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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. Four people were killed in the wreck: three passengers ...
The train derailed due to track failure, caused by oscillation of the train from poor track quality. December 15, 1976. Lone Star. Marland, Oklahoma. Grade crossing. 3. 11. The train struck a tanker truck at a grade crossing. December 16, 1976.
On September 22, 1993, an Amtrak Sunset Limited passenger train derailed on the CSX Transportation Big Bayou Canot Bridge near Mobile, Alabama, United States.It was caused by displacement of a span and deformation of the rails when a tow of heavy barges collided with the rail bridge eight minutes earlier.
Joseph Wilkinson. June 29, 2022 at 10:28 PM. 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 ...
Amtrak officials said 275 passengers and 12 crew members were on the train headed from Los Angeles to Chicago when several cars derailed after the train struck a dump truck at a crossing.
Three people were killed, including a six-year-old boy, after an Amtrak train hit a pickup on the tracks in North Tonawanda. The crash occurred just before 8 p.m. on Friday at Felton Street and ...
On May 12, 2015, an Amtrak Northeast Regional train from Washington, D.C. bound for New York City derailed and wrecked on the Northeast Corridor near the Kensington neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Of the 238 passengers and 5 crew on board, 8 were killed and over 200 were injured, with 11 critically so.
Crash. 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 Silver Star was hauled by GE P42DC ...