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Accident Investigations

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HQ-2016-1149 (Finalized)

Kansas City Southern Railway (KCS) northbound train CTUKC-07, proceeding on signal indication in centralized train control territory on single main track, struck a 2011 grey Chevy Malibu (struck vehicle), with five occupants at a highway-rail grade crossing on August 7, 2016, at 1:19 p.m., CST,...

HQ-2016-1140 (Finalized)

On June 26, 2016, at 9:45 a.m., MDT, westbound Amtrak Train ATK 3-1-25 struck a 2005 Chrysler Town & Country passenger van with six occupants on BNSF Railway’s (BNSF) Powder River Division, Raton Subdivision near Trinidad, Colorado. The collision occurred at Las Animas County Road 75.1 (CO 75.1...

HQ-2016-1169 (Finalized)

On November 16, 2016, at 3:55 a.m., EST, a northbound CSX Transportation (CSX) freight train, K21014 (striking train), collided with a southbound CSX freight train, N00113 (struck train). The striking train failed to stop for a red signal at NE Sparr at Milepost (MP) S718.6 on CSX’s Wildwood...

HQ-2016-1112 (Finalized)

On February 9, 2016, at approximately 9:55 a.m., EST, CSX Transportation (CSX) Train H71109 derailed two locomotives and three intermodal cars while traveling from CSX’s Columbus Van Yard in Columbus, Ohio, to CSX’s Marysville Honda in Marysville, Ohio. Train H71109 was traveling with an EC-1...

HQ-2016-1165 (Finalized)

On October 28, 2016, at about 8:22 a.m., EDT, a westbound CSX Transportation (CSX) freight train, Q19326 (striking train), traveling on double main track (Track No. 1), at a recorded speed of 25 mph, collided head-on into a stopped, eastbound CSX freight train, V75327 (struck train), on CSX’s...

HQ-2016-1143 (Finalized)

An Amtrak passenger train, P098-06, traveling on South Florida Regional Transit Authority/Tri-Rail (SFRV) Main Track No. 2, in traffic control system territory, collided with a motor vehicle at a highway-rail grade crossing on July 6, 2016, at 10:00 a.m., EDT. The accident occurred in West Palm...

HQ-2016-1139 (Finalized)

On June 13, 2016, at approximately 4:00 a.m., EDT, CSX Transportation (CSX) mixed freight Train Q37312, operating west by timetable direction, at a recorded speed of 24 mph, with 8 head-end locomotives, 18 loads and 106 empties, 6,708 tons, and 8,341 feet in length, derailed 13 cars in Baltimore...

HQ-2016-1123 (Summary Report) (Finalized)

On Sunday, April 3, 2016, at 7:49 a.m., EDT, southbound National Railroad Passenger Corporation Train 89 (Amtrak 89) was operating on Amtrak’s Philadelphia to Washington (PW) segment of the Northeast Corridor (NEC), Track 3 at 106 miles per hour (mph) near Chester, PA when the Engineer noticed...

HQ-2015-1047 (Finalized)

On May 6, 2015, at 7:30 a.m. (CDT), an eastbound BNSF Railway (BNSF) loaded petroleum crude oil unit train, UTIOCXP0- 44T, derailed six loaded oil tank cars (consist positions 84 through 89), near the town of Heimdal, North Dakota, while operating at a recorded speed of 24 mph. The town of Heimdal...

HQ-2016-1142 (Finalized)

On June 27, 2016, at approximately 6:00 p.m., MDT, a westbound Union Pacific Railroad (UP) loaded Intermodal Train, KG1LAC-26, derailed 19 rail cars/platforms, of its 130-car/platform train. The accident/incident occurred approximately 8 miles west of Green River, Wyoming, at Milepost (MP) 824.81,...