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The train derailed due to excessive speed on a curve. RAR-16-02: March 14, 2016: Southwest Chief: Cimarron, Kansas: Derailment 0 28 The train derailed due to track damage caused by an agricultural vehicle. RAB-17-11: April 3, 2016: Palmetto: Chester, Pennsylvania: Equipment collision 2 39 The train struck a backhoe being used for track work ...
Sketch of the accident site. The San Bernardino train disaster (sometimes known as the Duffy Street incident), was a combination of two separate but related incidents that occurred in San Bernardino, California, United States: a runaway train derailment on May 12, 1989; and the subsequent failure on May 25, 1989, of the Calnev Pipeline, a petroleum pipeline adjacent to the tracks which was ...
An Amtrak train carrying nearly 200 passengers struck a county water truck and derailed on Wednesday in Southern California, critically injuring the truck's driver, authorities said. Three of the ...
1945 California Limited derailment, Santa Anita, California; 5 killed plus hundreds injured [145] 1946 Naperville train disaster , Naperville, Illinois; 45 killed plus 125 injured. Eventually convinced the Interstate Commerce Commission to rule that trains traveling 80 mph or more must have "an automatic cab signal, automatic train stop or ...
At 2:53 a.m., [1] Amtrak's Sunset Limited train, powered by three locomotives (one GE Genesis P40DC number 819 in the front and two EMD F40PHs, numbers 262 and 312) en route from Los Angeles, California, to Miami, Florida, with 220 passengers and crew aboard, crossed the bridge at around 70 miles per hour (110 km/h) and derailed at the kink ...
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Amtrak's Coast Starlight was en route to Los Angeles from Seattle early Sunday evening when the mishap left the train immobilized
Chatsworth September 12 – United States – 2008 Chatsworth train collision: A northbound Metrolink (California) double-deck commuter train ran a red light and collided head-on with a Union Pacific Railroad freight train pulled by three engines at about 60 mph (97 km/h) and derailed; the derailed Metrolink engine was knocked 30 feet (9.1 m ...