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Pages in category "Railway accidents and incidents in California" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
1963 Chualar bus crash, Chualar, California; 32 killed plus 25 injured. Remains the deadliest U.S. traffic accident to date and California's deadliest to involve a train; also one of a series of events that led to closer scrutiny of migrant labor conditions and fueled the emergence of the chicano and farmworkers labor movements [179] [180]
The 2008 Chatsworth train collision occurred at 4:22:23 p.m. PDT (23:22:23 UTC) on September 12, 2008, when a Union Pacific Railroad freight train and a Metrolink commuter rail passenger train collided head-on in the Chatsworth neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, United States.
The collision threw the 11-year-old girl from the car.
A special "fast fruit" train of the Central Pacific Railroad prepares to head eastward on June 24, 1886. Even today, California is well known for the abundance and many varieties of fruit trees that are cultivated throughout the state. The only fruits indigenous to the region, however, consisted of wild berries or grew on small bushes.
The crash happened before 4:30 a.m. on the railroad tracks near the intersection of S.C. 16/Sunset Drive and Phillips Street, police said. That’s in downtown Columbia, near the Prisma Health ...
Police have arrested a man previously convicted of murder and rape who they say killed a woman in Washington state earlier this year.. Katie McQueen, a 37-year-old from Mariposa, California, was ...
A section of the 1915 Ridge Route in Lebec, California, abandoned when US 99 (later upgraded to I-5) was constructed over the Tejon Pass in order to make travel straighter and safer. Dead Man's Curve on old U.S. Route 66 in New Mexico Dead Man's Curve in Cleveland, Ohio