June 24, 2009 | Accident, Headlines
(The following story by Lena H. Sun and Lyndsey Layton appeared on the Washington Post website on June 24, 2009.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The operator of the Metro train that slammed into a stationary train in front of it apparently had activated the emergency brakes in a...
June 23, 2009 | Accident, CN, Headlines
(The following story by Corina Curry appeared on the Rockford Register-Star website on June 22, 2009.) ROCKFORD, Ill. — A Winnebago County sheriff sergeant was on the phone with a Canadian National Railway representative 21 minutes before the rail company’s 114-car...
June 22, 2009 | Accident, CN, Headlines
(The following story by Mike Wiser appeared on the Rockford Register-Star website on June 21, 2009.) ROCKFORD, Ill. — The crew of the Canadian National Railway train was reporting high water along the tracks at the moment its cars started to derail. That was one of...
June 8, 2009 | Accident, Canada, Headlines
(Canwest News Service circulated the following story on June 7, 2009.) OSHAWA, Ont. — Cleanup crews with the Canadian Pacific Railway remained at the scene Saturday of a major train derailment east of Toronto. CPR spokesman Mike LoVecchio said crews completed an...
June 8, 2009 | Accident, Canada, Headlines
(The following story by Kenyon Wallace and Jason Miller appeared on the Toronto Star website on June 5, 2009.) TORONTO — Oshawa resident Charlie Stacey was getting ready to take his dogs for a walk around 2:20 p.m. Friday when, “all of a sudden, the whole ground...
June 8, 2009 | Accident, Canada, Headlines
(Canwest News Service circulated the following story by Natalie Alcoba on June 7, 2009.) OSHAWA, Ont. — A Canadian Pacific Railway train carrying hydrogen peroxide derailed in a central neighbourhood here Friday afternoon, pushing cars into nearby backyards and a...
May 12, 2009 | Accident, Headlines
(The following story by Audrey Parente and Eileen Zaffiro appeared on the News-Journal website on May 11, 2009.) DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Hydrochloric acid started leaking from one of the train cars that derailed near Hargrove Grade and U.S. 1 near Palm Coast, but the...
March 31, 2009 | Accident, Headlines
(The following appeared on the Seattle Times website on March 31, 2009.) SEATTLE — A worker was injured Monday morning when he was struck by the locomotive of a train that carries equipment and employees through a tunnel being bored to carry treated water from the...
March 16, 2009 | Accident, Headlines
(The following story by Rich Connell appeared on the Los Angeles Times website on March 16, 2009.) LOS ANGELES — The recent drumbeat of news about the reckless behavior and questionable oversight of the Metrolink engineer suspected of causing last year’s...
March 16, 2009 | Accident, Amtrak, Headlines
(The following story by Dennis Yohnka appeared on The Daily Journal website on March 15, 2009.) KANKAKEE, Ill. — Hell came to Bourbonnais, March 15, 1999. Amtrak’s popular City of New Orleans passenger train rammed a semitrailer truck at a crossing north of town...
