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Archive for the ‘Train Derailments’ Category

GORE, W.Va. — A railroad worker was struck in the head on Sunday, Feb. 10, by a crane at the site of a CSX train derailment that occurred on Saturday in Gore, West Virginia, where a CSX locomotive and about five freight cars carrying coal derailed because of a rock slide.

Photo shows site of CSX train derailment on Feb. 9, 2013 in Gore West Virginia.

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BELL TOWNSHIP, PA. — A Norfolk Southern freight train partially derailed after colliding with a tractor trailer on Tuesday Feb 5, in Bell Township Pennsylvania.

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BLADENBORO, N.C.– A CSX train traveling from Hamlet to Wilmington on Saturday, Feb. 2, derailed causing one car containing anhydrous ammonia to tip over forcing more than 10 percent of Bladenboro’s population, or about 200 residents, to be evacuated from their homes. No injuries were reported at the time of the accident.

Photo shows CSX train derailment Feb. 2, 2013 in Bladenboro, North Carolina

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ROCKVIEW, MO — A Union Pacific train traveling from Chicago to Mexico with three locomotives and 112 cars derailed on Tuesday evening, January, 29, near Rockview Missouri in Scott County.

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INDIANAPOLIS — WishTV.com reported that a CSX train has derailed early Wednesday morning, Jan. 23, on the west side of Indianapolis.

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IMPERIAL, MO. — A BNSF train bound for Memphis derailed on Friday, Jan. 11, in Imperial, Missouri prompting authorities to evacuate nineteen homes on Churchill Court as a precaution due to residual chemicals inside two rail cars. Residents were allowed to return to their homes that evening.

Nine rail cars of a 92 car BNSF train derailed in Imperial, MO along a section of track running between cemetery plots on one side and residential homes on the other.

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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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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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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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LE MARS, Iowa. — A Union Pacific train traveling from Texas to Valley Park, Minnesota derailed near Le Mars, Iowa, on Monday, October 9, 2012, sending 24 cars off the tracks.

A Union Pacific train derailed near Le Mars, IA on October 8, 2012. The derailment involved a locomotive and 23 empty rail cars.

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