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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.
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 ...
The collision happened at around 2:35 a.m. in Cayce, about 4 miles southwest of Columbia. 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 four people killed in an Amtrak crash in rural Missouri on Monday were identified Wednesday by police. Rochelle Cook, 58; Kim Holsapple, 56, and Binh Phan, 82, were on the train when it ...
Three people were killed and others were injured when a passenger train traveling from Los Angeles to Chicago with about 275 passengers and 12 crew members struck a dump truck and derailed in a ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.