August 28, 2007 | Accident, Headlines, NS
(The following report appeared on the Canton Repository website on August 28.) CANTON, Ohio — A worker at the Norfolk Southern rail yard lost a portion of a leg in an accident Saturday morning at the company’s yard on Division Road NE. Norfolk spokesman Rudy Husband...
August 22, 2007 | Accident, Headlines, KCS
(The following story by Gabe Smith appeared on the Commercial Dispatch website on August 21.) ABERDEEN, Miss. — A Starkville man is dead after driving his county-owned vehicle into the engine of a moving train Monday morning, causing several rail cars to derail from a...
July 26, 2007 | Accident, CSX, Headlines
(The following story by Stephen Gurr appeared on The Gainesville Times website on July 26.) GAINESVILLE, Ga. — April Eubanks was reading a Bible story to three toddlers Wednesday at the Faith Christian Academy preschool on Candler Road when she heard the train whistle...
July 23, 2007 | Accident, Amtrak, Headlines
(The following story by Pat Walters appeared on the St. Petersburg Times website on July 22.) ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Silver Star No. 91 screamed as it hurtled the tracks from Jacksonville to Tampa one day last fall. One and a half thousand tons of smooth, silver metal...
July 18, 2007 | Accident, Headlines
(The following report appeared on the Post-Tribune website on July 18.) GARY, Ind. — The number of train-automobile accidents and fatalities in Indiana have reached an all-time low, but Lake County leads all counties by a large margin, according to a state report. The...
July 18, 2007 | Accident, Amtrak, Headlines
(The Associated Press circulated the following story by Mitch Stacy on July 17.) TAMPA, Fla. — An Amtrak passenger train collided with a truck and derailed Tuesday, killing the truck driver, authorities said. The train was on the same route as one involved in a fatal...
July 17, 2007 | Accident, Headlines
(The Associated Press circulated the following on July 17.) KIEV, Ukraine — Hundreds of Ukrainians were evacuated from their homes Tuesday after a train derailed and released a cloud of toxic gas into the air that affected 14 villages. Twenty people were poisoned and...
July 17, 2007 | Accident, CSX, Headlines
(The following story by Shelbia Brown appeared on the Spartanburg Herald Journal website on July 17.) DUNCAN, S.C. — CSX Corp. is investigating what caused one of the transportation company’s freight trains to derail en route to Spartanburg Monday morning. The...
July 17, 2007 | Accident, Amtrak, Headlines
(The following story by Diane Lacey Allen appeared on the Lakeland Ledger website on July 16.) LAKELAND, Fla. — Four people were killed when a car was struck by an Amtrak train on tracks on Wabash Avenue in West Lakeland this afternoon. There were no injuries on the...
July 16, 2007 | Accident, BNSF, Headlines
(The following report appeared on the Argus Leader website on July 16.) SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — A train collision Sunday morning near Garretson damaged an engine, a few train cars and their loads and lifted several cars off the tracks. Cleanup crews with Burlington...
