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Accident Investigations

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HQ-2015-1061 (Finalized)

Summary Report: On July 1, 2015, at 11:45 p.m., EDT, a southbound CSX Transportation (CSX) freight train, Number S541-01 (“the accident train”), originating in Cincinnati, Ohio, and consisting of two locomotives, 45 loaded, and 12 empty freight cars, derailed. Only the 37th car, a tank car with...

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On May 13, 2016, at approximately 12:32 p.m., PDT, westbound Amtrak Passenger Train No. 713, traveling at a recorded speed of 79 mph on BNSF Railway’s (BNSF) main line track, struck a motor vehicle at a private highway-rail grade crossing near the city of Madera, California. As a result of the...

HQ-2016-1126 (Finalized)

On May 1, 2016, at about 6:34 a.m., EST, an eastbound CSX Transportation (CSX) mixed freight train, Q40130, traveling on double main track (Track No. 2), at a recorded speed of 27 mph derailed 16 cars on CSX’s Baltimore Division, Metropolitan Subdivision in Washington, DC, in Ward 5. Train Q40130...

HQ-2016-1132 (Finalized)

On May 18, 2016, at about 6:11 p.m., CST, northbound Amtrak Passenger Train 58-18 collided with an eastbound vehicle at the Kearney Park road public highway-rail grade crossing (DOT Crossing Number 300881S) in Flora, Mississippi, on Canadian National Railway's (CN) Yazoo Subdivision at Milepost 200...

HQ-2016-1116 (Finalized)

Accident Investigation Report for an eastbound Altamont Commuter Express (ACE) Passenger Train No. 10 (ACE Train No. 10), operated by Herzog Transit Services, Inc. (HTSI) on a single main track and operating cab car-forward with four additional passenger cars and a trailing locomotive, derailed the...

HQ-2015-1089 (Finalized)

On October 5, 2015, at 10:04 a.m., southbound Amtrak Passenger Train 55, operating on the New England Central Railroad (NECR), derailed at Milepost 65.2 on the single main track of NECR’s Roxbury Subdivision. The derailment occurred in the Town of Northfield, Washington County, Vermont. There were...

HQ-2014-13 (Finalized)

A northbound Arkansas and Missouri Railroad (AM) light locomotive, AM 50, traveling at a recorded speed of 25 mph, collided with a stopped AM Excursion Train on October 16, 2014, at 10:30 a.m., CDT. The collision occurred approximately 2 miles from Brentwood/West Fork, Washington County, Arkansas,...

HQ-2015-1005 (Finalized)

On January 27, 2015, at 2:17 a.m., EST, northbound CSX Transportation (CSX) Freight Train Q198-27 derailed after entering the Sandoz Spur and impacting a standing set of tank cars. Train Q198-27 was operating in track warrant control territory at the time of the accident at a recorded speed of 41...

HQ-2014-10 (Finalized)

On August 17, 2014, at 2:28 a.m., CST, southbound Union Pacific (UP) freight train, MASNL-16, traveling at a recorded 45 miles per hour, collided head-on with a northbound UP freight train, QNLPI-17, traveling at a recorded 31 miles per hour mph. The collision occurred at Milepost 228.6 on UP...