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Archive for June, 2012

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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CISCO, TX. — The media reported that 24 railcars from a Union Pacific train derailed from a rail bridge just west of Cisco, near Interstate 20 about 11:26 p.m. on Sunday, June 18.

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GAITHERSBURG, Md. – A Metro worker was seriously hurt after being hit by a train on Tuesday, May 29, in a rail yard near Shady Grove Station.

Emergency crews work to free railroad worker pinned beneath wheel assembly after Metro train accident in rail yard near Shady Grove station on May 29, 2012. Photo Credit: @mcfirepio

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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FORT WORTH, TX — A man was killed on Monday, June 4, after a westbound Amtrak train hit him as he went down across the tracks. The man was identified as 76-year old Joe Jennings from Fort Worth, Texas.

On June 4, 2012 76 year-old Joe Jennings was killed by an Amtrak train near this intersection of Old Handley Rd and Benton Ave in Fort Worth, TX.

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CORPUS CHRISTI, TX  –  A 47-year old worker at H & H Metals was critically injured this morning and is now battling for his life after being crushed between a rail car and a front loader. The incident occurred at H & H Iron and Metal in the 3700 block of Agnes Street.

Metals yard and derailed rail car in Corpus Christi, TX that pinned a worker to a front loader causing serious, life threatening injury on June 5, 2012. Photo credit: kztv10.com

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