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Coast Starlight: Gibson, California: Fire 2 61 A fire of unknown cause took place in a passenger car. RAR-83-03: April 3, 1983 Crescent: Rockfish, Virginia: Derailment 0 24 The train derailed due to debris from a landslide. RAR-83-10 July 28, 1983 State House: Wilmington, Illinois: Grade crossing 0 21 The train struck a delivery truck at the ...
The train was transporting non-odorous propane and gasoline, and a half-dozen rail cars caught fire and burned for hours after the derailment, New Mexico State Police Lt. Phil Vargas said.
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 ...
Apr. 27—Interstate 40 in both directions near the New Mexico-Arizona state line remained closed Saturday following a freight train derailment and fire that forced evacuations in the surrounding ...
According to Amtrak, there were 243 passengers and 12 crew members on board the Southwest Chief Train 4 when eight cars and two locomotives derailed near Mendon, Mo., about 100 miles northeast of ...
In a statement on Sunday, March 5, 2023, the company reported that 28 cars of the 212-car train derailed, after initially reporting that 20 had derailed. [203] The company also reported that the train's two-person crew was unharmed. [ 203 ]
The derailment occurred on the Hi-Line, a portion of the BNSF's Northern Transcon. [4] [5] BNSF conducted its most recent inspection of the section through Joplin on September 23, 2021. The last major Amtrak accident in Montana occurred in 1988, when an Empire Builder train hit a track buckle and derailed in Saco. [6]
A 911 call center on Monday took some responsibility for an Amtrak train derailment last week in southwestern Michigan, saying it misidentified a crossing and contacted a different railroad to ...