January 6, 2006 | Accident, Commuter Rail, Headlines
(The following article by Edie Gross was posted on the Free Lance Star website on January 6.) FREDERICKSBURG, Va. — The past year has been a rough one for the Virginia Railway Express and the 8,000 or so passengers who depend on the commuter train each day. The...
January 6, 2006 | Accident, Commuter Rail, Headlines
(The Associated Press circulated the following article on January 5.) QUANTICO, Va. — A commuter train carrying 400 passengers toward Washington derailed during Thursday morning’s rush hour, injuring at least four people and tying up rail travel. The...
January 6, 2006 | Accident, Commuter Rail, Headlines
(The Associated Press circulated the following article on January 5.) QUANTICO, Va. — A commuter train carrying 400 passengers toward Washington derailed during Thursday morning’s rush hour, injuring at least four people and tying up rail travel. The...
January 5, 2006 | Accident, BNSF, Headlines
(The following article was posted on the Peoria Journal Star website on January 5.) GALESBURG, Ill. — More than 300 tons of coal were dumped on the side of a railroad track Wednesday morning after a BNSF train derailed. BNSF spokesman Steve Forsberg said the...
January 5, 2006 | Accident, BNSF, Headlines
(The following article was posted on the Peoria Journal Star website on January 5.) GALESBURG, Ill. — More than 300 tons of coal were dumped on the side of a railroad track Wednesday morning after a BNSF train derailed. BNSF spokesman Steve Forsberg said the...
December 28, 2005 | Accident, Headlines
(The Associated Press circulated the following story on December 27.) TOKYO — The president of a Japanese railroad is resigning to take responsibility for an April derailment that killed 107 people, the country’s deadliest railway accident in decades, a company...
December 21, 2005 | Accident, CSX, Headlines
(The Marietta Times posted the following article on its website on December 20.) MARIETTA, Ohio — State and federal railroad inspectors have ruled out a faulty bridge as the cause of Monday morning’s derailment of eight coal-filled rail cars on Virginia Street...
December 20, 2005 | Accident, CSX, Headlines
(The following article by Jolene Craig and Justin McIntosh was posted on the Parkersburg News website on December 20.) MARIETTA, Ohio — An inspection five months ago on the Marietta railroad bridge that collapsed early Monday sending coal cars tumbling onto...
December 19, 2005 | Accident, Headlines
(The following article by Deb Nicklay was posted on the Mason City Globe Gazette website on December 19.) NORA SPRINGS, Iowa — The Sunday morning derailment here of an IC&E Railroad car, filled with anhydrous ammonia, was not life threatening, Fire Chief...
December 19, 2005 | Accident, CSX, Headlines
(The following article by Justin McIntosh was posted on the Marietta Times website on December 19.) MARIETTA, Ohio — Eight CSX rail cars filled with coal derailed from their tracks near Ohio 7 outside Marietta early this morning, sending several of them crashing...
