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A northbound Union Pacific Railroad (UP) freight train collided with an automobile traveling eastbound at a highway-rail grade crossing on October 12, 2014, at 1:35 a.m., CST. The accident occurred in White Castle, Louisiana, at UP Milepost 75.2, on the UP Livonia Subdivision. The motor vehicle...
On May 29, 2014, at 1:00 p.m., MST, a westbound WFA loaded coal train, WFA 603, operating on the Lee Ranch Subdivision, entered Ambrosia Siding via the east switch at MP 17.2 and struck unattended maintenance of way (MOW) equipment standing in the siding. The closest city to the accident site is...
On December 30, 2013, at 6:28 a.m., CST, a southbound Union Pacific (UP) freight train, MPBSR 30, traveling at a recorded 28 miles per hour, collided head-on with a standing northbound BNSF Railway (BNSF) freight train, E-MLMNAMO-16A. The collision occurred at Milepost (MP) 218.5 on UP’s Houston...
On October 23, 2013, at approximately 1:57 a.m., EDT, northeast bound CSX Transportation (CSX) Freight Train Q10622 collided with a motor vehicle that was on the tracks at Rio Grande Road, Milepost (MP) QS61.4. The accident occurred near Fontanet, Indiana, in Nevins Township on the St. Louis...
At approximately 1:51 a.m. PDT on August 19, 2013, a Union Pacific Railroad (UP) freight, grain shuttle train, GSGHCW-18, traveling northbound at a recorded speed of 46 mph on main line track, struck a motor vehicle at a private highway-rail grade crossing at E. Jefferson Avenue, DOT/AAR Inventory...
On May 17, 2013, at 6:08 p.m., EST, a Metro-North Railroad (MNCW) accident in Bridgeport, Connecticut, involved a derailment and near simultaneous collision with a train on an adjacent track. The derailment and collision resulted in personal injury, a small fire at an overhead catenary substation,...