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March 24 – United States – Gilchrest Road, New York crossing accident: a school bus was struck by a freight train at a level crossing in Rockland County, New York, near the New York City suburbs of Congers and Valley Cottage, killing five students. The bus driver was convicted of negligent homicide and sentenced to probation; the accident ...
The train engineer saw the bus cross the tracks and immediately applied the brakes. However, the train's momentum carried it through the crossing, where it collided with the bus. The freight train ripped through the school bus, severing it into two sections, with the front half coming to rest a quarter mile (1,116 ft) down the tracks.
January 14 – Ghana – An express train derailed between Accra and Kumasi, killing at least 21 people and injuring about 200. [10]January 19 – France – An RER A express train in Paris at Auber station crashed, killing one person and injuring 73 in a rear-end collision caused by the train driver misunderstanding a new signaling system installed only two days earlier.
The Pennsylvanian is a 444-mile (715 km) daily daytime Amtrak train running between New York City and Pittsburgh via Philadelphia. The trains travel across the Appalachian Mountains, through Pennsylvania's capital Harrisburg, the Pennsylvania Dutch Country, suburban and central Philadelphia, and New Jersey en route to New York. The entire train ...
Pittsburgh – New York City October 30, 1983 November 6, 1998 Chicago – New York City November 7, 1998 January 26, 2003 Pittsburgh – New York City January 27, 2003 October 31, 2004 Merged with Three Rivers: March 8, 2005 present Replaced Three Rivers: Potomac Special: Washington, D.C. – Parkersburg: May 14, 1972 ()
New York Day Express 1906 — 1927 Pittsburgh, PA — New York, NY renamed The Juniata; New York Express 1899 — 1914 Cape Charles, VA — New York, NY; New York Express 1904 — 1919 St. Louis, MO / Chicago, IL — Ft. Wayne, IN — New York, NY renamed New York Night Express; New York Express 1919 — 1928 Pittsburgh, PA — New York, NY
Himachal Road Transport Corporation, also referred to as HRTC, is the state-owned road transport corporation of the state of Himachal Pradesh, India. [4] [5] HRTC provides bus services to towns and cities within Himachal Pradesh and the adjoining and nearby states of Uttarakhand, Punjab, Haryana, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir and Rajasthan.
The Keystone Service is a 195 mile (314 km) regional passenger train service from Amtrak, that operates between the Harrisburg Transportation Center in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and 30th Street Station in Philadelphia, running along the Philadelphia to Harrisburg Main Line (known as the Keystone Corridor).