October 15, 2013 | Accident, Headlines
(Source: Los Angeles Times, October 12, 2013) LOS ANGELES — One person was killed and 23 were injured when a logging truck collided with a tourist train in rural West Virginia, officials said. Investigators believe the driver of the logging truck failed to brake at a...
October 10, 2013 | Accident, Headlines, UP
(Source: Land Line Magazine, October 9, 2013) MIDLAND, Texas — A flatbed truck hauling pipes became stuck on railroad tracks in Midland, Texas, and was struck by a train on Wednesday, Oct. 9. There were no reported injuries. Midland has been the site of some...
September 30, 2013 | Accident, Commuter Rail, Headlines
(Source: CNN, September 30, 2013) CHICAGO — A Chicago commuter train that was parked in a service yard somehow moved onto a rail line and smashed into an oncoming train early Monday, injuring dozens of people. How it happened is a mystery. At least 48 people were...
September 20, 2013 | Accident, Canada, Headlines
(Source: In These Times, September 19, 2013) When a runaway train slammed into the small Quebec town of Lac-Megantic in July, incinerating the city’s core and killing 47 people, it may have marked the end of the line for the perilous, profit-maximizing model of...
September 20, 2013 | Accident, Headlines, VIA Rail
(Source: CBC.ca, September 20, 2013) TORONTO — The Ottawa city bus involved in a horrific crash with a Via passenger train Wednesday that left six people dead has been towed away from the scene. The investigators will be looking at data obtained from recorders on both...
September 20, 2013 | Accident, Headlines, VIA Rail
(Source: Globe and Mail, September 20, 2013) TORONTO — When disaster looms down the track, there’s little a train engineer can do – apply the brakes, then hope. That was the only option facing Paul Proudlock, 46, about two years ago along his freight route near...
September 17, 2013 | Accident, Headlines
(Source: Canton Daily Ledger, September 17, 2013) CANTON, Ill. — No injuries have been reported after a bridge collapsed and dumped train cars into the Spoon River. Full story: Canton Daily Ledger
September 17, 2013 | Accident, Headlines
(Source: South Jersey Times, September 16, 2013) PAULSBORO, N.J. — Less than a mile from where a train derailed and spilled a dangerous chemical into the air last November, a second train derailed Monday, reiterating calls for greater rail industry safety and...
September 13, 2013 | Accident, Headlines
(Source: Los Angeles Daily News, September 12, 2013) LOS ANGELES — A memorial plaque was unveiled at the Metrolink station in Moorpark on Thursday, the fifth anniversary of the train crash in Chatsworth that killed 25 people and injured 135 others. Full story: Los...
September 12, 2013 | Accident, Headlines
(Source: New York Times, September 9, 2013) PARIS — Over the past 12 years, the European Union has pushed to transform national rail systems into a single market as a critical element of the Continent’s economic and political integration. But several recent high...
