Earth Changes and the Pole Shift
Train derailments
JUST IN - Massive fire erupts after train carrying ethanol derails in Tepetitlán, Mexico, November 1, 2025 VIDEO: https://t.me/ZetaTalk_Followers/78651 Planet X was described as affecting the Earth from afar, like tugging on the edge of a spider web where the effects are felt elsewhere on the web; in this way there has been an increase in earthquakes and unpredictable weather going back years, even before Planet X entered the solar system, due to the increased swirling of the Earth’s core. It is therefore logical that an increase in train derailments would accompany any increase in seismic activity – train tracks need to be straight and even the slightest shift to the side of a section of track would cause a train to derail. The area most affected by train derailments is the stretch zone. Stretch zone quakes are silent, and people are generally unaware anything is happening, although signs such as booms and trumpet sounds can occur. This zone stretches from Western Europe across the Eurasian Plate, and also includes the South-East United States, the St. Lawrence Seaway, the Red Sea and the African Rift. In other parts of the world, shifting ground is more associated with earthquakes that people are aware of, such as the Pacific which is compressing, so authorities inspect railway tracks after any seismic activity, reducing the likelihood of accidents. |
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http://www.dentonrc.com/local-news/local-news-headlines/20121213-tr...
Train derails near Krum
No injuries reported; investigation under way
By Peggy Heinkel-Wolfe / Staff Writer
Published: 13 December 2012 03:21 PM
One crew offloaded boxes of M&M’s candies as another crew began clearing the track after the last two cars of a southbound BNSF Railway train derailed north of Krum at about 1:15 p.m. Thursday.
Krum firefighters responded to reports that refrigerant may have been leaking from one of the cars. No injuries were reported.
Firefighters found no spill or other hazardous materials, according to Capt. Brad Sebastian.
From the scene, it appeared that a worker may have thrown a switch early where the tracks go from one line to two, Sebastian said.
“The last two cars went to the left side while the rest of the train was on the right side,” Sebastian said. “It [the train] carried them slowly down the line until the curve and then it yanked right off.”
One car was overturned. The other car, while derailed, was still upright when firefighters arrived, he said.
Joe Faust, spokesman for BNSF, said the cause of the accident remains under investigation. The company had a team on scene to assess the situation.
“We don’t have an estimated time when the track will be reopened,” Faust said.
The company was already working on a plan to reroute some of its train traffic that would be affected by the line’s closure.
This is the second time this year a train has derailed near Krum.
On July 22, seven cars of a 37-car freight train heading southbound from Tulsa, Okla., to Fort Worth derailed near Krum Jackson Cemetery. That derailment damaged trees, but no injuries were reported.
Those cars were carrying sand.
Dec 14, 2012
Alice M. Haney
Hi Folks,
I used to live just noth of there and was interested to note the earthquake on:
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Quakes/quakes_al...
It is my opinion the tracks moved during the quake.
NORTHERN TEXAs
Dec 14, 2012
Starr DiGiacomo
Mudslide derails train south of Everett
The slide came off a large slope and hit 66-car train at about 1:30 p.m., BNSF Spokesperson Gus Melonas said. The slide was at least 75-feet long and forced 11 cars on their side. Some of the cars split open on impact, Melonas said.
Officials said it was the same area of track where a slide closed routes earlier in the day. The trains carried many different types of items, Melonas said, including disinfectant chemicals. A Haz-Mat team responded to the incident, but discovered no threat to public health.
Melonas said the tracks will remain closed for freight through a good portion of the week. Amtrak and Sound Transit Sounder trains will not run until late Wednesday at the earliest.
BNSF operates more than 1,000 feight trains every day on more than 32,000 miles of track across the United States.
http://q13fox.com/2012/12/17/mudslide-derails-train-south-of-everett/
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Dec 18, 2012
Starr DiGiacomo
http://www.wsiltv.com/news/local/Mt-Vernon-Train-Derailment-1852149...
Mt. Vernon Train Derailment
By WSIL Manager
Story Created: Dec 30, 2012 at 10:46 AM CST
Mt. Vernon Police Chief Chris Mendenhall says the train derailment happened after 6:00am near Rackaway Street and Liberty Road in Mt. Vernon.
Mt. Vernon Fire was called to the scene, and has a hazmat team on the scene.
Chief Mendenhall says 8 cars were involved in the derailment, and at least one of them is believed to be carrying ethanol.
Streets in that area have been closed off, but no one in that area has been evacuated.
Mt. Vernon Fire officials were not immediately available for comment.
Dec 30, 2012
Starr DiGiacomo
http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/01/03/bc-train-derailment-2013/
Sea-to-Sky Highway closed after train derails new Whistler
PEMBERTON, B.C. — The Sea-to-Sky Highway between Whistler, B.C., and Pemberton was blocked for a time on Thursday by a derailment that sent one rail car tumbling off an overpass onto the road below.
The RCMP say a vehicle on the highway suffered some minor damage from flying debris but no one was hurt.
Sgt. Steve LeClair says three empty cars of a northbound CN Rail train went off the tracks about 10 kilometres south of Pemberton, with one falling from the railway overpass onto the highway.
The road was closed in both directions for a while before being opened to single lane, alternating traffic — a situation that will remain until the derailed cars can be removed.
The cause of the derailment is under investigation.
Jan 4, 2013
Starr DiGiacomo
http://www.titusvilleherald.com/articles/2013/01/04/news/doc50e78ce...
Train Derailment Near Crawford County Leaves 5 Cars Off Track
JANUARY 4, 2013-
A train derailment sends emergency crews from Crawford and Mercer Counties into action...
The derailment happened just after 4:30 this afternoon on the Western New York and Pennsylvania railroad tracks near the town of Carlton, south of Cochranton....
That's close to the Crawford - MercerCounty line.
According to the Crawford County Emergency Management Agency ... Five train cars left the track...
One of the cars was hauling isobutylene, a highly flammable gas.
The other 4 cars were hauling non-hazardous materials.
There was no release or spill from any of the cars and no injuries.
http://meadvilletribune.com/archive/x964864997/Local-units-respond-...
anuary 4, 2013
Local units respond to hazardous spill at train derailment
Meadville Tribune
MERCER COUNTY — At least three Crawford County emergency response units have been called to a Mercer County train derailment to help deal with a potentially hazardous spill.
Five cars of a Western New York & Pennsylvania freight train just south of the Crawford County line about 4:30 p.m., one mile north of Mercer County’s New Lebanon rail crossing. Four of the cars were said to contain non-hazardous plastics. However, one is said to contain isobutylene, an extremely flammable substance easily ignited by heat, sparks or flames capable of forming explosive mixtures with air. Vapors are initially heavier than air and spread along the ground, causing dizziness or asphyxiation without warning.
Crawford County Hazmat and Cochranton and West Mead 2 volunteer fire departments were dispatched to the scene, and members of Crawford County Office of Emergency Services were also en route.
Jan 5, 2013
Starr DiGiacomo
http://www.rgj.com/article/20130105/NEWS/130105001/20-cars-Union-Pa...
20 cars of Union Pacific grain train headed to Roseville derail near Sulfur; no injuries
6:09 p.m. update:
Twenty cars of a Union Pacific grain train derailed near Sulfur, Nev., on Saturday afternoon, a company spokesman said.
The derailment of the westbound, 105-car train occurred shortly after 3 p.m. about 45-50 miles west of Winnemucca, Union Pacific West region spokesman Aaron Hunt said.
The train was heading to Roseville, Calif., but where it originated and what company it was hauling grain for was unknown, Hunt said shortly before 6 p.m.
There were no injuries, Hunt said.
Hunt said that the cause of the derailment was unknown. Crews were on their way to the scene, which he said happened in a “fairly remote area.”
The train was carrying grain, he said, but the extent of any spillage was unknown. Cars can derail upright and avoid a major loss of cargo, he said.
Traffic was being rerouted on another line through Nevada, and no trains were being held up because of the derailment.
Asked about the number of cars sent off the track in a typical derailment, Hunt said the total “varies a lot,” but Union Pacific had been working to reduce derailments in general and last year spent $3.6 billion on its infrastructure, mostly on track projects.
“Our numbers have really improved,” he said. Reportable derailment rates have dropped 32 percent since 2001, he wrote in a later email.
4:51 p.m. update:
Scanner traffic indicates that about 20 train cars on the Union Pacific railroad derailed near the Humboldt-Pershing county line. However, no injuries or fires occurred.
Jan 6, 2013
Starr DiGiacomo
Train derails near Bainbridge, nobody hurt
Published 8:46am Monday, January 7, 2013
Decatur County Sheriff Wiley Griffin said that a train derailed late Sunday evening in the county, but nobody was injured, no cargo was lost, and no considerable damage was done.
Griffin said that about half the cars in a 50-car train left the track Sunday at approximately 10 p.m., about half a mile from the intersection of Dothan Road and Cooler Road. Griffin said the cars were mostly empty flatbeds, were not carrying any freight, and nobody was injured.
The train, which is owned and operated by CSX Transportation, was still being removed from the tracks Monday morning, Griffin said. He said the derailed cars could be completely removed by midnight Monday.
Jan 7, 2013
Starr DiGiacomo
China train 'derails in test run, one dead'
http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/asia/329861/china-train-derails-in-...
A subway train derailed Tuesday in a test run on a new line in southwestern China, killing one driver and injuring another, state media reported.
Two women walk down the platform after alighting from a subway train in Shanghai on June 27, 2012. A subway train has derailed in a test run on a new line in the southwestern Chinese city of Kunming, killing one driver and injuring another, according to state media.
The first carriage of the train ran off the tracks in the city of Kunming in Yunnan province at 9:09 am (0109 GMT), the China News Service said. There were no passengers on board.
One driver was struck by falling heating equipment in the driver's cabin and died, while another was slightly injured and taken to hospital, the report said, citing the subway's operator, state-owned Kunming Rail Transit Co.
The city government was investigating the cause of the accident, it added.
Chinese authorities have long been accused of compromising safety in their rush to develop the country's vast transport network.
Two metro trains in Shanghai collided in September 2011, injuring 284 people, just months after a deadly high-speed rail crash in the eastern city of Wenzhou killed at least 40 in China's
Jan 8, 2013
Starr DiGiacomo
http://www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/gauteng/eight-injured-on-sow...
Eight injured on Soweto train
January 8 2013 at 06:32pm
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Eight people received medical treatment after a train derailed in Soweto on Tuesday, but there were conflicting reports about what had happened to them.
While Johannesburg emergency services said they were treated for injuries sustained when they jumped from the train, Metrorail said they were treated for shock.
The train derailed between the New Canada and Crown Mines railway stations on Tuesday afternoon.
Johannesburg emergency services spokesman Robert Mulaudzi said the eight passengers jumped off the train when they saw smoke and thought it was on fire.
He said one person was critically injured and seven sustained minor knee injuries. They were treated at the scene before being taken to Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital.
However, Metrorail provincial manager Thembela Khulu said no one had jumped from the train and that the passengers had been “treated for shock”.
“... There are no physical injuries,” she said.
Khulu said the smoke seen by passengers was from a grass-fire alongside the railway tracks.
She said the cause of the derailment was not yet known. “We don't know at the present moment. Technicians are on the site as we speak. It is not something major.” - Sapa
Jan 8, 2013
Starr DiGiacomo
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=1...
Freight train derails in Auckland
A freight train has derailed near Mauku, southwest of Auckland.
The accident happened early today on the Glenbrook Steel Mill access line, KiwiRail spokeswoman Kimberley Brady said.
Because the train derailed on a branch line, it wouldn't cause any delays to normal services, Ms Brady said.
There were no injuries, she said.
The cause of the accident was not yet known and KiwiRail was waiting on inspection feedback before they could start to remove the freight cars.
"We don't know how long it will take at this stage but we're in the process of investigating the derailment then they'll start clearing the site and then repair the track," Ms Brady said.
Jan 9, 2013
Starr DiGiacomo
http://world.time.com/2013/01/10/2-trains-collide-in-switzerland-in...
2 Trains Collide in Switzerland, 17 Injured
(GENEVA) — Two passenger trains collided Thursday morning near a station in northern Switzerland, injuring 17 people, police said.
The accident near Neuhausen station occurred shortly after 7.30 a.m. (0630 GMT), said Patrick Caprez, a spokesman for police in Schaffhausen canton (state). Nine of the injured people were taken to nearby hospitals; Caprez didn’t have details on the injuries but said none of their lives were believed to be in danger.
It wasn’t immediately clear what caused the collision.
A locomotive for one of the trains — a double-decker passenger train — derailed.
Rail traffic in two directions from Schaffhausen, a town on Switzerland’s northern border with Germany, was interrupted and buses were being used instead.
Jan 10, 2013
Starr DiGiacomo
http://www.ksdk.com/news/article/356643/3/Imperial-train-derailment...
Imperial train derailment; houses evacuated
4:57 PM, Jan 11, 2013
IMPERIAL, Mo. (KSDK) - Nearly 20 homes in an Imperial neighborhood had to be evacuated Friday afternoon following a train derailment.
Eight train cars derailed from a southbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe train. The derailment happened around 2:30 p.m. just south of Imperial, MO on Main Street.
The homes evacuated were located on Church Hill Court.
Authorities at the scene said the cars were empty, but the home evacuations were done as a precautionary measure because of the possibility residual hazardous materials leaking out.
Two of the cars were identified as having hazardous chemicals within: potassium hydroxide and ethyl glycol, respectively. Ethyl glycol is commonly used as an automotive antifreeze. In its pure form, it is odorless and colorless. It can be fatal if ingested. Potassium hydroxide is a caustic material used in industrial processes, such as drain cleaners and leather tanning chemicals.
The train company has dispatched a HAZMAT team to work with local authorities in clearing the area.
Residents were allowed to return to their homes before 5 p.m., but instructed to stay away from the train tracks.
Jan 12, 2013
Starr DiGiacomo
http://en.ria.ru/russia/20130112/178728604/Two_Die_in_Trans-Siberia...
Russia
Two Die in Trans-Siberian Train Crash
Two Die in Trans-Siberian Train Crash
© Photo local Emergencies MinistryIRKUTSK/MOSCOW, January 12 (RIA Novosti) - Two train drivers were killed in Russia's Irkutsk region on Saturday when their train carrying coal was derailed, the local Emergencies Ministry said.
"According to initial information, the locomotive crew of two have been killed - the driver and his assistant," the Ministry said.
Russian Railways confirmed the deaths of two locomotive crew.
At least 20 of the train's 60 wagons left the tracks, after the train collided with a single locomotive on the Utulik-Slyudyanka section of the Trans-Siberian line at 05.10 a.m. Moscow time.
Emergency workers are at the scene.
Rail movements in both directions have been stopped as a result of the crash, and power lines have been brought down.
A passenger train travelling from Novosibirsk to Vladivostok has been delayed due to the accident, and "food and hot water have been supplied to it," local Emergencies Ministry staff said.
Jan 12, 2013
Starr DiGiacomo
Military train derails in Egypt, killing 15
A military train derailed in Egypt on Tuesday, killing at least 15 people and injuring 103 others, a spokesman from the health ministry said in a statement to MENA.
The train carrying young recruits was traveling from south Egypt to Cairo and derailed in the Giza neighborhood of Badrashin.
The injured had been sent to hospitals for treatment, the health ministry said in the statement.
Jan 15, 2013
Starr DiGiacomo
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-01-18/freight-train-derailment-unde...
Freight train derailment under investigation
Updated Fri Jan 18, 2013 6:39pm AEDT
The Australian Transport Safety Bureau is investigating the cause of a freight train derailment in north-eastern South Australia on Thursday.
The derailment at Yunta, about 200 kilometres south-west of Broken Hill, has forced the closure of the track and trains travelling between Sydney and Adelaide are being diverted through Melbourne until early next week.
The train was en route from Perth to Sydney when ten wagons came off the track.
The derailment sparked a small fire which was contained by the Country Fire Service.
The Australian Rail Track Corporation says about 300 metres of track have been damaged.
The bureau's general manager of surface safety investigations, Peter Foley, says it will take about a month to work out what caused the accident.
"We look at the site. We download the data recorders from the locomotive and that tells us what speed the train's been doing, what the power settings were on the locomotive, what the brake settings were, et cetera," he said.
"We talk to the witnesses that are involved. In this case it'll be the train driver obviously.
"We ascertain which was the first wagon to derail, we look at potential mechanisms for that derailment, whether it might have been something on the wagon, or it might have been something in relation to the track and we go through a process whereby we eliminate the possibilities."
Jan 18, 2013
Starr DiGiacomo
http://www.auburnjournal.com/article/update-545-pm-train-derailment...
UPDATE 5:45 P.M.: Train derailment in Colfax causes evacuations
By: Katie Sanders, Special to Gold Country News Service
UPDATE 5:45 P.M.: COLFAX -- A train derailment in Colfax caused the evacuation of residents and businesses within 500 feet of the wreck late Sunday morning.
A double stacked freight carrier derailed just in front of the US Bank on Grass Valley and Main streets at around 11 a.m. Sunday. The train was traveling from Chicago to Oakland when five of the 139 cars were derailed....
Jan 21, 2013
Starr DiGiacomo
Train derails and catches fire in Manchester
An empty train has derailed and caught fire on Windsor bridge in Manchester city centre.
4:45PM GMT 23 Jan 2013
A train has come off the rails and caught fire. No passengers were on the train at the time and there are no reports of any injuries in the incident outside Manchester city centre.
Fire crews were first called to the incident near Wilburn Street in Salford at 2.37pm today.
The train is understood to have come off the tracks on the approach to Manchester city centre.
Four fire crews are now in attendance.
A British Transport Police (BTP) spokesman said: "BTP officers were called to the rail line close to Wilburn Street, Salford, following a report of a train carriage on fire.
Jan 23, 2013
Starr DiGiacomo
Singapore-bound train derails in Malaysia, 5 injured
7:42 PM
JOHOR BARU: A Singapore-bound train derailed and landed on its side, trapping the driver and injuring about five passengers just before the Kempas train station here today, the New Straits Times reported.
The KL Ekspres train left the Kulaijaya train station and was scheduled to reach the next station in Kempas at 3.30pm when the train derailed ten minutes before reaching the station.
Fire and Rescue Services Department assistant director Mohd Rizal Buang said the captain, who is in his 50s, sustained leg injuries and was trapped in the wreckage.
He said about five passengers suffered minor injuries
Additional link with photo.
http://www.straitstimes.com/breaking-news/se-asia/story/singapore-b...
Jan 27, 2013
Starr DiGiacomo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiPBszdSZM4
Mumbai train derailment, Jan 28 2013
Jan 29, 2013
Starr DiGiacomo
http://www.kfvs12.com/story/20810263/crews-working-to-clean-up-trai...
SCOTT COUNTY, MO (KFVS) -
High winds topple 48 train cars in Scott County
Posted: Jan 30, 2013 7:20 AM AST
High winds are suspected in causing four dozen train cars that overturned in Scott County near Rockview Tuesday night.
Mark Davis with Union Pacific Railroad says 48 cars derailed around 9:20 p.m. near Hwy. M. He says the preliminary cause is high winds.
Davis says the train was headed from Chicago to Mexico with three locomotives and 112 cars. It was carrying auto parts.
No one was injured.
About 800 feet of track will have to be replaced.
Railroad crews are working to get the double stacked shipping containers back on the track.
MoDOT workers are also on the scene to investigate the derailment.
Missouri Department of Transportation is checking a bridge near the area for any damage.
Jan 30, 2013
Starr DiGiacomo
http://www.caerphillyobserver.co.uk/news/791371/train-derails-after...
Train derails near Bargoed after hitting landslip caused by flooding and snow thaw
Published in News on Wednesday January 30th, 2013
A train carrying eight passengers and two staff was derailed between Brithdir and Bargoed because of a landslip due to flooding and thawing snow, according to Network Rail.
The 6.10am Rhymney to Barry Island service, the first of the day, was derailed just before 6.30am.
The Network Rail spokesman said: “At 6.28am the driver of the 6.10am Rhymney to Barry Island service, formed by a two-car unit, reported that the train had struck a landslide, with fallen trees therein, and become derailed by the leading bogie.
“The accident occurred on the single line at a location about 700 yards on the northern approach to Bargoed from Brithdir.”
There were three reported injuries. Two people sustained bumps to the head and one person suffered shock. All injured persons were treated on the scene by ambulance crews and released.
Jan 31, 2013
Starr DiGiacomo
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/people-injured-after-tr...
Commuters injured after train derails at Brisbane railway station
Thirteen passengers, a driver and a guard were on board when the train's front carriage crashed onto the platform and into the toilets about 9.40am (10.40am AEDT).
Fourteen people were injured, including 10 rushed to hospital.
Live powerlines came down on the middle of the train, but the passengers managed to exit from the rear with only minor injuries.
The men's toilets were all but destroyed.
One woman was trapped inside the women's toilets, which partly imploded from the impact.
Mikayla Gede heard the crash from outside the station and raced inside with her friend Emily Benson. They heard a woman trapped inside the toilets crying for help.
Mikayla, 17, and her friend called the ambulance and pulled at the door to rescue her."We wrenched the door open," she said.
"The woman got out and said she was okay.
"It was really smashed up in there. The wall had come down in the shape of the front of a train, and it had gone through the male bathroom and into the female."
Ms Benson said she had been about to catch a train on her way to a TAFE college.
"If I had gone 10 minutes earlier I could have been on the platform and died," she said.
Acting Cleveland Fire Station officer Rob Hawxwell was one of the first at the scene about 9.45am (AEST) in the bayside suburb.
"(It has) caused a lot of carnage and damage," he said. "The passengers were very lucky."
Halfway through the search Mr Hawxwell learned his son had been about to go into the station toilets when the train hit.
"My son heard a loud bang and then got out of the station pretty quickly," Mr Hawxwell said. "It wasn't a good message to get."
The passengers were treated at the scene, with 10 taken to hospital as a precaution before being released.
Mr Hawxwell said Queensland Rail would determine whether an electrical fault led to the crash.
The corrugated iron roof of the station building, which was completed only six months ago, was torn to shreds by the impact.
Redlands Mayor Karen Williams said the driver was "in shock''.
"We're very fortunate there haven't been serious injuries,’' she told ABC Radio.
''(It must have been) a very scary event for most of the people on the train.''
Peter Stevens, who lives near the station, said it sounded "like a car smashing into a brick wall".
"It's not something you see every day. It's quiet old Cleveland, on one of the quietest days of the week," he told AAP Superintendent Jim Keogh said the train was approaching the station from the city when it derailed.
The police forensic crash unit is investigating.
Queensland Rail spokeswoman Neva Woolmer said: "We believe there are no serious injuries; however emergency services and Queensland Rail staff are on site."
"The Rail Safety Regulator has been informed.''
Jan 31, 2013
Starr DiGiacomo
http://www.dailystatesman.com/story/1936851.html
Tuesday storm derails train near Chaffee
Thursday, January 31, 2013
ROCKVIEW, Mo. -- High winds and heavy downpours that swept across the area Tuesday night are reported to have damaged property, blown two tractor-trailers over and caused several Union Pacific rail cars to derail near Chaffee.
No local fatalities were reported.
Trooper Clark Parrott, spokesman for the Missouri State Highway Patrol, attributes that to people being warned in advance of the approaching storm.
"There were weather warnings issued almost all day before the storm arrived in the area," Parrott said. "I think a lot of people heeded those warnings and stayed inside. Otherwise, there may have been more serious injuries for us to report."
Robert E. Wyatt of Dexter, Mo., received moderate injuries when wind blew his tractor-trailer off Highway 25 about one mile north of Delta. Parrott said another driver was uninjured when his tractor-trailer overturned on Highway 25 south of Bernie, Mo.
There were no injuries involved in the derailment of Union Pacific rail cars in Rockview, Mo., in Scott County north of Chaffee, Mo. Nearly 50 rail cars were overturned by the winds, and approximately 800 feet of damaged track will need to be repaired or replaced. Mark Davis, a spokesman for Union Pacific, confirmed Wednesday that the railroad company's preliminary report on the incident will blame winds for the derailment.
The cars were carrying auto parts. Davis said the engineer was slowing the train after hearing tornado warning reports from a dispatcher, and the emergency brakes were engaged.
Weather might have contributed to an accident that shut down northbound Interstate 55 at Cape Girardeau when a tractor-trailer jackknifed and was hit by a car driven by Cape Girardeau County Judge Scott Lipke, but a police accident report wasn't complete Wednesday.
The National Weather Service stayed busy Tuesday night, gathering information and issuing weather reports that at times included threats of tornadoes.
"There were straight-line winds generated by the storm that blew between 60 to 70 miles per hour," said Christine Wielgos, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Paducah, Ky. "There were reports of funnel clouds in Southeast Missouri, but right now we have no confirmation of there being any actual tornadoes."
Wielgos added that, to be sure, the National Weather Service had sent damage-assessment teams to hard-hit locations in Illinois and Kentucky to investigate if tornadoes had touched down.
Cape Girardeau County Emergency Management reported roofs of many homes in the county lost shingles and barns collapsed in rural areas. Trees also were downed across the area, and many Ameren customers lost power Tuesday night.
The storm's strength was evident in Delta, where the wind blew strips of metal and lumber from the roof of Delta One Stop, a grocery and general merchandise store, onto State Street and even into a nearby house.
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Jan 31, 2013
Starr DiGiacomo
http://kiwaradio.com/local-news/train-derails-at-ritter/
Train Derails At Ritter
Date posted - January 31, 2013
Reports from the scene indicate the derailment involves 16 empty grain cars.
We have also been told the train is blocking the crossing at B14 — the Matlock blacktop, however Northwest Boulevard — Old Highway 60 — is open.
According to the engineer, the train derailed due to a broken rail.
Feb 1, 2013
Howard
Toxic Train Derailment Evacuates Hundreds in North Carolina Town (Feb 2)
The town of Bladenboro is currently being evacuated following a train derailment. Officials said 10 of the 105 cars overturned and one was full of ammonia.
Emergency personnel say the derailment happened around 3:30 p.m. in the town south of Fayetteville.
The train belongs to CSX. The transportation company is handling the draining of ammonia so that people can get back into their homes. At 9:45 p.m., the long process had not yet started.
Because moving the cars may be time consuming and hazardous, up to 400 nearby residents were forced to evacuate. All residents from Seaboard Street to Village Street were included in the evacuation.
Those that did not stay with nearby family are staying at an emergency shelter at Bladenboro Middle School. Officials said there are more than 30 people staying at the school Saturday night.
"We don't have a car we called the cops and told them and they sent an ambulance out there they picked us up and brought us here," said evacuee Rafael Masso
Another evacuee told ABC11 her husband heard a loud sound about the same time the train derailed. About an hour later, a police officer was at their door.
"He came and knocked on the door and then he had a bullhorn outside saying we had to evacuate," said evacuee Filicia Lilley McKee.
Sources
http://abclocal.go.com/wtvd/story?section=news/local&id=8978520
http://www.robesonian.com/view/full_story/21597956/article-Bladenbo...
Feb 3, 2013
Starr DiGiacomo
http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=news/local&id=8979101
Freight train derails in Chicago, IL
February 2, 2013 (BELLWOOD, Ill.) (WLS) -- Hazmat crews were on the scene where a freight train derailed in Bellwood just before noon on Sunday.
Five freight cars toppled over when the train was being pulled out of the yard.
Several of the cars are reported to be leaking diesel fuel.
No one was injured in the derailment.
Metra trains were briefly delayed just after the incident, but were back to normal a short time later.
Feb 4, 2013
Starr DiGiacomo
http://lagunaniguel-danapoint.patch.com/articles/amtrak-train-derai...
Amtrak Train Derails Causing Local Delays
The train that runs from San Diego to Oakland with a stop in Laguna Niguel, derailed near Union Station today.
The Amtrak train line that serves Laguna Niguel bteween San Diego and Oakland derailed near Los Angeles Union Station today, not hurting anybody but delaying passenger trains.
The northbound Coast Starlight train was reportedly "empty" when it jumped the tracks, according to a brief statement from Amtrak.
Notice of the derailment was given by Amtrak to Metrolink at 10:38 a.m., but the exact time of the mishap was not released by Amtrak.
Tracks in that area are owned and operated by Metrolink, the local commuter rail agency that shares tracks with Amtrak on the Los Angeles-San Diego rail corridor.
Metrolink spokeswoman Delana Gbenekama said the mishap was one quarter mile southeast of Union Station. Two Metrolink trains from Los Angeles to Oceanside were delayed up to one hour as southbound trains waited to use northbound tracks through the Amtrak switching yard on the bank of the Los Angeles River.
The northbound Amtrak train to Oakland and Seattle was scheduled to depart Union Station at 10:26 a.m. and was running nearly two hours late today, according to Amtrak.
Los Angeles firefighters were not called to the scene, a spokeswoman said.
Feb 4, 2013
Starr DiGiacomo
41 coal cars jump tracks near Fairbury
The Union Pacific Railroad is cleaning up approximately 40 train cars that derailed early Sunday morning southeast of Fairbury.
A Union Pacific spokesman and Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office said that at approximately 1 am Sunday, 41 coal cars on an eastbound train to St Louis, Mo jumped the tracks near the Fairbury Farmstead. The train was carrying 142 cars total. No one was injured in the incident.
Law enforcement provided traffic control for a time after the crash but as of Sunday afternoon the scene had been turned over to Union Pacific engineers who worked with heavy machinery to clean up the crash. The cause for the derailment is still under investigation. It is not clear how long cleanup will take or what the estimated damage is from the crash.
http://www.coalguru.com/north_america/41_coal_cars_jump_tracks_near...
Feb 4, 2013
Starr DiGiacomo
http://www.mlive.com/news/saginaw/index.ssf/2013/02/train_derailmen...
Train derailment in Saginaw Township spills 5 cars of grain
February 11, 2013 at 11:36 AM, updated February 11, 2013 at 11:37 AM
SAGINAW TOWNSHIP, MI — A train derailment near South Center and Clunie has scattered grain along the side of train tracks in Saginaw Township.
About 1:30 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 9, five cars attached to a train owned by Saginaw-based Lake State Railway derailed, spilling grain which was being hauled from the Hemlock area toward Saginaw.
According to Ed Wilson, Lake State's superintendent of transportation, it will take a contractor multiple days to clear the scene.
Lake State has not yet determined the cause for the derailment, which has not blocked any roadways.
Feb 12, 2013
Starr DiGiacomo
http://www.wlox.com/story/21308217/canadian-national-railway-train-...
JACKSON, MS (Mississippi News Now) -
Eighteen Canadian National Railway train cars derailed off of the tracks in Jackson Friday morning, calling for heavy equipment crews to help clear the scene. The derailment occurred around 6:48 AM near McDowell Road, in south Jackson.
Canadian National Spokesman Patrick Waldron says 17 of the derailed cars were filled with grain and the other was empty.
Waldron says no one was injured, but the tracks between Jackson and New Orleans would probably be closed most of the day while crews worked to clear the derailed cars.
That means a delay for the Amtrak's "City of New Orleans" which was scheduled to use that route this afternoon. It also means a delay for Canadian National freight shipments.
Canadian National has not yet said how long it may take to repair the damage.
Feb 22, 2013
Starr DiGiacomo
http://www.wpsdlocal6.com/home/ticker/Coal-train-derails-in-New-Mad...
Coal train derails in New Madrid County, Missouri
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LILBOURN, Mo. - A train has derailed in the New Madrid County, Missouri, town of Lilbourn.
The derailment happened just after 5 a.m.
New Madrid County Sheriff's Department tells us it was a coal train owned by Union Pacific.
Dispatch tells us there have been no reports of injuries at this time, but police blocked off three crossings in the town of Lilbourn.
There's no timetable right now for when the area will be cleared and the cause of the derailment is still unknown.
Feb 27, 2013
Starr DiGiacomo
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High speed bullet train derails in Japan, no injuries.
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Agence France-PresseMarch 2, 2013 06:30
A Japanese bullet train carrying about 130 passengers and crew derailed in heavy snow in northern Japan Saturday, although there were no reports of injuries, media reports said.
The first car of the "Komachi" No. 25 bullet train came off the rails on the high-speed Akita Shinkansen line in Akita, Japan's national broadcaster NHK and other media said.
But there were no reports of injuries or casualties following the accident, NHK said, showing footage of railway officials checking the wheels of the train bound for Akita station.
NHK said the driver had brought the train to an emergency stop after hearing a loud noise.
The cause of the derailment has yet to be confirmed, but heavy snow may have resulted in the accident, local media said.
Immediate confirmation of the reports was not available. East Japan Railway, which operates the line, said on its website that bullet train services in the area had been suspended due to heavy snow.
Mar 2, 2013
Starr DiGiacomo
http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/local-news/empty-train-derails...
STERLING, Colo. - Authorities say an empty coal train derailed and sparked several small grass fires near Sterling in northeastern Colorado.
About 12 empty coal cars of the BNSF train derailed at about 8:40 a.m. Saturday. No injuries were reported but CDOT said Highway 138 was closed for a time at Logan County Road 43. It reopened about six hours after the accident.
- See more at: http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/local-news/empty-train-derails...Chief Kurt Vogel of Sterling Fire Department told 7NEWS the fires were put out quickly.
Empty train derails near Sterling, sparks grass fires
Derailed empty coal cars near Sterling.
(Photo courtesy: Chief Kurt Vogel/Sterling Fire)
Posted: 03/02/2013
Last Updated: 21 hours ago
STERLING, Colo. - Authorities say an empty coal train derailed and sparked several small grass fires near Sterling in northeastern Colorado.
About 12 empty coal cars of the BNSF train derailed at about 8:40 a.m. Saturday. No injuries were reported but CDOT said Highway 138 was closed for a time at Logan County Road 43. It reopened about six hours after the accident.
Chief Kurt Vogel of Sterling Fire Department told 7NEWS the fires were put out quickly.
Sterling is about 130 miles northeast of Denver.
Mar 3, 2013
Howard
Rockfall Causes Derailment in Spain, 11 Injured (Apr 5)
Spanish authorities say a rockfall has derailed a train, injuring 11 passengers after the first carriage partially plunged into a river just west of the northern city of Santander.
Regional government spokeswoman Patricia Fernandez says three passengers were taken to hospitals in Santander and Torrelavega with serious injuries while eight received first aid for minor injuries.
The first carriage left the tracks at Cabezon de la Sal, 450 kilometers (280 miles) north of Madrid, according to Adif, national operator of rail infrastructure.
Divers were called to the scene Friday evening, but national train operator Renfe said all passengers had been accounted for and a search of the river had not been necessary.
Sources
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/train-derails-spain-r...
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ukpress/article/ALeqM5hHAdLTSrFMb-...
Apr 6, 2013
Howard
Train Derailed by Landslide in Central Italy, 25 Injured (Apr 8)
The train, which was traveling towards the town of Perugia in the Umbria region, derailed when it hit mud and debris on the tracks as it came out of a tunnel, officials said.
Although the train conductor was able to swiftly brake, he could not avoid the accident, local television quoted railway authorities as saying.
One of the two compartments overturned, hampering efforts by rescue teams to reach the passengers inside.
The passengers, mostly commuters and students, were injured but not seriously. Some were rushed to a nearby hospital.
One of the two compartments involved in the accident remained on the tracks while the other was lying on its side, according to media reports.
Police and rescue teams were still working on the spot to ascertain the precise causes of the accident.
Sources
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2013-04/08/c_132292955.htm
http://www.adnkronos.com/IGN/Aki/English/Security/Italy-Landslide-d...
Apr 8, 2013
Starr DiGiacomo
http://wtvr.com/2013/04/07/amtrak-train-derails-after-mudslide/
Amtrak train derails after mudslide
Posted on: 10:47 pm, April 7, 2013
EVERETTE, Wash. (KCPQ) — A mudslide derailed an Amtrak train in Washington state on Sunday.
The train, traveling south from Everett to Seattle, ran into the mudslide and some dangerous debris around 8:30 Sunday morning.
The crash knocked three cars off the tracks, but no one was injured.
The derailed cars were disconnected, and the passengers were taken to Mukilteo, Washington where they were transferred to a bus bound for Seattle.
The cause of the slide is under investigation.
Apr 8, 2013
Starr DiGiacomo
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/train-carrying-nearly-200-pe...
Train carrying nearly 200 people derails near Oakland, but Amtrak says no injuries
By Associated Press, Updated: Sunday, April 14, 5:28 AM
OAKLAND, Calif. — Amtrak says a passenger train carrying nearly 200 people has derailed near Oakland, but there were no injuries.
Spokeswoman Christina Leeds says the train was en route from Los Angeles to Vancouver, Canada, when the front wheels of an engine went off the track about 9 p.m. PDT just north of Fremont, about 20 miles southeast of San Francisco.
Leeds tells The Associated Press that the train was traveling very slowly and none of the 11 passenger cars derailed.
She says there was “very minimal impact” to the train’s 164 passengers. There are also 14 crew members.
Leeds says that the lead engine was removed and the train got under way again about 12:30 a.m. PDT Sunday, under power of the second engine.
Apr 14, 2013
Starr DiGiacomo
http://www.starherald.com/news/local_news/train-derails-in-bridgepo...
Train derails in Bridgeport
Posted: Sunday, April 21, 2013 8:00 am | Updated: 10:06 am, Sun Apr 21, 2013.
Bridgeport residents woke to an uncommon site - a derailment on the Burlington Northern Santa Fe tracks going through the community.
William Weibert, a Star-Herald employee, shared photos of the derailment. Weibert said the derailment is near the community's train depot, on the tracks that run along Railway Avenue/Highway 385 in the community. The derailment is just a short distance from the Main Street/Highway 88 crossing in the community.
Weibert lives near the derailment site and estimated it occurred at about 5:30 a.m.
"My mom, Jonilee, heard the derailment," he said. "At first, she thought that it was thunder."
Cheree Fisher, chief deputy with the Morrill County Sheriff's Department, said 15 cars derailed in the accident this morning. The cause of the derailment is under investigation, she said, but no injuries occurred.
The crossing at Main Street/Highway 88 is expected to remain closed throughout the morning as crews bring equipment from Grand Island, Neb., and Cheyenne, Wyo., to remove the cars from the tracks, she said.
Andy Williams, media representative with Burlington Northern Santa Fe said that crews are hoping to have unblocked the crossing by this afternoon and the derailed cars removed from the track by this evening. Williams said there were a total of 124 cars in the southbound coal train.
Weibert said crews were working at the Main Street/Highway 88 crossing just the day before.
Apr 21, 2013
KM
http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/04/29/amazingly-no-one-hurt-after...
Amazingly, no one hurt after train derails in Saskatchewan
Canadian Press | 13/04/29 4:50 PM ET
TOGO, Sask. — Eleven people on a VIA Rail train are safe after a derailment in eastern Saskatchewan that appears to have been caused by water.
Via spokesman Jacques Gagnon said the train went over a section of track that had been washed out Sunday evening near Togo.
“Water basically … was undermining the track and it caused a slight derailment,” said Gagnon.
“I’ll characterize it as a slight derailment because no cars were [tipped over], they were still upright. There were no locomotives sideways or passenger cars sideways.”
The train was heading to Churchill, Man., from Winnipeg when the derailment happened.
The RCMP said in a news release that two engines and one car came off of the tracks. The Transportation Safety Board, however, said two coach cars derailed.
Apr 30, 2013
Starr DiGiacomo
http://helenair.com/news/local/train-derails-outside-helena/article...
Train derails outside Helena
Crews use heavy equipment to help stabilize and begin clean up of a multi-track derailment near Austin Road Tuesday morning. No one was hurt during the accident and the cause is still under investigation.
AUSTIN — A freight train derailed on the outskirts of town early Tuesday morning, scattering train cars down an embankment and on top of one another like pickup sticks.
No one was injured in the accident, but the Montana Rail Link line was expected to be out of commission all day, halting train traffic through Helena.
Linda Frost, a spokesperson for MRL, said they received word of the derailment, 13 miles west of Helena, at about 12:45 a.m. Tuesday. Thirteen empty cars derailed and another 12 cars parked on a siding — including three that contained corrosive material known as Piperidine — were damaged. Frost said the cars carrying the Piperidine were intact and nothing was released from them. The rest of the cars on the siding were carrying a variety of commodities.
The cause of the accident remains under investigation, but Frost said it appears that the 13 empty rail cars were eastbound and hit the parked cars when passing them. The accident occurred on a curve in the rail line.
Tuesday morning, at least two of the empty rail cars lay on their sides down a steep embankment, with the cover torn off of one. Others remained on the tracks, with one double-decker precariously perched at enough of an angle, leaning toward Austin Road. Crews used an excavator’s claw like a large hand to hold it in place.
“It’s a complicated situation,” Frost said. “A heavy equipment company has arrived on the site and will begin moving cars away from the track.”
She noted that they’re holding back rail traffic along the route until the tracks are cleared. Frost anticipated reopening the tracks Tuesday evening.
Gus Melonas, a spokesman for BNSF, said they were only minimally impacted by the derailment.
“At this point, BNSF has been able to weather the storm,” he said. “Fortunately, we have the Hi-Line operation, which is able to accommodate additional traffic. So we’re repositioning and rerouting over the Hi-Line route and will continue to do so until the derailment is cleaned up.”
May 1, 2013
Starr DiGiacomo
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-05-01/more-delays-as-another-train-...
More freight delays as another train derails
Posted Wed May 1, 2013 12:29pm AEST
Tasmania's southern railway line is expected to be closed for most of the day after a train derailed early this morning.
The train was heading to Burnie when it derailed near Colebrook about 3:30am.
Six wagons came off the track, but TasRail says there has been no damage to the freight and no-one was injured.
Crews are working to repair the line but it is expected to stay closed until later today.
It is the sixth train derailment this year.
TasRail's chief executive Damian White says major track upgrades are scheduled to be completed by September which should minimise future derailments.
He says TasRail is working with customers on an alternate freight solution while the track is repaired.
May 1, 2013
Starr DiGiacomo
http://www.wnem.com/story/22134299/train-derails-in-saginaw-several...
Derailed train blocks several streets in Saginaw
Posted: May 01, 2013 6:10 PM ADT Updated: May 01, 2013 7:48 PM ADT
SAGINAW TOWNSHIP, MI (WNEM) -
A train has derailed on the Saginaw-Saginaw Township line and several streets are blocked as a result.
Train derails in Saginaw, spills cargo
Until further notice, Superior, Wheeler and Maple streets are blocked due to the derailed train. Wheel is a major thoroughfare. The site looks to be just southeast of the Saginaw Country Club. The street that runs parallel to the crash scene is Burrows.
The derailment happened late Wednesday afternoon. The tracks in that area run east to west.
Photos sent to TV5 show at least two cars on their sides, with their load -- possibly soybeans or corn -- spilled along a grassy stretch near a road. One photo shows a severe bend to the tracks near where the cars flipped.
For a more detailed look into the damage, take a look through the photos in the slideshow to the left of this page.
No timeframe has been given for when the roadways will reopen.
May 2, 2013
Starr DiGiacomo
http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local_news/article/Train-derails-i...
Train derails in downtown Lytle
Updated 2:50 pm, Friday, May 3, 2013
LYTLE — Twenty-six cars of a northbound Union Pacific train derailed Friday morning in downtown Lytle, a railroad official said.
No one was injured, and all the cars, which usually carry sand, were empty, said Raquel Espinoza-Williams, spokeswoman for Union Pacific.
The tracks are closed and UP crews will work overnight to replace about 400 feet of damaged rail. The line might reopen Saturday morning, she said.
It was the second derailment on the UP line to Lytle since October. That one involved three cars and also caused no injuries or evacuations.
UP had a crew working on replacing track somewhere north of Lytle Thursday, the spokeswoman said. Also within the last two weeks, crews were working on crossings in Lytle as part of a track replacement program between Gessner and Gardendale in LaSalle County, a 90-mile stretch and a busy area for fracking.
UP are investigating Friday's derailment. An investigator from the state Railroad Commission also was on the scene, because the cars went off the tracks close to a propane storage unit.
The train, with five locomotives and 101 cars, derailed on a street that runs parallel to Main Street.
About 8 a.m., a police officer came into the city's police station, about a quarter mile from the rail line, to tell Lytle Police Chief Richey Priest that some rail cars had run off the tracks.
“I thought he was joking,” Priest said, “and he wasn't.”
Among the businesses and homes that border the tracks is a propane company at Prairie and Railroad streets. The derailed cars grazed about 11 propane tanks, Priest said, which were empty. But they appear to have missed a propane filling station that can store more than 4,000 gallons of liquid propane, an employee with Lytle Propane said.
About 20 minutes after the derailment, the city sent a reverse 911 call to town residents telling them to evacuate, Priest said. Lytle Primary School had children loaded onto buses when officials determined the derailment didn't pose a danger. A second reverse 911 call went out, 20 minutes after the first, to cancel the evacuation order, Priest said.
The train was headed to San Antonio from Gardendale in La Salle County. Espinoza-Williams said she was not sure when the train left Gardendale.
The cause of the derailment is unknown.
By 11 a.m., spectators, some with cameras, have gathered around the tracks as trucks hauled away some of the damaged railcars.
Lytle Police Lt. Matt Dear said another work train was going to pull up next to the derailed train and remove the undamaged cars.
There were some traffic tieups Friday morning, Priest said, he doesn't expect any major problems until possibly this afternoon, when children leave school.
For now, he's just thankful the cars weren't carrying any hazardous materials.
May 3, 2013
KM
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2319412/Hundreds-evacuated-...
Hundreds evacuated from homes in Belgium after freight train carrying chemicals crashes and explodes
Belgian authorities evacuated nearly 300 people from their homes
By Amanda Williams
PUBLISHED: 13:45 GMT, 4 May 2013 | UPDATED: 15:16 GMT, 4 May 2013
Two people are believed to have died after a freight train carrying chemicals crashed and exploded in Belgium this morning.
It had been thought no-one was seriously injured in the explosion after the train came off tracks near the city of Ghent.
But it has now been reported that two people have died, possibly as a result of inhaling toxic fumes from the explosion.
Belgian authorities confirmed they had evacuated nearly 300 people from nearby houses.
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A freight train has exploded on a track near Schellebelle, 20 kms east of Gent, Belgium
It had been thought no-one was injured in the explosion. But it is believed two have died
Belgian authorities evacuated nearly 300 people from their homes after several cars of the train carrying chemicals derailed
May 4, 2013
Starr DiGiacomo
http://www.wcax.com/story/22178909/train-derails-into-the-passumpsi...
Train derails into the Passumpsic River
Posted: May 07, 2013 6:31 AM ADT Updated: May 07, 2013 11:41 AM ADTThree freight cars will be pulled from the Passumpsic River Tuesday morning after derailing in East Barnet.
The cars went off the tracks near the Comerford Dam, and two cars are almost completely submerged. No one was hurt.
The cars were carrying feed grain for Washington County Railroad.
Vermont State Police say it appears the cars tumbled because of bank erosion.
Heavy machinery pushes gravel along a blown out section of track in East Barnet. Other crews work to shore up the bank of the rail line which parallels the Passumpsic River. This section of the track failed Monday night, causing the freight train to derail.
"The tail four cars derailed. We got three over the bank and one still on top," said Shane Filskov of the Vermont Rail System.
The Washington County Railroad train was headed south from Newport, its cars loaded with corn. No one was injured during the accident. Angie Nelson was watching TV in her nearby apartment as first responders raced to the scene.
"There was a fire truck in the back of our yard in the field over there, and then there was another fire truck that went zooming down past and we were like, what the heck is going on? We all came out and looked around and were like, we don't smell any smoke, we don't see any fire," Nelson said.
At this time, crews are still working to figure out why the tracks gave way. Getting the line back up and running was the priority Tuesday afternoon.
"The cause is still under investigation; it will take some time for us to figure it out," Filskov said.
The cars rest partially submerged just south of the Comerford Dam. It's the same section of river that recently claimed the life of a boater. Throughout the day Tuesday, interested bystanders stopped by to check out the scene.
Reporter Adam Sullivan: You don't get this too often around here do you?
Angie Nelson: No, a little out in the boonies.
Train officials are currently developing a game plan to get the three cars out of the river and up the bank. However, they say that process could take several days.
Repairs to the bank and tracks are expected to be completed Tuesday evening. Railway officials say that will allow them to begin off-loading the corn over the next few days in preparation for removing the cars from the river.
May 7, 2013
Kojima
US derailment: 'Extensive damage', says Gov Malloy [BBC News; 18 May 2013]
Dozens injured in US train crash [BBC News; 18 May 2013]
Some 60 people have been injured, five critically, after a head-on, rush-hour collision between two commuter trains near New York City, officials say.
About 250 people were on the trains involved in Friday evening's crash. No fatalities have been reported.
Officials said a train that left New York City's Grand Central station en route to New Haven, Connecticut, derailed then was hit by another train.
Connecticut Governor Dannel Malloy said the front of one of the trains had been extensively damaged and its wheels were "sticking into the other train".
One of the five people with the most serious injuries was described as being in a "very critical" condition.
Amtrak has suspended its service between New York and Boston.
Metro-North Railroad described it as a "major derailment", just outside Bridgeport, Connecticut.
Connecticut Governor Dannel Malloy said the front of one of the trains had been extensively damaged and its wheels were "sticking into the other train".
One of the five people with the most serious injuries was described as being in a "very critical" condition.
Investigators are trying to find out what caused the crash, which came shortly after 18:00 local time (22:00 GMT).
Gov Malloy said he had no reason to believe it was anything other than an accident.
Bridgeport Police Chief Joseph Gaudett said most of those hurt were walking wounded.
"Everybody seemed pretty calm," he told the Associated Press. "Everybody was thankful they didn't get seriously hurt. They were anxious to get home to their families."
But Canadian passenger Alex Cohen told NBC Connecticut that "people were screaming... they had to smash a window to get us out".
One witness, Brian Alvarez, told CNN: "I saw this one car and it was completely destroyed and they were pulling people out of the car. They were all bloody."
May 18, 2013
KM
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/derailed-saskatchewan-...
Derailed Saskatchewan train spills more than 91,000 litres of oil
JANSEN, SASK. — The Canadian Press
Published Tuesday, May. 21 2013, 6:40 PM EDT
Last updated Tuesday, May. 21 2013, 7:28 PM EDT
A freight train jumped the tracks in southeastern Saskatchewan Tuesday and spilled more than 91,000 litres of oil.
The accident happened as the Canadian Pacific Rail eastbound train was rolling through an area near the village of Jansen, about 150 kilometres southeast of Saskatoon.
The company said five cars derailed, but only one leaked its contents. A total of 575 barrels hit the ground, said spokesman Ed Greenberg.
“There is one car that was leaking product,” Mr. Greenberg said. “It has been contained into the area around the car.”
The leaking car was well back in the 64-unit train and remained upright. The other four cars were on their sides.
Excavation equipment was being sent to the site to build a wall of dirt to further contain the spill.
Reeve Bruce Elke with the rural municipality of Jansen was content with the way the situation was being handled, although he noted he was seeding his farmland and had not been to the scene.
“My understanding was that it wasn’t that big a spill and everything is going well,” Mr. Elke said.
Oil spills of any sort have been increasingly under the microscope as debate rages over how best to get Canadian oil to foreign markets.
CP Rail has been increasing crude shipments as production ramps up from the oilsands and pipeline companies struggle to increase capacity quickly. Canadian National Railway moved more than 30,000 carloads of crude to various North American markets last year and believes it can double that business in 2013.
However, in New York earlier this month, Prime Minister Stephen Harper suggested rail was a riskier way to go while stumping for U.S. approval of the Keystone XL pipeline from Alberta to the Gulf Coast.
Tuesday’s spill marked at least the third involving a CP train in the last few months.
In April, about 20 freight cars, including two that were carrying light sweet crude oil, went off the tracks near White River, Ont., about halfway between Thunder Bay and Sault Ste. Marie. While it was initially thought that only 630 litres of oil leaked, the total was revised to about 63,000 litres.
In March, a Canadian Pacific train derailed in Minnesota. At the time, Minnesota Pollution Control Agency said 76,000 litres leaked onto the still-frozen ground.
In January a Canadian National train collided with a road grader near the community of Paynton in Saskatchewan. Police said at the time that about 1,000 litres of oil leaked from two tankers in that crash.
Mr. Greenberg said the train that detailed Tuesday was carrying other products besides oil, but there was no indication they were hazardous.
“It was a mixed freight train, so there were other rail cars with other commodities on it.”
Firefighters from Jansen were called in as a precaution.
The Transportation Safety Board of Canada was sending an investigator to the site.
May 22, 2013
Starr DiGiacomo
http://www.postbulletin.com/news/local/flood-derails-train-charles-...
Flood derails train; Charles City flood warnings remain in place
AP PHOTO/The Globe Gazette, Arian Schuessler
Crews work at the scene of a Canadian Pacific derailment near Charles City, Iowa, on Tuesday. No injuries were reported. The derailment was caused by a washed-out rail line caused by flooding in the area.
Posted: Wednesday, May 22, 2013 8:47 am | Updated: 9:31 am, Wed May 22, 2013.
Post-Bulletin and news services
HOUSTON, Minn. — Even as high rivers started to recede in southeastern Minnesota, flooding caused a train to derail near Charles City, Iowa, late on Monday.
Rescuers called to the scene found the train's engineer and conductor atop one of the derailed locomotives in an area surrounded by rising floodwaters.
No one was injured in the derailment of the Canadian Pacific train.
Railroad spokesman Ed Greenberg says the derailment was caused by a washed-out rail line. Five cars — four of them carrying ethanol — derailed.
Railroad inspectors initially reported none of the ethanol leaked, but Tuesday night the Iowa Department of Natural Resources confirmed ethanol and diesel were leaking into the Little Cedar River.
The DNR says one of the ethanol cars has been punctured, resulting in a slow leak.
Meanwhile, flood warnings remain in place from the National Weather Service today for two southeastern Minnesota rivers after spring storms inundated the area with rain, though projected water levels are expected to fall steadily through the weekend.
The Root River in Houston County rose nearly nine feet after the recent storm, but it peaked Tuesday night at 16.42 feet; 17 feet is considered moderate flood stage. It had dropped to 14.71 feet as of Wednesday morning, which is still considered minor flood stage, but is projected to fall back to around seven feet by Sunday.
The water level of the Trempealeau River in Dodge County peaked Wednesday morning at 9.19 feet, which is just above what the service considered minor flooding. That marks an increase of three feet since Sunday night as thunderstorm ripped through the area. However, that river is expected to fall to around eight feet by Thursday morning before dropping below the "action" stage on Friday.
Rochester received a record rainfall of 2.07 inches Sunday, which nearly doubled the previous high on that date of 1.20 inches from 1959. Dover got 2.65 inches of rain, and Altura got 2.29.
This spring is already the wettest recorded in Rochester. The weather service said the 15.89 inches through Friday topped the previous record of 15.87 inches in March, April and May of 2001.
May 22, 2013
Kojima
News for Missouri Train Accidents
* 7 injured in Mo. train collision, overpass collapse [USA Today; 25 May 2013]
Two vehicles crashed after coming upon the bridge after it had fallen.
Two freight trains collided early Saturday morning, collapsing a highway overpass near Chaffee, Mo.
(Photo: Cape Girardeau Fire Department)
One of the drivers, Christopher Cantrell, 22, said he didn't see the bridge had collapsed until it was too late.
All seven of the victims were treated and released by Saturday afternoon, Saint Francis Medical Center spokeswoman Felecia Blanton told the Associated Press.
Blanton said when she heard about the crash, she immediately went online and saw video footage of the scene and was bracing for the worst. She said it was "a real blessing" that the injuries were relatively minor, the most serious being a fracture.
"If you look at the pictures, they're very dramatic, and there are no serious injuries," she said. "So it's amazing."
Wayne Woods, a bystander who rushed to the scene of the crash, said, "I heard the crash and stepped outside, and my son said the overpass was down. Then we heard car's tires squealing like it was coming to a stop and a crash, and a horn continuously blowing ... When I got over there, the train was on its side."
At least a dozen Union Pacific train cars and a dozen Burlington Northern cars derailed in the accident.
The Union Pacific train was hauling auto parts from Salem, Ill., to Arlington, Texas, according to Union Pacific spokewoman Calli Hite. The Burlington Northern train was hauling scrap metal, BNSF spokesman Andy Williams said.
The crash also ignited a fire that crews were able to extinguish quickly. The National Transportation Safety Board has been dispatched a team to investigate the incident.
The collision comes just two days after a span of an Interstate 5 bridge over the Skagit River in Washington collapsed — caused when an oversized truck hit an overhead girder — and just over a week after a commuter train derailed in Bridgeport, Conn., suspending rail service along the heavily traveled New York-Boston corridor.
* NTSB investigating cause of SE Mo. train crash - Yahoo! News [Yahoo! News; 25 May 2013]
CHAFFEE, Mo. (AP) — The National Transportation Safety Board has launched an investigation into the cause of a cargo train collision that partially collapsed a highway overpass in southeast Missouri, injuring seven people.
The collision occurred about 2:30 a.m. Saturday when a Union Pacific train hit a Burlington Northern Santa Fe train at a rail intersection under a highway near Chaffee, a town of about 3,000 southwest of Cape Girardeau.
Scott County Sheriff's Office Dispatcher Clay Slipis said several cars derailed and hit a pillar of the Highway M overpass, bringing it down. Two cars were on the overpass when it fell. The highway was shut down for about 8 miles from Scott City to Chaffee.
Seven people — five in the vehicles and a UP train conductor and engineer — were taken to a hospital. Slipis said all but one was treated and released; the seventh is in good condition.
A diesel fire that broke out after the collision was quickly extinguished, Slipis said.
BNSF spokesman Andy Williams said the 75-car BNSF train, which was carrying scrap metal, was hit by the Union Pacific train about eight cars back from the locomotive. He said 12 cars on the BNSF train derailed.
"Our crew was not impacted," Williams said.
Union Pacific spokeswoman Calli Hite said the 60-car UP train was carrying primarily automobiles or auto parts from Illinois to Texas. She said about a dozen UP railcars derailed.
Hite said the NTSB will determine what caused the accident, and that there was no immediate estimate on the amount of damage to the roadway or the rail cars.
"We have no indication as to cause of the incident, but that will be handled by the NTSB," Hite said.
Williams said cleanup had not yet begun at mid-day Saturday because crews were waiting for the NTSB to arrive.
"We are fully cooperating with the NTSB, and we have to defer to their timeline," Hite said.
May 25, 2013