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Accident Investigations

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HQ-2013-28 (Finalized)

On December 1, 2013, at 7:19 a.m., EST, a southbound Metro-North Railroad (MNCW) passenger train, number 8808, derailed in Bronx, New York, on Main Track Number 2. The derailment resulted in four fatalities, multiple personal injuries, a fuel spill, equipment and track damage of $5,876,090, and...

HQ-2015-1016 (Finalized)

On February 24, 2015, a southbound Metrolink passenger train, operated by the Southern California Regional Rail Authority (SCAX), traveling at 65 miles per hour (mph) on single main track, collided with a motor vehicle abandoned on the railroad tracks near the city of Oxnard in Ventura County,...

HQ-2015-1082 (Finalized)

On August 7, 2015, at about 1:11 p.m., eastbound Norfolk Southern Railway (NS) Train 208G5-06 collided head-on with westbound NS Train G23G5-07. The accident occurred about 4.75 miles northwest of Riddleville, Georgia, and about 4.82 miles east of Tennille, Georgia, on single main track near...

HQ-2013-31 (Finalized)

On Monday, December 30, 2013, at 2:11 p.m., (CST), a westbound BNSF Railway (BNSF) grain train, G-RYLRGT9-26A, carrying soy beans, consisting of two head-end locomotives, one rear distributive locomotive power unit (DPU), and 112 cars derailed 13 loaded cars (consist positions 46 through 58) while...

HQ-2014-20 (Finalized)

On Tuesday, November 25, 2014, at approximately 2:05 a.m. PST, a westbound Union Pacific Railroad (UP) freight train GSG5TR-20 traveling at a recorded speed of 23 miles per hour (mph) derailed 12 hopper cars of feed corn at milepost (MP) 264.9 on single main track about 4 miles east of Belden,...

HQ-2014-15 (Finalized)

On Saturday, November 1, 2014, at 5:12 p.m. PST, an eastbound Union Pacific Railroad (UP) train AMLNGR-31(Train #1) collided with the rear end of a standing eastbound UP train ZLCAI-01 (Train #2) at milepost (MP) 727.6 on the Yuma Subdivision, Los Angeles Service Unit, near the town of Winterhaven...

HQ-2013-08 (Finalized)

On April 6, 2013, at 1:35 a.m., on a clear night with the temperature at 38 degrees F, there was a head-on collision between two NJ Transit (NJT) trains in Hoboken Terminal, Hoboken, New Jersey. NJT Train X166, a non-revenue passenger train in “Push mode,” was returning from the fuel pad shoving...

HQ-2015-1095 (Finalized)

The crew for Train 580-747 consisted of a locomotive engineer and a conductor. They reported for duty on November 8, 2015, at 8:15 a.m., CST, to CP’s Yard Office in Portage, Wisconsin, to re-crew the unit Bakken crude oil train. The crew members received more than the statutory off-duty period...

HQ-2015-1080 (Finalized)

On July 25, 2015, at 8:53 p.m., CDT, a northbound Metra electric train stopped in the crossover at 51st Street, Milepost 6.20 on the Metra Electric District. The Engineer brought the train to a stop due to seeing a bright flash in his mirror. The flash was caused by a fallen catenary wire arcing...

HQ-2015-1041 (Finalized)

On April 28, 2015, at 6:24 a.m., MST, a southbound Southwestern Railroad (SW) freight train, MCLOCRL127A, struck a standing freight train (LSWC002127I) head-on in the Chisum Siding, at Milepost 118.3, on the Carlsbad Subdivision near Chisum, New Mexico. The standing train was an unattended local...