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Archive for October, 2012

ST. CLOUD, MN. — The St. Cloud Police Department reported on Saturday, October 27, that a BNSF railroad worker was found on the ground next to railroad cars he was been working on.

Map showing location of a train accident in a St. Cloud, MN rail yard near the 1700 block of Breckenridge Ave where a railroad worker was injured by a passing train on Oct. 27, 2012.

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Mike Flanigon, chief investigator for the National Transportation Safety Board said at a news conference on Monday, Oct.22, that the final determination of the cause of Sunday’s crash in Niles, Michigan could take 6 months to a year.

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NILES, Mich. — On Sunday, Oct. 21, an Amtrak train traveling from Chicago to Pontiac, Michigan derailed about 2 miles east of Niles. Amtrak representatives said no life-threatening injuries were reported.

A rail from the train tracks is seen jutting out next to a passenger car in an Amtrak train derailment just northeast of Niles, MI on October 21, 2012.

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WILTON, N.H. — An accident occurred Wednesday morning, Oct 17, at 7:45 a.m. at the Mill Street/Burns Hill Road railroad crossing in the center of Wilton, along the Souhegan River when a single locomotive owned by the Milford-Bennington Railroad Co. struck a Sullivan Paving Co. truck.

A truck driver was taken to the hospital after his paving truck crashed into a train in Wilton, NH on October 17, 2012. Photo credit: Don Himsel / Telegraph

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LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. — A train derailment occurred 9 a.m. on Friday morning, Oct 12, near Long’s Park that shut down Harrisburg Pike up to President Avenue for about an hour.

A Norfolk Southern train derailed in Lancaster, PA on October 12, 2012 on a section of track between Harrisburg Pike and Manheim Pike near Long's Park.

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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Two Gulf and Ohio railroad cars containing ethanol derailed in North Knoxville Friday morning.

Two ethanol tanker cars left the tracks and fell over on their sides when a train derailed in a Norfolk Southern rail yard in Knoxville, TN on October 12, 2012. Photo credit: Local8Now.com

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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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HANFORD, Calif. — Amtrak Train 712 traveling from Oakland to Bakersfield was involved in an accident with a semi truck near the city of Hanford, California in Kings County. According to an Amtrak spokesperson, 169 passengers and four crew members were aboard.

In Hanford, CA a semi truck rammed into a southbound Amtrak passenger train enroute to Bakersfield, CA, derailing the train and injuring the truck driver and over 40 people.

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CHICAGO, IL  — A CTA Red Line train, originally thought to have derailed, is now being called a “split switch issue,” which ended up suspending service on the north branch of the Red Line for about two hours.

A track switching incident on the CTA Red Line near the Granville Station in Edgewater in Chicago, IL caused one of the passenger cars to veer off its tracks on October 1, 2012. The front and rear wheels of the rail car wound up on two different tracks.

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