April 13, 2007 | Accident, Headlines, UP
(The following story by Kathy Aney appeared on the East Oregonian website on April 13.) UMATILLA, Ore. — A train derailed near Umatilla Thursday morning. Seven tanker cars, part of a train that included two Union Pacific engines, 11 cars and a caboose, slipped off the...
April 13, 2007 | Accident, CN, Headlines
(The Canadian Press circulated the following story by Dirk Meissner on April 13.) VICTORIA — Search warrants were executed yesterday at CN Rail offices in British Columbia and Alberta related to the 2005 train derailment and the spill of caustic soda into the...
April 13, 2007 | Accident, BNSF, Headlines
(The following report appeared on The Billings Gazette website on April 13.) BILLINGS, Mont. — A BNSF Railway employee was being treated at St. Vincent Healthcare this week after a train ran over his foot at a rail yard in Forsyth. Tim Fulton was injured Monday...
April 9, 2007 | Accident, BNSF, Headlines
(The Associated Press circulated the following on April 9.) YAKIMA, Wash. — Officials in Yakima are investigating what caused four railroad cars to derail and crash into a warehouse Sunday afternoon. No injuries were reported in the incident about 4:30 p.m. next to an...
April 9, 2007 | Accident, CSX, Headlines
(The following story by Dave Gustafson appeared on the Charleston Gazette website on April 5. CSX’s call to 911 is available here: http://webad.cnpapers.com/trainderail) CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A set of train tracks in western Kanawha County might reopen as soon as today...
April 4, 2007 | Accident, CSX, Headlines
(The Associated Press circulated the following article on April 4.) CHARLESTON, WVa. — A boulder the size of a city bus is blamed for a train derailment Wednesday that left a locomotive partially submerged in the Coal River near St. Albans. No injuries were...
April 4, 2007 | Accident, BNSF, Headlines
(The following article by Emily Arthur was posted on the Aberdeen American News website on April 4.) ABERDEEN, S.D. — A Burlington Northern-Sante Fe Railroad train derailed in Aberdeen on Tuesday afternoon, forcing authorities to reroute traffic around Sixth...
April 4, 2007 | Accident, Headlines, UP
(The following article by Steve Moore was posted on the Press-Enterprise website on April 4.) PENINSULA, Calif. — A Union Pacific train headed from the Midwest to Los Angeles derailed Tuesday in the Riverside County desert north of the Salton Sea along Highway...
April 3, 2007 | Accident, Headlines
(The following article by Travis Gulbrandson was posted on the Pierre Capital Journal website on April 2.) PIERRE, S.D. — Slightly more than two weeks after the derailment of a Dakota, Minnesota & Eastern Railroad train in central Pierre, some of the final...
March 27, 2007 | Accident, CN, Headlines
(The Associated Press circulated the following story on March 26.) GLENDORA, Miss. — About 200 residents were allowed to return home Monday after firefighters put out a blaze that erupted when a train carrying liquid propane hit a fuel truck in the small Tallahatchie...
