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Accident Investigations

HQ-2020-1389

On Monday, July 6, 2020 at approximately 6:00 a.m., MDT, a BNSF freight train derailed 29 railcars on the Gallup Subdivision near Winslow, Arizona.  No injuries were reported.  There were no hazardous materials released.  The probable cause is cause code H519- Dynamic Brake, too...

HQ-2020-1390

On Wednesday, July 29, 2020, Union Pacific Railroad (UP) freight train MTUPX-29 (Train 1) was operating northbound (timetable westbound) on the single main track in Tempe, Arizona, on UP’s Phoenix Subdivision. At 6:06:22 a.m., Train 1 derailed 12 cars at the south end of the Tempe Town Lake...

HQ-2021-1473

On December 21, 2021, at approximately 7:18 p.m., CST, eastbound Kansas City Southern Railroad Company (KCS) Train M-SHAR-21 (Train 1) derailed in the Bovina community of Vicksburg, Mississippi. The derailment occurred on KCS’s Meridian Subdivision on single main track at Milepost (MP) 129.9,...

HQ-2021-1429

On May 27, 2021, at approximately 3:51 p.m., CDT, BNSF Railway (BNSF) unit sand train UCPFHGP0-05T (Train 1) with 3 locomotives (1 head end and 2 remote rear end), handling 130 loads, 0 empties, at 5,459 feet with 18,493 trailing tons was moving westbound[1] on the BNSF Chicago Division’s...

HQ-2021-1428

On May 24, 2021, at approximately 2:56 a.m., MDT, the Union Pacific Railroad (UP) intermodal train ZMQLC-23 (Train 1) handling 166 loads, 0 empties, at 9,895 feet and 6,766 trailing tons, derailed 38 intermodal cars while moving west (timetable direction) along the Lordsburg Subdivision at an...

HQ-2021-1430

On June 6, 2021, at approximately 10:45 a.m. CDT, Union Pacific Railroad (UP) grain train GSJO3D- 04 (Train 1), handling 107 loads, 0 empties at 6,494 feet and 15,278 tons, was traveling southbound on UP’s Austin Subdivision when 39 cars derailed at milepost (MP) 215.58 in San Marcos,...

HQ-2020-1403

On December 25, 2020, at approximately 6:37 a.m. CST, Union Pacific Railroad Company’s (UP) southbound mixed freight train MSSDM-24 with 3 conventionally configured locomotives handling 100 loads, 8 empties, at 7,408 feet in length and 13,050 tons derailed 24 cars (18 loads/ 6 empties) at...

HQ-2020-1401

On December 22, 2020, at 11:40 a.m. PST, a westbound BNSF Railway (BNSF) loaded crude oil train experienced a broken train collision, which resulted in the derailment of 10 loaded crude oil tank cars near Custer, Washington.

HQ-2019-1367

On October 4, 2019, at approximately 11:10 a.m. EST, northbound Norfolk Southern Railway Company (NS) freight Train 187A103 (Train 1) derailed at NS Milepost (MP) 146.7 H on the NS Georgia Division, Atlanta Terminal District in Atlanta, Georgia. The method of operation is Traffic Control (NS...

HQ-2020-1405

On December 30, 2020, at 4:55 p.m., EST, eastbound CSX hi-rail inspection truck was operating on the CSX Indianapolis Subdivision at Milepost (MP) BD 71.7, rear-ended a stopped train. The accident occurred in Connersville, Indiana, which is 54 miles east of Indianapolis, Indiana. The operator of...