November 6, 2012 | Accident, BNSF, Headlines
(Source: Associated Press, November 5, 2012) LESTER, Iowa — Evacuations forced by the derailment of 22 rail cars in far northwest Iowa ended Monday, a county official said. Twenty-two cars on a BNSF Railway train of 100 cars derailed Sunday morning, including one that...
November 6, 2012 | Accident, Headlines, Short Line
(Source: Associated Press, November 5, 2012) LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Paducah & Louisville Railway has paid out at least $325,000 to reimburse people evacuated from their homes because of a chemical fire from a derailed tanker car, seeking to compensate evacuees who...
November 5, 2012 | Accident, Headlines
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — People began trickling back to their homes in West Point on Sunday night — four days after they were ordered to leave after a chemical explosion and fire at a train derailment in nearby southwest Louisville. Full story: Louisville...
November 2, 2012 | Accident, CSX, Headlines
(Source: Louisville Courier-Journal, November 2, 2012) LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Even though a fire continued to burn inside a rail car late Thursday and could still be burning Friday, authorities stopped warning people to stay indoors and pledged to resume a delicate and...
November 1, 2012 | Accident, Headlines
(Source: Associated Press, November 1, 2012) LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Flames from a derailed train car sent people rushing out of neighborhoods and an entire town near Louisville on Wednesday while firefighters tried to douse the chemical blaze that left three workers badly...
July 13, 2012 | Accident, Headlines, NS
(Source: Dayton Daily News, July 12, 2012) DAYTON, Ohio — The number of railroad cars carrying hazardous materials involved in accidents in Ohio increased by 152 percent in the past 10 years — from 129 in 2002 to 326 last year — but industry officials stress railroad...
January 11, 2012 | Accident, CSX, Headlines
(Source: Chicago Sun-Times, January 10, 2012) CHICAGO — Numerous emergency workers who responded to a three-train crash in Northwest Indiana Friday became violently ill over the weekend, and authorities said it might have been the food served to them — and not the...
January 11, 2012 | Accident, BNSF, Headlines
(Source: Amarillo Globe-News, January 10, 2011) AMARILLO, Texas — Police have identified the man who died Monday after he was struck and pulled under a rail car as Neil Thomas Touvell. Touvell, 57, worked as a maintenance welder for Burlington Northern Sante Fe...
January 9, 2012 | Accident, Headlines
(Source: Munster Times, January 7, 2012) JACKSON TOWNSHIP, Ind. — Federal officials are investigating Friday’s crew members injured, but a final report won’t be released for at least nine months. Full story: Munster Times
September 14, 2011 | Accident, Headlines
(Source: Ventura County Star, September 12, 2011) LOS ANGELES, Calif. — Three years after the fatal Metrolink crash in California, several survivors and family members of those who lost loved ones joined together for an impromptu ceremony held at a special memorial...
