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Following the incident, service on the Yellow Line was fully closed and replaced with bus service, initially announced to be for a period of five days. [7] Following the release of the NTSB's preliminary report, the CTA announced that it would reduce the speed limit on the Yellow Line from 55 mph (89 km/h) to 35 mph (56 km/h), and to 25 mph (40 km/h) in the area where the crash occurred. [15]
The accident killed the engineer and injured 51 passengers and nine crew members. It was the last major wreck of a steam-powered revenue passenger train in the United States. The train had been pulled by N&W No. 611, a class J 4-8-4 steam locomotive , which received extensive repairs after the accident and was returned to revenue service.
Norfolk County District Attorney Michael W. Morrissey held a press conference at Dover Police Headquarters, Dec. 29, 2023. A married couple and their 18-year-old daughter were all found dead ...
On June 27, 2022, the Southwest Chief, a passenger train operated by Amtrak, derailed near the small town of Mendon, Missouri.The derailment was caused by the train striking a dump truck that was obstructing the crossing of County Road 113, about three miles (4.8 km) southwest of Mendon.
A review of safety data by NBC News showed that from 2018 to 2022, Norfolk Southern averaged 0.88 accidents per million miles, which is slightly above the average of the country’s six other ...
A Norfolk jury convicted a man in a 32-year-old rape case on Wednesday. ... The incident occurred before state forensic scientists could use DNA evidence, and before the existence of the FBI’s ...
1968 Chicago riots - One of the over 100 riots that erupted nationwide after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. Most of the Chicago rioting occurred on the West Side and was the second deadliest (11 fatalities, versus 13 in the Washington D.C. riots) of the riots in the nation after King's death. 11 500 August 23–28, 1968 Political
The university said in a statement Sunday that it was investigating claims that one or more of its fans had used a slur directed at a Norfolk State player during Norfolk State’s 64-58 win over ...