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Accident Investigations

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HQ-2014-2 (Finalized)

On April 6, 2014, at approximately 9:27 PM CDT, southbound UP freight train OWVBT-30 collided with the rear of stopped southbound UP intermodal train ZYCLD-05 at a recorded speed of 18 mph. The collision occurred at MP 151.2 on the UP DFW Service Unit Ennis Subdivision near Kosse, Texas.

HQ-2014-1 (Finalized)

On February 24, 2014, at 6:17 p.m., CST, Wisconsin Central Ltd. (WC) Train Number U78981-24, operating southbound on single main track, on WC’s Iron Range Subdivision, derailed two locomotives and 50 loaded taconite hopper cars at Milepost 32.7. The derailment occurred near Fairbanks, Minnesota, on...

HQ-2013-1050 (Finalized)

On November 7, 2013, at approximately 11:40 p.m., CST, southbound Alabama & Gulf Coast Railway (AGR) train, 501-07 (501), derailed 26 cars and one (1) locomotive near Milepost (MP) 683.0 on the AGR Magnolia Subdivision. The accident occurred near Aliceville, Alabama, in Pickens County, about 80...

HQ-2013-29 (Finalized)

On December 5, 2013, at 1:15 p.m., CST, Canadian National Railway (CN) Taconite Train U-78982-04 derailed the leading 76 cars of its train on the Iron Range Subdivision at Milepost 0.7, CN (U789), while operating southward and entering a yard track from the main track (other than main track...

HQ-2013-4 (Finalized)

On Monday, February 18, 2013, at 1:41 a.m., EST, an eastbound CSX loaded unit coal train, N735-16, operating from Grafton, West Virginia, to Cumberland, Maryland, derailed 73 cars of the train while operating on double track in traffic control system territory on CSX’s Huntington East Division,...

HQ-2014-1049 (Finalized)

On October 30, 2014, at 6:49 p.m., an eastbound CSX Transportation (CSX) freight train traveling on single main track, in train control system territory collided with an automobile at a highway-rail grade crossing. The accident occurred in Vandalia, Illinois, at Milepost (MP) Q172.3, on CSX’s St....

HQ-2015-1100 (Finalized)

On December 22, 2015, at 5:45 p.m., CST, an Amtrak (ATK) passenger train (two engines and seven cars) traveling timetable east (geographic east) collided with a northbound automobile that stopped on a public crossing, resulting in the death of five occupants of the automobile. The train crew did...

HQ-2015-1094 (Finalized)

On November 7, 2015, at 8:45 a.m., CST, eastbound BNSF Railway (BNSF) Mixed-Freight Train H-NTWKCK-9-06 derailed 25 cars while operating on BNSF’s Chicago Division, St. Croix Subdivision, on Main Track 1. The train consisted of 58 loaded cars, 54 empty cars, and weighed 9,726 tons. The train was 8,...

HQ-2015-1063 (Finalized)

On July 4, 2015, at 10:15 p.m., CST, a westbound Amtrak passenger train, AMT 01-03, in Harwood, Texas, in Gonzales County, collided with a northbound pick-up truck at the highway-rail grade crossing (at Milepost 144.31) on FM 794 (U.S. DOT Crossing Number 742684Y). AMT 01-03, with two locomotives...

HQ-2015-1062 (Finalized)

On Friday, July 3, 2015, at 7:45 a.m., CST, Kansas City Southern Railroad (KCS) southbound loaded rock train, OHTSM 03, operating with 2 head-end locomotives and 50 loaded rock cars, struck the rear of a standing manifest train, HKCSH-30, operating with one head-end locomotive and one rear-end...