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The 2005 Glendale train crash occurred on January 26, 2005, at 6:03 a.m. PST, when a Metrolink commuter train collided with a sport utility vehicle [2] that had been parked on the tracks by a suicidal man in an industrial area of Glendale, California, just east of the Los Angeles city limits, causing the deaths of 11 people and injuring 177 more.
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.
Union Pacific maintains a functioning police department staffed with officers given the title of Special Agent with jurisdiction over crimes against the railroad. Like most railroad police, its primary jurisdiction is unconventional, consisting of 54,116 miles (87,091 kilometers) of track in 23 western U.S. states.
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Security images of the suspects and their getaway car involved in the shooting of 'General Hospital' actor Johnny Wactor were released by L.A. police.
The train collided with a Union Pacific freight train. April 18, 2002 Auto Train: Crescent City, Florida: Derailment 4 142 The train derailed due to a heat-induced kink in the track. RAR-03-02: July 29, 2002 Capitol Limited: Kensington, Maryland: Derailment 0 95 The train derailed due to a track defect. RAB-04-05: April 1, 2003 Pacific Surfliner
Above, a Union Pacific train in Nebraska in 2018. (Nati Harnik / Associated Press) Two Union Pacific operators were killed early Thursday when their train crashed into parked freight cars near the ...
Prior to the early 1990s, the Northwest Highway ran as a two-lane road (one lane in each direction) parallel to the former Chicago & North Western rail line (Union Pacific Railroad after April 1995). The distance between the road and the railroad is relatively constant in the state—roughly 60 feet (18 m), assuming a two-lane road and ...