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Accident Investigations

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HQ-2018-1294 (Finalized)

On Wednesday, June 19, 2019, at approximately 9:49 a.m., PDT, westbound Union Pacific Railroad Company (UP) freight train MNPRV-17 (Train 1) derailed 27 cars at approximately Milepost (MP) 611.25 on UP's Lakeside Subdivision. The derailment occurred approximately 5 miles east of Wells, Nevada,...

HQ-2019-1359 (Finalized)

At approximately 3:21 p.m., CDT, a Union Pacific Railroad Company (UP) southbound freight train, MFWSA-19, with 129 loads, 19 empties and 5 locomotives, moving at a recorded speed of 48 mph, derailed 32 cars at Milepost (MP) 199.4.

HQ-2018-1288 (Finalized)

At 4:10 p.m., EDT, on Monday, July 30, 2018, a southbound CSX Transportation freight train Q19729 with two locomotives and 10 loaded intermodal cars, struck a private motor vehicle with four occupants at the highway-rail grade crossing at Buffington Road in College Park, Georgia. Three...

HQ-2019-1329 (Finalized)

On Saturday, March 30, 2019, at approximately 9:06 a.m., MDT, a westbound Union Pacific Railroad (UP) manifest train derailed 24 cars on UP’s Lynndyl Subdivision, Rocky Mountain Service Unit. This derailment occurred in a remote area of Juab County, Utah, approximately 20 miles east of Lynndyl,...

HQ-2018-1250 (Finalized)

On Sunday, February 4, 2018, at 2:27 a.m., EST, stationary CSX Transportation (CSX) freight train F77703 (Train 1) was struck by southbound National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak) passenger train P09103 (Train 2) in the Silica storage track at Milepost (MP) S 367.1. The accident occurred...

HQ-2018-1250 (Finalized)

On February 4, 2018, at 2:27 a.m., EST, CSX Transportation (CSX) freight train F77703 (Train 1) was struck head-on by southbound National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak) passenger train P09103 (Train 2) in the Silica side track at Milepost (MP) S 367.1. The accident occurred on the CSX...

HQ-2019-1312 (Finalized)

On January 6, 2019, at approximately 8:13 p.m., EST, an eastbound Norfolk Southern Railway Company (NS) freight Train 192G506 (Train 1) derailed at NS Milepost (MP) S112.7 on the NS Georgia Division, Savannah District in Bartow, Georgia.

HQ-2019-1323 (Finalized)

At 11:25 a.m., CST, BNSF Railway (BNSF) freight train C-BTMCOB0-13B (Train 1), derailed near Cloquet, Minnesota. The derailment occurred as Train 1 operated westbound on the Lakes Subdivision at Milepost (MP) 45.49. A total of 39 cars derailed, positions 14-52, all of which were loaded hoppers of...

HQ-2019-1318 (Finalized)

At 4:06 p.m., CST, a Union Pacific Railroad Company (UP) westbound mixed freight train MPBLF-24 (Train 1), with 2 engines and 54 cars, collided with a southbound Athens Independent School District school bus at a public highway-rail grade crossing (US DOT No. 790453V) resulting in the fatal injury...

HQ-2018-1293 (Finalized)

At 1:02 p.m., EDT, a Norfolk Southern Railway Company (NS) intermodal train 21QC105 (Train 1) derailed seven double-stack articulated intermodal cars with three wells each. Train 1 was traveling northbound in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on the NS Pittsburgh Division, Mon Line on Main Track 1 at 18...