July 10, 2008 | Accident, Headlines, Short Line
(The following story by Tom Alex appeared on the Des Moines Register website on July 9.) GUTTENBURG, Iowa — A freight train derailment early Wednesday that threw several grain cars into the Mississippi River in southern Clayton County was caused by a garage-sized...
July 10, 2008 | Accident, Headlines, Short Line
(Reuters circulated the following on July 9.) CHICAGO — Four engines pulling a freight train tumbled into the Mississippi River in northeastern Iowa on Wednesday after hitting a landslide that may have been caused by heavy rains, officials said. Two workers on the...
July 8, 2008 | Accident, Headlines
(The following story by Linda Deutsch appeared on the San Jose Mercury News website on July 7.) LOS ANGELES — A cry of anguish rang from a victim’s relative as a prosecutor implored jurors Monday to recommend the death penalty for a man convicted of murdering 11...
July 7, 2008 | Accident, Amtrak, Headlines
(The following story by Jason Kobely appeared at News10.net on July 6.) DIXON, Calif. — Four passengers were injured and an Amtrak employee was hospitalized after a train bound for Sacramento was struck by a truck Sunday afternoon, an Amtrak spokeswoman said. The...
July 3, 2008 | Accident, CP, Headlines
(The following story by James Walsh appeared on the Minneapolis Star Tribune website on July 2.) MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. — A legal battle waged between victims of a 2002 train derailment outside Minot, N.D., and the railroad may be heading back to state court for...
July 3, 2008 | Accident, CP, Headlines
(The following story by Jack Keating and Joe Couture appeared on The Province website on July 3.) VANCOUVER, B.C. — Canadian Pacific Railway was trying last night to recover four tanker cars of toxic ethylene glycol after a train derailed about 10 kilometres north of...
July 3, 2008 | Accident, CP, Headlines
(The following story by David Hogben appeared on the Vancouver Sun website on July 3.) LYTTON, B.C. — Divers found no sign of leaks Wednesday at the site of a freight train derailment that threw four chemical-carrying cars off the tracks north of Lytton, said Canadian...
July 3, 2008 | Accident, CP, Headlines
(The Canadian Press circulated the following on July 3.) VANCOUVER — Canadian Pacific Railway (TSX:CP) removed one of four rail cars loaded with chemicals from a four-car derailment Wednesday, though two others remained partially submerged in the Thompson River. The...
June 27, 2008 | Accident, Headlines
(By Robert Jablon of the Associated Press on June 27.) LOS ANGELES (AP) — A man who claimed he was attempting suicide when he triggered a 2005 rail disaster was convicted Thursday of 11 counts of first-degree murder and could face the death penalty. Two commuter...
June 26, 2008 | Accident, Headlines, Short Line
(The following story by Tom Alex appeared on the Des Moines Register website on June 26.) DES MOINES, Iowa — Rescue workers waded through waist-deep water and diesel fuel in the dark to carry a seriously injured railroad engineer to safety. At 11:29 p.m. Tuesday,...
