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Location Type of incident Deaths Injuries Description NTSB report or docket June 10, 1971: City of New Orleans: Salem, Illinois: Derailment 11 163 The train derailed due to a seized axle. RAR-72-5: March 18, 1973 Broadway Limited: East Palestine, Ohio: Derailment 1 19 [1] May 30, 1974 Floridian: Winamac, Indiana: Derailment 0 29 [2] August 12 ...
1999 Bourbonnais, Illinois, train crash – An accident in which an Amtrak train collided with a semi-trailer truck that was trying to beat the train across a grade crossing. 2015 Halifax train crash – An accident in which an Amtrak train struck a truck carrying an oversize load that was obstructing the line at a grade crossing.
Map of the train's position following the derailment Aerial view of the derailed train. At about 9:10 p.m. on Tuesday, May 12, 2015, Amtrak's northbound Northeast Regional No. 188 led by Amtrak ACS-64 601 departed Philadelphia's 30th Street Station en route to New York City from Washington D.C. [2] [10] [11] The train consisted of seven cars hauled by a year-old Amtrak Cities Sprinter (ACS)-64 ...
At 2:53 a.m., [1] Amtrak's Sunset Limited train, powered by three locomotives (one GE Genesis P40DC number 819 in the front and two EMD F40PHs, numbers 262 and 312) en route from Los Angeles, California, to Miami, Florida, with 220 passengers and crew aboard, crossed the bridge at around 70 miles per hour (110 km/h) and derailed at the kink ...
On December 18, 2017, Amtrak Cascades passenger train 501 derailed near DuPont, Washington, United States.The National Transportation Safety Board's (NTSB) final report said regional transit authority Sound Transit failed to take steps to mitigate a curve at the accident location, and inadequately trained the train engineer.
“If they’re not going to fix it, or raise the road, this crossing shouldn’t even exist. They should have just closed it,” said Bob Comer, who has investigated train crashes for more than ...
While operating through Bourbonnais, the Amtrak engineer observed a semi-trailer truck loaded with steel slowly crossing the tracks at a grade crossing. [1]: 3 When the engineer realized the truck was not going to clear the tracks in time, he initiated an emergency brake application. However, the train was traveling at 79 mph (127 km/h) and was ...
A couple is suing Amtrak and others after a woman sustained life-altering injuries in the June 27 train derailment that killed four people in rural Missouri, according to court documents.