List of American railroad accidents
railroad disasters in Wisconsindisasters | Wisconsin Historical Society
The worst 20th-century wreck involved a head-on crash between two interurban Milwaukee Rapid Transit and Steelrail Company trains near Milwaukee on September 2, ...
Freight Railroad Chronology - AAR
The last decade was the safest ever for U.S. railroads, with the 2023 hazmat accident rate the lowest ever. Freight rail is the most fuel-efficient way to move ...
'I Have Lost My Train in the River': Carnage on the CB&Q
“List of American Railroad Accidents,” 1900-1929. Wikipedia ... (Also see “List of Rail Accidents” at Wikipedia.) “National ...
Another Wreck on the New Haven: Accidents, Risk Perception, and ...
On the night of June 6, 1911, a rear collision and derailment near Fairfield, Connecticut, that ultimately involved four freight trains of the New York, New ...
Railroad injury: Causes, costs, and comparisons with other transport ...
Costs and consequences of U.S. roadway crashes. Accident Analysis and Prevention, 25 (5) (1993), pp. 593-607. View PDFView articleView in Scopus Google ...
America's Worst Toxic Train Disasters - Gizmodo
Here's a look back at some of the most serious environmental accidents due to train derailments in recent US history.
Ohio Train Wrecks - Ohio Memory
Considered the worst U.S. rail accident in history until the “Great Train Wreck of 1918” in Nashville, Tennessee, the Ashtabula wreck helped ...
Death Rode the Rails: American Railroad Accidents and Safety ...
For most of the 19th and much of the 20th centuries, railroads dominated American transportation. They transformed life and captured the ...
Big Boy 4005 Wreck - Forney Museum of Transportation
The Dispatcher would give me a list of crew names ... The Interstate Commerce Commission, Union Pacific Railroad, and local officials investigated the accident.
25 Worst Train Wrecks In History - List25
It remains the worst rail crash in United Kingdom's history in terms of death toll. ... Lists Going Viral Right Now.
How many train derailments have there been in the US in 2023?
The accident occurred shortly after 9pm on Friday 3 February, when 38 Norfolk Southern carriages crashed off the rails as the result of what investigators later ...
Freight railroads police themselves and inspect their own tracks ...
July marked the 10th anniversary of the Lac-Mégantic disaster, one of the deadliest train crashes in modern North American history. About 1:15 ...
Recent train derailments across the US - CBS News
According to the Federal Railroad Administration, in 2022 alone there were 518 derailments nationwide, causing five injuries, zero deaths and ...
Death Rode the Rails | Hopkins Press
Death Rode the Rails. American Railroad Accidents and Safety, 1828–1965. Mark ... List of Figures List of Tables Preface Introduction 1. In the Beginning ...
Most Dangerous Railroad Crossings - Injury Claim Coach
Between 2014 and 2018, there were over 10,700 highway-railroad crossing accidents across the U.S. Of these 10,700 incidents, over 1 in 4 railroad accidents ...
Railway Accidents - Canadian Transport Sourcebook
At least 52 were killed. At the time, this was the worst railway accident ever in North America. March 12, 1857, Hamilton, Canada West (Ontario) ...
Improving Safety, Accident Response, and Public Health in the ...
On February 3, a Norfolk Southern train carrying a variety of toxic chemicals—along with other freight—derailed in East Palestine, Ohio, ...
Deadly U.S. passenger train crashes in recent years - Reuters
May 2015: An Amtrak passenger train derailed in Philadelphia after entering a curve at 106 miles per hour (171 kph), more than twice the ...
Small town firefighters are unprepared for chemical spills in train ...
Firefighters are often "woefully under-equipped" to handle train accidents that emit hazardous materials. Most of those serious enough to ...
The Wrong Side of the Tracks - Notes From the Frontier
Train travel was quite safe in the first half century of the 1800s. Trains didn't go very fast and there weren't many miles of track laid down.