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Railroad Safety Strategy

Section 102 of the Rail Safety Improvement Act of 2008 (RSIA) directed the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) to develop a Railroad Safety Strategy and submit it at the same time as the President’s budget. FRA has incorporated this requirement with the fiscal year (FY) 2011 budget request to...

Mechanical Properties of Tank Car Steels Retired from the Fleet

The purpose of this program was to obtain samples of steel used for tank car shell and head fabrication in the current tank car fleet. Once obtained, the dynamic fracture toughness of a subset of material was determined as well as basic material characterization of all samples. The process of...

HQ-2016-1146 (Finalized)

On July 15, 2016, at 5:53 p.m., CST, a Union Pacific Railroad (UP) freight train with 2 engines and 93 cars traveling timetable south (geographical south) collided with a westbound automobile that drove across a private crossing, resulting in the death of all 4 occupants of the automobile. The...

HQ-2017-1184 (Finalized)

On February 3, 2017, at approximately 8:55 p.m., CST, southbound Union Pacific Railroad (UP) Coal Train CWTCL9-01, with 2 lead locomotives, 2 distributed power locomotives at the rear of the train, 133 loaded rail cars, and 0 empty rail cars, derailed 18 rail cars at Milepost 1.1 on UP’s Giddings...

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On December 1, 2013, at 7:19 a.m., EST, a southbound Metro-North Railroad (MNCW) passenger train, number 8808, derailed in Bronx, New York, on Main Track Number 2. The derailment resulted in four fatalities, multiple personal injuries, a fuel spill, equipment and track damage of $5,876,090, and...

HQ-2016-1123 (Finalized)

On Sunday, April 3, 2016, at 7:50 a.m., EDT, Amtrak southbound Train Number 89, consisting of one head-end locomotive, eight passenger coaches, one café car, and one baggage car, was operating on Main Track Number 3 at 106 mph when the Engineer noticed maintenance-of-way (MOW) employees and...

HQ-2016-1127 (Finalized)

On May 3, 2016, at approximately 10:15 p.m., CDT, northbound Norfolk Southern (NS) Train A38A7-03 collided with an eastbound vehicle (pickup truck) at the 15th Place SW public highway-rail grade crossing (DOT Crossing Number 728030G) in Birmingham, Alabama. 15th Place SW is located on NS’ AGS South...

HQ-2016-1118 (Finalized)

On Monday, March 14, 2016, at approximately 9:41 p.m., MDT, westbound Union Pacific Railroad (UP) inter-modal freight train, KG1LAC-13, consisting of three head-end locomotives, one rear-end locomotive distributive power unit (DPU), and 129 loaded cars consisting of a mixture of double stack single...

HQ-2015-1006 (Finalized)

On February 3, 2015, at 6:26 p.m., EST, in Valhalla, New York, northbound Metro-North Railroad (MNCW) Passenger Train Number 659 (the Train) consisting of eight electric-powered M-7 passenger cars struck a 2011 Mercedes Benz ML350 SUV (the SUV) at the Commerce Street Grade Crossing on MNCW’s Harlem...

HQ-2016-1117 (Finalized)

On March 14, 2016, at 12:02 a.m., CDT, an eastbound Amtrak passenger train, ATK 4, traveling on BNSF Railway’s (BNSF) La Junta Subdivision, derailed just west of BNSF Milepost 373. The town nearest to the accident was Cimarron, Kansas, located approximately 2 miles away. Cimarron is approximately...