November 8, 2022 | Fatality, Headlines, UP
(Source: Television station KPRC, November 7, 2022) SPRING, Texas — A railroad worker died at the hospital after an explosion caused by fuel at a railroad track near Old Town Spring Saturday morning, authorities said. Officials with Harris County Fire Marshall’s...
November 4, 2022 | Amtrak, BNSF, Fatality, Headlines
(Source: Television station KMBC, November 3, 2022) CHARITON, Mo. — Attorneys for multiple passengers from an Amtrak train that derailed near Mendon, Missouri, in June want a federal judge to toss out a request by BNSF Railway to force those passengers and their...
October 26, 2022 | Fatality, Headlines, UP
(Source: Associated Press, October 25, 2022) STONINGTON, Illinois — A man killed last week in a central Illinois train accident has been identified as a worker who had been with a local grain cooperative for nearly a half-century, authorities said. Police said the...
October 18, 2022 | Amtrak, BNSF, Fatality, Headlines
(Source: Television station KMIZ, October 17, 2022) COLUMBIA, Mo. — Amtrak and BNSF are asking judges to move at least three cases over a deadly summer train crash because too few people live in Chariton County. The train derailed after hitting a dump truck at a...
September 30, 2022 | Fatality, Headlines, NTSB, UP
(Source: Associated Press, September 29, 2022) The collision that killed two Union Pacific employees earlier this month in Southern California happened when the train slammed into 92 empty railcars that had been stored on a side track for nine months, NTSB...
September 22, 2022 | Amtrak, BNSF, Fatality, Headlines
(Source: Trains Magazine, September 22, 2022) BNSF Railway has asked a federal court to rule that those who have sued over the June derailment of Amtrak’s Southwest Chief must settle matters through arbitration rather than lawsuits, and asked that state suits be...
September 21, 2022 | Fatality, Headlines, NTSB, UP
(Source: Television station KFOX14/CBS4, September 20, 2022) EL PASO, Texas — A preliminary report has been issued regarding the deadly train derailment in the Lower Valley in August. On August 29 around 9:14 p.m. the conductor of a Union Pacific Railroad train,...
September 9, 2022 | Derailment, Fatality, Headlines, UP
(Source: Los Angeles Times, September 8, 2022) Two Union Pacific train crew members were killed early Thursday when their train crashed into parked freight cars near the Salton Sea, officials said. The freight train had been traveling through a desolate stretch of...
September 2, 2022 | CN, Fatality, Headlines, Short Line
(Source: Associated Press, September 1, 2022) MOBILE, Ala. — A train engineer who was allegedly chatting on video when his locomotive struck heavy equipment on the tracks in south Alabama, killing a Mississippi man, was charged with reckless manslaughter in the crash,...
August 31, 2022 | Derailment, Fatality, Headlines, UP
(Source: CNN, August 30, 2022) A train conductor was killed in a train derailment in El Paso, Texas, late Monday night, officials said. Two train cars derailed, damaging a backyard shed, a fence, and a gas meter and leading to the evacuation of about 50 people from...
