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HQ-2013-22 (Finalized)

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...

HQ-2013-11 (Finalized)

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,...

Quiet Zone Locations

FRA regularly makes publically available a list of quiet zone locations by state, city, type of quiet zone, railroad, and related information.

Quiet Zone Locations

FRA regularly makes publically available a list of quiet zone locations by state, city, type of quiet zone, railroad, and related information.

Quiet Zone Locations

A list of quiet zone locations by state, city, type of quiet zone, railroad, and the relationship to the Train Horn Rule (either pre rule or new)

Side Impact Test and Analysis of a DOT-112 Tank Car

As part of a program to improve transportation safety for tank cars, Transportation Technology Center, Inc. (TTCI) has conducted a side impact test on a DOT-112 tank car to evaluate the performance of the DOT-112 under dynamic impact conditions and to provide data for the verification and...

HQ-2015-1086 (Finalized)

On September 19, 2015, at 6:18 am (CDT), an eastbound BNSF Railway (BNSF) Train G-MNXDPK7-17A, a loaded ethanol train, derailed seven cars at Milepost (MP) 596.7, on the Aberdeen Subdivision of BNSF’s Twin Cities Division near Lesterville, South Dakota (SD). Lesterville is 78 miles southwest of...