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A Conrail freight train collided with the Amtrak train. RAR-81-04: March 29, 1982 Benjamin Franklin: Bristol, Pennsylvania: Train collision 0 32 A locomotive sent to rescue the disabled train collided with it. RAR-82-05: June 15, 1982 San Francisco Zephyr: Emerson, Iowa: Derailment 1 27 The train derailed due to flooding of the tracks. RAR-83 ...
Summary and photos at Trainweb.org. Retrieved 3 June 2014; Graphical re-enactment of accident cause at TMBA Inc Animation Studio, New York. Retrieved 3 June 2014; U.S. Coast Guard: The short film Aerial and Boat Views of Amtrak Train Derailment, Mobile, Alabama (1993) is available for free viewing and download at the Internet Archive
An investigation by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) found that the Amtrak train entered a speed-restricted curve at excessive speed, causing the train to derail and crash into the MBTA commuter train on an adjacent track. Although no one was killed in the accident, 453 people were injured and Back Bay station was closed for six ...
On January 4, 1987, two trains collided on Amtrak's Northeast Corridor main line near Chase, Maryland, United States, at Gunpow Interlocking.Amtrak train 94, the Colonial, (now part of the Northeast Regional) traveling north from Washington, D.C., to Boston, crashed at over 100 miles per hour (160 km/h) into a set of Conrail locomotives running light (without freight cars) which had fouled the ...
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The Amtrak train was a Shawnee, composed of a GE P30CH and five Superliner passenger cars (the train seen in this photo is equipped with Amfleet cars). At 8:45 PM local time, ICG train number 51 stopped 20 feet (6.1 meters) before the crossover on track 3, due to a train ahead dealing with a crew change.
They should have just closed it,” said Bob Comer, who has investigated train crashes for more than three decades. ‘This crossing shouldn’t even exist.’ Expert says Amtrak crash site was ...
An Amtrak Silver Star passenger train with 139 passengers and 8 crew on board was traveling south from New York to Miami when it collided with CSX train Q210-03 (Cayce, SC-Smyrna, TN), an empty Autorack train. The Silver Star was hauled by GE P42DC locomotive No. 47, while Q210-03 was headed by two GE AC4400CWs, Nos. 130 and 36. [3]