot rail accident. 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 Wreck of the Old 97 was an American rail disaster involving the Southern Railway mail train, officially known as the Fast Mail (train number 97), while en route from Monroe, Virginia, to Spencer, North Carolina, on September 27, 1903. Travelling at an excessive speed in an attempt to maintain schedule, the train derailed at the Stillhouse ...