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HQ-2018-1298

On September 23, 2018, at 3:49 a.m., CST, southbound Union Pacific Railroad Company (UP) mixed freight train MVPNP-22 (Train 1), operating on Track Warrant Control (TWC) territory, derailed on the Little Floyd River Bridge. The incident occurred on the northeast edge of Alton, Iowa, city limits...

HQ-2019-1370

On November 8, 2019, at 2:17 p.m., EST, Norfolk Southern (NS) westward Train Z7XC107 (Train 1) struck the rear-end of stopped NS westward Train 21VC108 (Train 2) at Milepost (MP) PT 318.7 on Main Track 2 of NS’s Pittsburgh Subdivision near the rural community of Georges Station in...