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ROCKVIEW, MO – A 75-car BNSF train carrying scrap metal was broadsided by a Union Pacific train hauling auto parts at a rail intersection in Rockview, MO on May 25, 2013. The accident injured two railroad workers and several motorists. Rockview is located in Scott County, MO in the southeastern part of the state about 126 miles southeast of St. Louis.

Rail cars and a concrete roadway lay in a heap after a collision between a Union Pacific train and a BNSF train caused a highway overpass to collapse in Rockview, MO on May 25, 2013.

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ROCKVIEW, MO — A Union Pacific train traveling from Chicago to Mexico with three locomotives and 112 cars derailed on Tuesday evening, January, 29, near Rockview Missouri in Scott County.

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IMPERIAL, MO. — A BNSF train bound for Memphis derailed on Friday, Jan. 11, in Imperial, Missouri prompting authorities to evacuate nineteen homes on Churchill Court as a precaution due to residual chemicals inside two rail cars. Residents were allowed to return to their homes that evening.

Nine rail cars of a 92 car BNSF train derailed in Imperial, MO along a section of track running between cemetery plots on one side and residential homes on the other.

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SOUTH ST. LOUIS, MO — The media reported that 12 train cars derailed on Thursday night, Dec 20, in South St. Louis Missouri. Reports said that the cars were hauling taconite, which are iron ore pellets used in a variety of metals. The cargo was reportedly non hazardous and none of it was spilled.

Twelve rail cars derailed in St. Louis, MO on December 20, 2012. The cars were reported to have been carrying taconite, considered to be a low grade iron ore.

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MIAMI COUNTY, MO.– A Union Pacific train consisting of 106 railroad cars derailed on Wednesday, August 15, plunging several rail cars into the Marais Des Cygnes River. Mark Davis, a spokesman for Union Pacific, told the media that only 23 rail cars derailed, but some struck the railroad bridge over the river.

Several rail cars plunged into the Marais Des Cygnes River when a Union Pacific freight train derailed on August 15, 2012 on a bridge in Miami County, KS just outside Osawatomie.

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BARTON COUNTY, Mo. — Two railroad workers were taken to a local hospital from injuries sustained after Kansas City Southern and BNSF trains collided in Barton County, Missouri.

Two railroad workers were injured in a collision between a BNSF train and a Kansas City Southern train in Barton County, MO on July 21, 2012. Wreckage and debris were heaped in a pileup of locomotives and rail cars.

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SPRINGFIELD, MO – On February 10, 2012 in a Springfield, MO rail yard, a railroad worker found the severed arm of a man who was killed in January in a train accident in Montana after stepping in front of a moving train.

On February 10, 2012 in a Springfield, MO rail yard a BNSF railroad worker found the severed arm of a man who was killed in a train accident in Libby, Montana the previous January after stepping in front of a moving train while committing suicide.

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