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Archive for October, 2010

EVANS, CO – On Monday, October 4, 2010 a Union Pacific train that was pulling 125 grain cars derailed in Evans, Colorado. The derailment site was about 4 miles west of the towns of La Salle and Evans.

Site of Union Pacific train derailment in Evans, CO on Monday, October 3, 2010. Photo credit: Mike Peters/Greeley Tribune

Evans is in Weld County, Colorado in the northern part of the state about 2.3 miles northeast of La Salle about 4.7 miles southeast of Greeley and about 13.5 miles northeast of Milliken. ... Read More

PLAINS TOWNSHIP, PA – A Wilkes-Barre man was injured when the ATV he was riding crashed into a Canadian Pacific Railway train in Plains Township, PA on Saturday, October 2, 2010.

Injured ATV rider wheeled into waiting ambulance following crash with train near Wilkes-Barre, PA. Photo credit: Sherry Long/The Times Leader

Plains Township is in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania in the eastern part of the state, about 9 miles east of Wilkes-Barre. ... Read More

BRIMSON, MN – Five railroad workers were injured in a head-on collision between two Canadian National ore trains in Brimson, Minnesota, an unincorporated community in Ault Township.

Two Canadian National ore trains collide head-on injuring 5 railroad employees in Brimson, MN.

The train crash occurred in a section of tracks about 15 miles north of Two Harbors, MN on Thursday evening, September 28, 2010 at about 4:00 p.m. off Lake County Road 14 near Highland Lake. ... Read More