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GREENWICH TOWNSHIP, NJ – An empty tanker car derailed in Greenwich Township raising concerns of hazardous chemicals for local residents. Greenwich Township is in Gloucester County in the southern part of the state about 50 miles southwest of Trenton.

Photo shows an empty tanker car that derailed in Greenwich Township, NJ on September 16, 2013. Photo credit: Tim Hawk/South Jersey Times.

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PAULSBORO, N.J. — An 84-car Conrail freight train carrying hazardous chemicals derailed Friday morning, Nov 30, after an old-style swing rail bridge collapsed sending the railcars into Mantua Creek below and releasing toxic chemicals into the air.

A Conrail train derailed and caused a hazardous chemical spill following a bridge collapse over the Mantua Creek in Paulsboro, NJ on November 30, 2012.

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KEARNY, N.J. — According to officials, a New Jersey transit worker from Bayonne was killed on Wednesday, August 22, when he was struck by track equipment at the Meadows Maintenance Complex in Kearny.

The Meadows Maintenance Complex in Kearny, NJ where a New Jersey Transit worker was killed by falling track equipment on August 22, 2012. Photo credit: Star-Ledger

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HOBOKEN, NJ – A PATH commuter train (Port Authority Trans-Hudson) pulled into the Hoboken, NJ terminal and crashed into the terminal platform injuring dozens of passengers and derailing in the process.

Emergency personnel near the entrance to the PATH station in Hoboken, NJ where commuter train crashed into terminal abutment on May 8, 2011. Photo credit: Julia Xanthos/News

Hoboken is located in Hudson County New Jersey in the northeastern part of the state about 9 1/2 miles northeast of Newark. ... Read More

KEARNY, NJ — A New Jersey Transit worker died after he was struck by a wayward locomotive in a railroad maintenance yard in Kearny, New Jersey early Monday morning, June 1, 2010 around 3:30 a.m. The railroad worker who was killed was identified as 63-year-old NJ Transit worker, Greg Kastner.

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Kastner’s job was to help shuttle engines in the Meadows Maintenance Facility which is located in Kearny, New Jersey, about 5 miles just outside New York City. The Meadows Maintenance Facility yard is located  off the Newark Turnpike (NJ 7), adjacent to the Conrail South Kearny yard. ... Read More