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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...

HQ-2018-1277 (Finalized)

At 9:08 a.m., CDT, a southbound Canadian National Railway (CN) freight train Q-11651-10 (Train 1) traveling at 26 mph on a single main track struck southbound CN intermodal freight train Q-11851-10 (Train 2) traveling at 3 mph from behind. The collision caused the derailment of two locomotives and...

HQ-2018-1275 (Finalized)

At approximately 8:12 p.m., EDT, CSX Transportation (CSX) freight Train Q513-17, operating southbound on the CSX CE&D Subdivision, derailed 22 loaded and 1 empty mixed-freight and tank cars at Milepost (MP) 0ZA261.2. This derailment collided into 3 standing auto rack cars that were on the...