August 31, 2016 | Accident, CP, Headlines
(Source: Reuters, August 21, 2016) TORONTO — A Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd train derailment in Toronto caused a diesel leak near a residential area on Sunday, authorities said. Full story: Reuters
August 16, 2016 | Accident, Headlines, NS
(Source: www.nj.com, August 15, 2016) NEWARK, N.J. — A worker at a Jersey City rail and shipping facility died in an industrial accident this afternoon when a container crushed the machine he was operating. A source with knowledge of the situation said the victim...
July 18, 2016 | Accident, Headlines
(Source: Associated Press, July 18, 2016) BERLIN — German prosecutors have charged a railway dispatcher with negligent homicide in the collision of two commuter trains in Bavaria earlier this year that killed a dozen people. Full story:...
July 14, 2016 | Accident, Headlines
(Source: Reuters, July 13, 2016) BARI, Italy — The death toll from a head-on train collision in southern Italy was put at 23 on Wednesday after rescuers worked through the night to extract bodies from the tangled wreckage. Full story: Reuters
July 13, 2016 | Accident, Headlines
(Source: Sydney Morning Herald, July 13, 2016) ROME — At least 23 people died and dozens were injured on Tuesday when two passenger trains collided at high speed in southern Italy, sending debris flying into surrounding olive groves. Full story: Sydney Morning...
June 29, 2016 | Accident, BNSF, Headlines
(Source: Associated Press, June 28, 2016) AMARILLO, Texas — Floodlights are being brought to the scene of a train collision in Texas as crews prepare to battle into the night a blaze that envelops the wrecked locomotives and lead rail cars. The two BNSF Railway...
April 22, 2016 | Accident, Headlines
(Source: Reuters, April 22, 2016) NEW YORK — A South Korean passenger train derailed near the southern city of Yeosu on Friday, killing an engineer and injuring eight others, the railway operator said. The locomotive and four of the train’s seven passenger cars...
March 8, 2016 | Accident, Commuter Rail, Headlines
(Source: National Public Radio, March 8, 2016) SAN FRANCISCO — A large tree that had fallen onto the tracks caused a Bay Area commuter train to derail Monday night, in an incident that sent nine passengers to the hospital — four of them with serious injuries. Full...
February 23, 2016 | Accident, Headlines
(Source: Atlanta Journal Constitution, February 23, 2016) DALFSEN, Netherlands — Several people suffered injuries and one person died Tuesday morning when a passenger train collided with a hydraulic crane in the Netherlands. The crash happened at about 9 a.m. in the...
February 16, 2016 | Accident, Amtrak, Headlines
(Source: Television station WTOP, February 16, 2016) WASHINGTON, D.C. — In 1996, 11 people were killed in a fiery collision between an Amtrak passenger train and a Maryland commuter train in Silver Spring, Maryland. See photos of the crash. Full story:...
