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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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GREAT FALLS, MT. -  Two BNSF employees were injured on Tuesday, July 19, on Gerber Road just southeast of Great Falls, Montana when a freight train rear-ended another train causing 13 of 110 BNSF Railway cars with three locomotives to derail.

Clean up efforts underway one day after Tuesday's BNSF train derailment southeast of Great Falls, MT alongside Gerber Road on July 19, 2011. Photo credit: Seth Dahl/Great Falls Tribune

The Federal Railroad Administration is investigating the cause of the crash at this time.
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ROCK CREEK, MT – On Tuesday afternoon at around 2 p.m. seventeen BNSF railroad cars derailed off of the western portion of Montana’s Hi-Line on Tuesday afternoon, just south of the Flathead Tunnel.

The train, which was headed from Moore, Montana to Kalama, Washington, was carrying over 100 cars of wheat when it derailed in Rock Creek, around 2 pm. Rock Creek is about 52 west of White Fish, MT. ... Read More

FORT BENTON, MT – Five cars from a BNSF train derailed west of Fort Benton, MT on Friday, July 9, 2010 at about 1:30 p.m., spilling about 50 tons of grain. The train was only going less than 5 mph when the cars left the tracks.

Toppled grain cars lie on their sides in a BNSF train derailment near Fort Benton, MT

Fort Benton is in Chouteau County, Montana in the north-central part of the state, about 41 miles northeast of Great Falls, about 131 miles northeast of Helena, about 206 miles northeast of Missoula, about 225 miles northwest of Billings, about 217 miles north of Bozeman and about 196 miles northeast of Butte. ... Read More