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LONGVIEW, Texas — A semi truck that was crossing the railroad tracks on Private Road 2317 in Gregg County, Texas on Wednesday, Nov. 21, was hit by an oncoming Union Pacific train.

View from W Sabine St of a rail crossing on Private Road 2317 where a tractor trailer was involved in a Union Pacific train accident while crossing the tracks in Longview, TX on Nov. 21, 2012.

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MIDLAND, Texas — A Union Pacific train crashed into a parade float carrying wounded veterans and their families killing four servicemen two of whom saved their wives by pushing them to safety before they died.

Four veterans were killed in a horrific train accident in Midland, TX on November 16, 2012 when a float they were riding in was hit by a Union Pacific freight train while the float was crossing the tracks during a parade.

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MACON, Ga. — Authorities report that an autopsy will be conducted on a Norfolk Southern railroad worker who died in a fall from a parked train in Macon, Georgia on Mon. Nov 12.

A view of the tracks in Macon, GA where a 56 year old Norfolk Southern railroad worker died after falling from a locomotive on November 12, 2012. An autopsy is planned to determine if his death was from the result of the fall.

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CHICAGO, Ill. — Two railroad workers were injured when an Orange Line train derailed early Friday in the Chicago Transit Authority train yard near Midway Airport. The media reports that the train jumped the tracks just before as it was pulling into the rail yard.

Two railroad workers were injured in a CTA Orange Line train derailment in a Chicago, IL rail yard on November 9, 2012. Photo credit: WGN-TV

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WELLINGTON, Utah — Two men, who were in a semi truck when it was hit by an oncoming train, are lucky to have escaped with no reported injuries. James Wood, a construction worker on his lunch break, caught a video of the train smashing into the semi.

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LOUISVILLE, KY — Officials with the Louisville Metro Emergency Management Agency told the media that a fire broke out and injured five contractors working on a derailed train car containing a highly flammable chemical.

Five contractors were injured, one of them critically, in the cleanup of a train derailment where a hot torch ignited a fire and caused the evacuation of residents in the nearby community of West Point, KY due to the presence of dangerous chemicals.

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ST. CLOUD, MN. — The St. Cloud Police Department reported on Saturday, October 27, that a BNSF railroad worker was found on the ground next to railroad cars he was been working on.

Map showing location of a train accident in a St. Cloud, MN rail yard near the 1700 block of Breckenridge Ave where a railroad worker was injured by a passing train on Oct. 27, 2012.

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Mike Flanigon, chief investigator for the National Transportation Safety Board said at a news conference on Monday, Oct.22, that the final determination of the cause of Sunday’s crash in Niles, Michigan could take 6 months to a year.

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NILES, Mich. — On Sunday, Oct. 21, an Amtrak train traveling from Chicago to Pontiac, Michigan derailed about 2 miles east of Niles. Amtrak representatives said no life-threatening injuries were reported.

A rail from the train tracks is seen jutting out next to a passenger car in an Amtrak train derailment just northeast of Niles, MI on October 21, 2012.

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WILTON, N.H. — An accident occurred Wednesday morning, Oct 17, at 7:45 a.m. at the Mill Street/Burns Hill Road railroad crossing in the center of Wilton, along the Souhegan River when a single locomotive owned by the Milford-Bennington Railroad Co. struck a Sullivan Paving Co. truck.

A truck driver was taken to the hospital after his paving truck crashed into a train in Wilton, NH on October 17, 2012. Photo credit: Don Himsel / Telegraph

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