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SANGER, TX — DentonRC.com reports that the last two cars of a BNSF freight train derailed on Thursday afternoon, Dec. 13, near Krum Jackson Cemetery in Texas.

At least two cars of a southbound BNSF train derailed in Sanger, TX on December 13, 2012 where a single track splits off into two lines. Part of the train went on one line and the last two cars went on the other. Photo credit: David Minton/DRC

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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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MITCHELL, S.D. — Two BNSF locomotives that were traveling east and hauling an empty 85-car freight train derailed at about 12:15 a.m. Wednesday, Sept 19, just west of the Burr Street railroad bridge in Mitchell, South Dakota.

A BNSF repair crew in Mitchell, SD straightens out a bent rail after a train derailment on September 20, 2012 near the Burr St railroad bridge. Photo credit: Daily Republic

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ASH FORK, Ariz. — A railroad worker employed by Burlington Burlington Northern Santa Fe (BNSF) was killed on Friday, July 27, after he drove a high-rail truck into a parked freight train in northern, Arizona.

A BNSF railroad worker was killed on July 27, 2012 when a maintenance truck he drove crashed into a parked freight train. The truck was fitted with an attachment for running on rail tracks.

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BARTON COUNTY, Mo. — Two railroad workers were taken to a local hospital from injuries sustained after Kansas City Southern and BNSF trains collided in Barton County, Missouri.

Two railroad workers were injured in a collision between a BNSF train and a Kansas City Southern train in Barton County, MO on July 21, 2012. Wreckage and debris were heaped in a pileup of locomotives and rail cars.

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EVERETT, Wash. – Emergency responders and clean-up crews responded to a BNSF train and tanker truck collision near Paine Field at Everett, Washington on Monday, June 11, where a tanker truck trailer was knocked on its side, spilling fuel.

Aerial view of railway crossing on Boeing property in Everett, WA that was the site of a collision between a tanker truck and a BNSF train on June 11, 2012.

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ST. PAUL, Minn. — BNSF agreed to pay a $29M settlement to the families of four young people who tragically died in a train crash in Anoka on the night of Sept. 26, 2003. One of the victims, 23-year old Brian Frazier of Newport, was driving the car when a Burlington Northern Santa Fe train hit the car at a rail crossing. Frazier and three others were killed.

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KNOXVILLE, TN – BNSF employees from the Maintenance-of-Way Division are working on replacing ties mainly in Marion County, Tennessee.

BNSF railroad workers gather in Knoxville, TN on Tuesday, March 27, 2012 to replace railroad ties. Photo credit: KNIA/KRLS News

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GRAND FORKS, ND – A body was discovered Saturday morning, March 23 by a BNSF railroad conductor near the train tracks located west of the Columbia Road overpass in Grand Forks, North Dakota.

Location where body was found by BNSF conductor on March 23, 2012. PHOTO: WDAZ-TV

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SPRINGFIELD, MO – On February 10, 2012 in a Springfield, MO rail yard, a railroad worker found the severed arm of a man who was killed in January in a train accident in Montana after stepping in front of a moving train.

On February 10, 2012 in a Springfield, MO rail yard a BNSF railroad worker found the severed arm of a man who was killed in a train accident in Libby, Montana the previous January after stepping in front of a moving train while committing suicide.

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