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April 27 – United States – Union Pacific Big Boy 4005 jumps at a switch track at 50 mph (80 km/h) and derails in southern Wyoming. June 24 – French Indochina – Col des Nuages derailment: "About 100 or more" people are killed when a passenger train plunges 15 m (50 feet) through a sabotaged viaduct.
1991 Union Square derailment, New York City; 5 killed plus 161 injured [228] [229] [230] 1992 Nemadji River bridge derailment, Superior, Wisconsin; no direct human deaths but many animals—wild and domestic—confirmed killed by chemical leak; 50,000 to 80,000 people evacuated from Superior and from Duluth, Minnesota [231] [232] [233] [234]
Medicine Bow, Wyoming: 16 August 1878 Big Nose George, Frank McKinney, Joe Manuse, Jack Campbell, John Wells, Tom Reed, Frank Tole, and Dutch “Charley” Burress. The group of 7 men planned to rob a Union Pacific train by derailing the train but were stopped by the trains crew and gang received a $10,000 bounty. [14] Winston, Montana: 21 July ...
Two Union Pacific employees are dead and three people are injured after a train hit a tractor-trailer stopped on the railroad tracks in Pecos, Texas, causing it to derail.
The derailment also disrupted Amtrak passenger rail service between Minot, North Dakota, and Havre, Montana. No injuries were reported. [30] January 22, 2014 – A BNSF train transporting 18 empty intermodal rail cars derails inside the Lindenwood Yard in St. Louis, Missouri. No injuries were reported and the derailment was cleared the same day ...
April 19 – India – Sabotaged track derailed a passenger train at Siliguri, killing 23 people and injuring 77, 28 seriously. [15] May 22 – United States – Arlington, Oregon: A Union Pacific freight train derailed, killing two people, sending twenty rail cars off the track, and catching on fire. [25]
August 21 – United States – near Sweetwater County, Wyoming: The Mail Express Number 6 was eastbound at the time of the accident and had passed through Rock Springs at 2:07 a.m. The train was due to arrive in Rawlins at 2:55 a.m. but had derailed about 2:20 a.m. The train derailment occurred about a mile (1600 m) west of the Thayer junction.
The Union Pacific Railroad (reporting marks UP, UPP, UPY) is a Class I freight-hauling railroad that operates 8,300 locomotives over 32,200 miles (51,800 km) routes in 23 U.S. states west of Chicago and New Orleans.