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PORT OF TAMPA, Fla. — Tampa Bay firefighters used foam to clean up ethanol that leaked from three rail cars after an 81-car CSX train derailed at Florida’s Port of Tampa. Hazmat-trained firefighters have laid a coating of foam on top of the spill to keep it from catching fire. Equipment is being transported from Atlanta to upright the toppled railroad cars.

Photo shows Tampa firefighters working on a derailed CSX train in Tampa, Florida. The rescue team used foam to clean up ethanol that leaked from a CSX train that derailed at the Port of Tampa. According to Tampa Fire Rescue officials, 15 rail cars derailed early Thursday on July 25, 2013. Photo: Tampa Bay Police

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BRONX, NY – A trash train derailed in the Bronx, NY on Thursday, July 18, 2013 and tied up commuter rail travel on the Metro-North Hudson line through the weekend. The Bronx is a borough of New York City, NY located north of Manhattan and across the Hudson River from New Jersey.

Ten cars of a trash train in The Bronx, NY derailed on July 18, 2013, interrupting commuter rail service of the Metro-North Hudson line in New York during extensive track repairs and clean up.

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ALEDO, TX – The media reported that a railroad worker was injured in a Union Pacific train derailment in Aledo, TX on July 18, 2013. Two locomotives and seven rail cars jumped the tracks while the train was entering the main line off a side track that runs parallel to the main line.

A railroad worker was injured when a Union Pacific train derailed in Aledo, TX on July 18, 2013.

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NORTH LITTLE ROCK, AR – A car that was stalled at a rail crossing was hit by a train in North Little Rock, AR on July 12, 2013. North Little Rock is located in Pulaski County, Arkansas in the central part of the state about 3 miles northeast of Little Rock and about 154 miles southeast of Fort Smith.

A stalled car was hit by a train at a rail crossing in North Little Rock, AR on July 12, 2013.

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WELLINGTON, KS – A BNSF railroad worker was critically injured after getting pinned under the wheels of a rail car in Wellington, KS on July 9, 2013. Wellington is located in Sumner County, KS in the southern part of the state about 35 miles south of Wichita near the northern border of Oklahoma.

Map shows location where a BNSF railroad worker was critically injured after getting pinned under the wheels of a rail car just west of Fair St in Wellington, KS on July 9, 2013.

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HAMILTON, OH – A CSX train derailed in Hamilton, OH on July 5, 2013 causing some traffic delays. Hamilton is located in Butler County, Ohio in the southwestern part of the state, about 35 miles north of Cincinnati.

A CSX train derailed in Hamilton, OH on July 5, 2013. Photo credit: Adam Robbins / WKRC TV.

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HOUSTON, TX – Residents in the area of Oldham St and Sherman St in East Houston, TX had to be evacuated following a Union Pacific Train Derailment on June 30, 2013.

Several cars from a Union Pacific train derailed in Houston, TX on June 30, 2013 causing local residents to be evacuated from their homes due to possible hazardous materials .

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FONDA, NY – At least one railroad worker was reported injured after two CSX trains collided in Fonda, NY derailing several rail cars and badly damaging one of the trains. Fonda is a village in Montgomery County in central New York state about a mile from the village of Fultonville and about 46 miles northwest of Albany.

Two CSX trains collided and derailed near Fonda, NY on June 27, 2013 causing several rail cars to jump the tracks sending at least one rail car across the roadway blocking traffic on State Route 5 and sending one injured railroad worker to the hospital. Photo: Levi Pascher/The Leader-Herald.

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PANHANDLE, TX – A BNSF train derailed in Panhandle, TX on June 21, 2013 tipping over 42 rail cars in high winds. Panhandle is

Photo shows a BNSF train derailed in Panhandle, TX during high winds sending 42 out of 47 cars off the tracks at 1:00 a.m. on June 21, 2013.

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Less than three weeks after a Metro-North train struck and killed a railroad worker near West Haven, Federal investigators on Monday, June 17, issued an “urgent safety recommendation” saying the railroad should act quickly and start using a basic safety device to protect workers on its tracks. Metro-North railroad said they will implement a pilot program of using a shunting system to increase the safety of workers on the tracks.

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