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LONG ISLAND, N.Y. — Officials reported that a Long Island railroad worker (LIRR) was fatally electrocuted Monday morning, August 27, after touching the third rail on tracks near the Queens Village train station.

LIRR worker killed after being electrocuted on August 27, 2012. Photo Credit: DNAInfo.com

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FORT WAYNE, IN. — A Norfolk Southern train traveling from Chicago to Harrisburg, Pa.,  derailed when two locomotives hauling 43 cars, slipped off the tracks in Fort Wayne, IN.

Thirty seven Norfolk Southern rail cars derailed in Fort Wayne, IN on September 8, 2012 causing traffic to come to a standstill for several hours.

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ST. PAUL, Minn. — A Union Pacific freight train traveling from Chicago to St. Paul on Saturday August 25, derailed on railroad tracks owned by Burlington Northern Santa Fe.

A Union Pacific train derailed in St. Paul, MN under the 7th St bridge just north of I-94 on August 25, 2012. Photo credit: KSTP.com.

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FORT WORTH, TX. — Union Pacific railroad workers are being exposed to blazing temperatures at Union Pacific’s massive Davidson Yard located in Fort Worth, Texas being forced to deal with record summer temperatures in a rail yard that has been labeled the Fort Worth Death Valley.

Railroad workers in the Union Pacific Davidson Rail Yard in Fort Worth, TX experience blazing heat.

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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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TULSA, Okla. — The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has speculated that human error may be the cause of the June 24 fiery head-on collision of two Union Pacific trains that occurred just east of Goodwell, Oklahoma.

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GOODWELL, Okla. — Two engineers and a conductor are missing after two Union Pacific freight trains collided on Sunday, June 24 in the Oklahoma Panhandle. Oklahoma Highway Patrol trooper, Betsy Randolph, said that law officials were searching areas near the track hoping that the missing workers may have jumped off the train.

Three Union Pacific railroad workers went missing after a fiery head-on train crash just outside Goodwell, OK on June 24, 2012.

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LOS ANGELES, Calif. — A Union Pacific train conductor was injured Saturday morning, June 16, when the 53-car train struck some parked rail cars near the Lamar Street crossing, causing three freight cars to derail.

A railroad worker was injured in a train derailment in a Los Angeles rail yard on June 16, 2012.

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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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UPPER MERION, Pa. — A railroad worker, employed by the Brandywine Valley Railroad Co., was killed on Saturday, May 19, when an 1,800-pound roll of newsprint fell from a boxcar at the Philadelphia Inquirer and Daily News Schuylkill Printing Plant, crushing the victim to death.

A railroad worker was killed on May 19, 2012 after being crushed by huge roll of paper at the Daily News Printing Plant in Upper Merion, PA.

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