February 11, 2008 | Accident, Commuter Rail, Headlines
(The following report by Michael Wilson appeared on the New York Times website on February 11.) NEW YORK — A longtime New Jersey Transit track welder was killed when he was hit by a train on Sunday morning near the Ridgewood station, a spokesman for the railroad said....
January 30, 2008 | Accident, Headlines
(The following report by Kim Wendel appeared at WKYC.com on January 30.) OTTAWA COUNTY — Just after 4 a.m. today, high winds sent four railroad cars from a passing train tumbling over a bridge and into Sandusky Bay. One car has also overturned on the tracks....
January 17, 2008 | Accident, Headlines, Short Line
(The following story by Marci Piltz appeared on the Bedford Record-Courier website on January 17.) SUFFIELD, Ohio — Five railroad cars carrying crude oil to a transfer station in Akron derailed early Wednesday on the Wheeling and Lake Erie Railway line in the...
January 16, 2008 | Accident, Commuter Rail, Headlines
(The following story by John Spano appeared on the Los Angeles Times website on January 16.) LOS ANGELES, Calif. — California officials lack the authority to determine whether Metrolink was partly responsible for the deaths of 11 people in a commuter train crash in...
January 4, 2008 | Accident, Headlines, UP
(The following story by Cristina Janney appeared on the Newton Kansan website on January 3.) WHITEWATER, Kan. — A train derailed Wednesday night north of Whitewater, sending cars containing flammable liquid off the track. Twelve cars were overturned about 8 p.m. in a...
January 3, 2008 | Accident, Headlines, NS
(The following report appeared on the Munster Times website on January 3.) PORTAGE, Ind. — What made a locomotive and 10 cars carrying freight jump the tracks Dec. 21 is still under investigation. Rudy Husband, spokesman for Norfolk Southern railroad, said Wednesday...
January 2, 2008 | Accident, Commuter Rail, Headlines
(The following story by Larry Higgs appeared on the Asbury Park Press website on January 1.) ASBURY PARK, N.J. — The train that dragged John D’Agostino to his death on Nov. 21, 2006, in Bradley Beach had a defect that NJ Transit employees had reported three...
December 27, 2007 | Accident, Headlines, UP
(The following report appeared at MyFoxStL.com on December 27.) ST. LOUIS, Mo. — Crews are cleaning up after a train derailment in Pevely, Mo. A Union Pacific train derailed behind the Dow Chemical plant near Highway 61/67 in Pevely. Hazardous material crews and...
December 4, 2007 | Accident, Amtrak, Headlines
(The Associated Press circulated the following on December 3.) CHICAGO — A Michigan family sued Amtrak and Norfolk Southern on Monday, three days after being injured when a passenger train rammed a freight train sitting on the same track on Chicago’s South Side....
December 4, 2007 | Accident, Amtrak, Headlines
(The following story by Rosalind Rossi appeared on the Chicago Sun-Times website on December 4.) CHICAGO — An Amtrak engineer who plowed into the rear of a freight train had been fully certified for only about three months when he sped up — despite a signal that...
