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HQ-2013-08 (Finalized)

On April 6, 2013, at 1:35 a.m., on a clear night with the temperature at 38 degrees F, there was a head-on collision between two NJ Transit (NJT) trains in Hoboken Terminal, Hoboken, New Jersey. NJT Train X166, a non-revenue passenger train in “Push mode,” was returning from the fuel pad shoving...

HQ-2015-1095 (Finalized)

The crew for Train 580-747 consisted of a locomotive engineer and a conductor. They reported for duty on November 8, 2015, at 8:15 a.m., CST, to CP’s Yard Office in Portage, Wisconsin, to re-crew the unit Bakken crude oil train. The crew members received more than the statutory off-duty period...

HQ-2015-1080 (Finalized)

On July 25, 2015, at 8:53 p.m., CDT, a northbound Metra electric train stopped in the crossover at 51st Street, Milepost 6.20 on the Metra Electric District. The Engineer brought the train to a stop due to seeing a bright flash in his mirror. The flash was caused by a fallen catenary wire arcing...

HQ-2015-1041 (Finalized)

On April 28, 2015, at 6:24 a.m., MST, a southbound Southwestern Railroad (SW) freight train, MCLOCRL127A, struck a standing freight train (LSWC002127I) head-on in the Chisum Siding, at Milepost 118.3, on the Carlsbad Subdivision near Chisum, New Mexico. The standing train was an unattended local...

HQ-2015-1012 (Finalized)

On February 17, 2015, at 10:56 p.m., CDT, BNSF Railway (BNSF) Train C-BKMKEB0-05A derailed 33 loaded coal cars, Line Numbers 20 through 52 inclusive. This train consisted of 119 loaded coal cars, 16,898 trailing tons, was 6,465 feet in length, and was traveling eastward at a recorded speed of 35...

HQ-2015-1008 (Finalized)

On February 11, 2015, at 11:40 a.m., MST, 33 cars of an eastbound Union Pacific Railroad (UP) loaded coal train operating on Main Track Number 2 derailed. Train CATNW10, with 136 cars and 2 locomotives on the front and one distributed power unit (DP) on the rear, was operating in cab signal...

HQ-2014-1042 (Finalized)

At 9:37 a.m. CST, on December 13, 2014, Canadian National Railway (CN) A404-81-11, (A404), southbound train, loaded with 111 cars of mixed freight, passed a restricting signal at Milepost 0.5 Control Point (CP) Ruff and impacted the rear Distributive Power Unit (DPU) locomotive of CN U738-51-07 (...

HQ-2014-1032 (Finalized)

On November 27, 2014, at 2:31 a.m., CST, a northbound Union Pacific Railroad (UP) train, MNPVP, impacted the side of Car 55 of northbound Canadian Pacific Railway (CP) Train CP 470. The collision occurred in Skyline, Minnesota, at Milepost (MP) 88.2.

HQ-2014-1028 (Finalized)

On November 18, 2014, at approximately 4:36 p.m., EST, Amtrak Passenger Train Number 352 operating eastbound from Chicago, Illinois, to Battle Creek, Michigan, struck an occupied automobile on the 11th Street South public highway-rail grade crossing. The accident occurred in the Township of Oshtemo...