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RENO, NV – The Amtrak conductor who was killed in last Friday’s deadly Reno train accident with an 18 wheeler truck has been identified as Amtrak employee, Laurette Lee.

Amtrak told KOLO 8 News that Lee was a conductor and a long-time employee. She began working with the company in 1988 and worked out of Amtrak’s Reno crew base. ... Read More

PLANADA, CA – A 23 year old man was struck and killed by an Amtrak passenger train on June 6, 2011 while crossing the tracks in the small town of Planada, CA.

Rescue workers remove the body of the victim who was struck by an Amtrak passenger train in Planada, CA on June 6, 2011.

Planada is located in Merced County, California in the central part of the state, about 10 miles east of Merced. ... Read More

BAKERSFIELD, CA – Three tanker cars hauling oil and operated by the San Joaquin Valley Railroad Company jumped the tracks in Bakersfield, CA on on Thursday, March 24, 2011.

Three tanker cars from a San Joaquin Valley Railroad train derail in Bakersfield, CA on March 24, 2011.

Bakersfield is located in Kern County, California in the southern-central part of the state about 279 miles southeast of Sacramento. ... Read More

BAKERSFIELD, CA. – On Novenber 3, the FELA lawyer news blog wrote a story titled BNSF Proposal to Transfer Bakersfield Workers to Barstow Meets Resistance. The story was about the BNSF rail company’s proposal to transfer about 100 Bakersfield employees to the Barstow area.

Now the BNSF railroad workers and their families say  there is another reason to avoid the transfer – contaminated water. Barstow’s water supply county was found to have traces of a toxic chemical that’s used to make rocket fuel and explosives and San Bernadino residents were warned late last week not to drink the tap water. ... Read More

FONTANA, CA – The conductor of a westbound Union Pacific freight train in Fontana, California was critically injured after crashing into the back of a slow moving freight car that was going in the opposite direction on the same tracks.

Union Pacific train conductor's arm amputated in Fontana, CA train accident. Photo credit: KTLA-TV

The accident happened late Thursday evening, September 9, 2010 at about 11:55 p.m. on the tracks that run alongside Interstate 10 (the San Bernardino Freeway) near the Cherry Avenue exit. ... Read More

INDUSTRY, CA – A Union Pacific train derailed in the City of Industry, CA on Monday, July 12, 2010 at around 10:50 p.m. The derailment occurred along a section of track that runs between Fullerton Road and South Lemon Ave. alongside Valley Blvd.

City of Industry, CA derailment site at railway crossing - Fairway Drive facing east.

The City of Industry is located in Los Angeles, County in southern California about 20 miles southeast of Los Angeles, about 116 miles northwest of San Diego, about 401 miles southeast of San Francisco, about 404 miles southeast of Sacramento and about 47 miles southwest of San Bernardino. ... Read More

WATSONVILLE, CA – A train brake operator was injured when an 18 wheeler big-rig was torn in two Thursday afternoon on April 15, 2010 when it collided with a train on West Beach Street. The truck strew hundreds of gallon buckets filled with frozen strawberries across the road, blocking traffic for about five hours.

The truck driver was traveling eastbound on West Beach Street near Industrial Road around noon, Watsonville police officer Lee Katich said. The train was backing up on the north side of West Beach, heading south. The semi truck was traveling slower than the speed limit witnesses told officers, before it crashed into the train. ... Read More

LOS ANGELES, CA – Metrolink conductors and engineers are objecting to  an agreement between Metrolink and its new operator, Amtrak because it would require crews to pass personality tests in order to keep their jobs.

Metrolink - Southern California Regional Commuter Rail Service

Two railroad unions are objecting to the agreement and are threatening a boycott of the new personality-profiling tests that are being required in the wake of the disastrous Chatsworth crash in 2008 that killed 25 people. ... Read More

EL MONTE, CA – A Union Pacific railroad worker was killed by a Metrolink train at the Temple Avenue crossing near Valley Boulevard and the 605 Freeway in El Monte, California. The train accident occurred Saturday morning, March 20, 2010 at about 9:20 am. El Monte is located about 13 1/2 miles east of Los Angeles, in southern California. In the accident, three passengers on the train were also injured, although their injuries were not reported as life threatening.

Site of the Metrolink train crash El Monte, CA that killed a Union Pacific railroad worker and injured three other passengers on the train. Photo Credit: Anne Cusack / Los Angeles Times

The deceased railroad worker, whose name has not been released, was on a railway crossing when the Union Pacific maintenance truck he was sitting in was struck by the Metrolink train. ... Read More