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Accident Investigations

HQ-2020-1385

At approximately 10:59 p.m., EDT, on Monday, May 18, 2020, Buffalo & Pittsburgh Railroad, Inc. (BPRR) train SIBF, operating timetable northward on the BPRR Machias Subdivision main track, derailed at the north (bumper) end of the short spur (Fisher-Price siding) immediately adjacent to the...

HQ-2020-1399

On October 29, 2020, at approximately 7:25 a.m., CDT, a Kansas City Southern Railway Company (KCS) northbound (timetable direction) mixed freight train (MBMSH-29), handling 95 loads, 60 empties with 4 locomotives (configured 4 x 0) at an estimated speed of 39 mph derailed 25 (15 loaded and 10...

HQ-2019-1373

Accident Date: December 26, 2019 Accident Type: Derailment Railroad Name: Union Pacific Railroad Company Location: Medicine Bow, Wyoming Accident Number: HQ-2019-1373 Investigation Status: Finalized

HQ-2019-1327

On March 3, 2019, at 11:18 p.m., MST, eastbound Union Pacific Railroad Company (UP) coal train 2CBTWL9-03 (Train 1) derailed 35 cars on Main Track 2, at Milepost (MP) 76.45 on the North Platte Service Unit, South Morrill Subdivision, near Oshkosh, Nebraska. Train 1 had two locomotives on the...

HQ-2019-1371

On November 21, 2019, at about 11:15 a.m., EST, a westbound Norfolk Southern Corporation (NS) intermodal train 22AV121 (Train 1) struck an eastbound hi-rail dump truck, Roadway Maintenance Machine 310609, traveling on Main Track 1 at Milepost (MP) N250.3. The hi-rail dump truck was operating on...

HQ-2019-1363

On September 10, 2019, at approximately 12:30 p.m. CDT, Union Pacific Railroad Company (UP) Train YDU51-10 (Train 1), derailed 14 cars on the UP Mid-America Service Unit, Chester Subdivision, at Milepost (MP) 5.79 in the UP’s Dupo Yard, Dupo, Illinois.

HQ-2020-1377

On February 13, 2020, at 6:46 a.m., EST, a southbound CSX Transportation Company (CSX) loaded ethanol train K42911 (Train 1) derailed when it struck a mudslide at Milepost (MP) CMG 123.8 on the CSX Florence Division, Kingsport Subdivision, in Draffin, Kentucky.

HQ-2018-1298

On September 23, 2018, at 3:49 a.m., CST, southbound Union Pacific Railroad Company (UP) mixed freight train MVPNP-22 (Train 1), operating on Track Warrant Control (TWC) territory, derailed on the Little Floyd River Bridge. The incident occurred on the northeast edge of Alton, Iowa, city limits...