JOPLIN, Mont. (AP) — Federal officials sent a team of investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board to the site of an Amtrak derailment in north-central Montana that killed three people and left seven hospitalized Sunday. The westbound Empire Builder was en route to Seattle from Chicago, with two locomotives and 10 cars, when it…
Monroe County IL (KTRS) A farmer wrecked his tractor into a Union Pacific train in Monroe County Friday evening. Authorities say the farmer was out planting seeds by Fults Road and Bluff Road near Maeystown when he struck the train. The tractor was thrown into a field and the farmer was killed. Several surrounding firefighters…
By RALPH JENNINGS , Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Seventeen people were killed and at least 132 others injured on Sunday when one of Taiwan’s newer, faster trains derailed on a curve along a popular weekend route, officials said. The Puyuma express train was carrying more than 366 passengers from a suburb of Taipei…
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Seven empty train cars derailed on Union Pacific train tracks in south St. Louis. The derailment happened just south of Chouteau and Wharf around 6:30 a.m. Thursday. Union Pacific spokesman Jeff DeGraff says the cars that derailed off the terminal rail bridge were empty. DeGraff says damage occurred to the bridge…
By RACHEL LA CORTE, GILLIAN FLACCUS and MICHAEL SISAK, Associated Press DUPONT, Wash. (AP) — Federal officials confirmed an Amtrak train was hurtling 50 mph over the speed limit when it careened off an overpass south of Seattle, spilling cars onto the highway below and killing at least three people. Bella Dinh-Zarr, a National Transportation Safety…
Belleville, IL (KTRS) The cause of an overnight train derailment in Belleville is being investigated. Authorities say a coal train jumped the tracks around 2 a.m. Wednesday at the Norfolk Southern crossings, near Foley Drive and Frank Scott Parkway. Power lines were knocked down in the accident. This has left about five hundred residents and…
CIMARRON, Kan. (AP) – An Amtrak train derailed in southwest Kansas, sending eleven people to the hospital. An Amtrak statement says the train was traveling from Los Angeles to Chicago early Monday when it derailed just after midnight about 20 miles west of Dodge City. Kansas Highway Patrol communication specialist Patricia Munford says five train…
MOUNT CARBON, W.Va. (AP) – Fires burned for hours after a train carrying more than 100 tankers of crude oil derailed in a snowstorm in West Virginia, plunging at least one tanker into a river while sending a fireball skyward, authorities and residents say. Federal railroad and hazardous materials officials are probing Monday’s derailment. One…