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Accident Investigations

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HQ-2015-1070 (Finalized)

On Tuesday, July 14, 2015, at approximately 3:50 p.m., EDT, a westbound Norfolk Southern Railway (NS) Freight Train 27VV514 struck the rear of stopped NS Train 15TV513 at a recorded speed of 30 mph. The maximum authorized speed for this section track is 40 mph. The collision occurred on NS’...

HQ-2013-23 (Finalized)

On September 25, 2013, at 4:15 a.m. (CST), eastbound BNSF Railway (BNSF) freight train, BLACWSP1-23 (BLAC) struck the rear of BNSF standing freight train, SLHTLPC2-23 (SLHT). The accident occurred near St. Francis, TX, on BNSF’s Kansas Division, Panhandle Subdivision on Main Track 2, at Milepost...

HQ-2015-1003 (Finalized)

A westbound BNSF Railway (BNSF) freight train (B-UPIMAW5-03A) collided with a school bus on January 5, 2015, at approximately 3:35 p.m. CST. The accident occurred just east of Larimore, North Dakota, on the Devils Lake Subdivision, Twin Cities Division, at Milepost 23.5. Larimore is located about...

HQ-2015-1075 (Finalized)

(consist positions 79 through 100), at milepost 167.2 on the Glasgow Subdivision of the BNSF's Montana Division. Twenty cars derailed on their sides with one leaning against the signal case at milepost 167.24 and two cars derailed in an upright position. The derailment site is located approximately...

HQ-2015-1052 (Finalized)

On May 12, 2015, at 9:20 p.m., EST, eastbound Amtrak Regional Train Number 188, consisting of 1 head-end locomotive and 7 passenger cars with 258 persons onboard, traveling on the New York to Philadelphia Main Track Number 2, derailed in a 4-degree, left hand curve at Milepost 81.62. This...

(Pending)

At 12:15 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time on Friday, June 3, 2016, a Union Pacific train, ONETU 02, transporting Bakken crude oil for U.S. Oil & Refining Company and operating on Union Pacific’s Portland Subdivision derailed near the town of Mosier, Oregon (at milepost 69.02). A total of 16 tank cars...

2015 (Finalized)

On July 8, 2015, at approximately midnight an eastbound New York & Atlantic Railway (NYA) Train RS-30 struck a tractor-trailer at the Maspeth Avenue highway-rail grade crossing of the Lower Montauk Branch in Queens, New York. The collision caused the tractor-trailer to catch fire, destroying...

HQ-2015-1009 TECHNICAL REPORT (Finalized)

ACCIDENT TECHNICAL REPORT for Derailment of CSX Transportation, Inc.’s Unit Crude Oil Train K08014 Transporting Crude Oil for Plains All American, Mount Carbon, West Virginia