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Train Derailments and Explosions - 2013 list:
August 04, 2013 - Sunday - Louisiana - chemical train derailment
http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2013/08/train_derails_in_north_louisia.html
(Of the 23 cars that derailed Sunday, 14 contained "regulated substances" that are harmful or toxic. The train was traveling between Lake Charles and the New Orleans area.)
August 03, 2013 - Saturday - Bangkok, Thailand - Khao Pleung tunnel train derailment
http://news.asiaone.com/news/asia/chiang-mai-bound-train-derails-tunnel-0
( Six carriages of a Chiang Mai-bound express train derailed in an over-100-year-old tunnel in Uttaradit's Muang district, in the 382-metre-long Khao Pleung tunnel, located between Ban Pang Ton Phueng in Uttaradit and Huai Rai Station in Den Chai, Phrae.)
July 29, 2013 - Monday Evening - 2 Swiss trains collide
http://in.news.yahoo.com/swiss-train-crash-injures-40-183531434.html
July 28, 2013 - Sunday - Southwest, Baltimore - Freight train derailment
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/baltimore-city/south-baltimore/bs-md-csx-derailment-20130729,0,2825638.story
(Eight cars of the CSX train derailed about 10:15 a.m. Sunday in Southwest Baltimore near Hollins Ferry Road and Paca Street. The train that was traveling from hamlet, N.C., to Selkirk, N.Y., with 118 cars, was pulled by two diesel locomotives.)
July 26, 2913 - Friday - Alberta, Canada Lloyminster train derailment
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2013/07/27/lloydminster-train-derailment-oil-tanker-cars_n_3664306.html
(Canadian Pacific (TSX:CP) spokesman Ed Greenberg says a locomotive and seven cars carrying oil left the tracks Friday afternoon in the city that straddles the Alberta-Saskatchewan boundary.)
July 25, 2013 - Thursday - Tampa, Florida - Chemical Freight train derailment
http://www.wtsp.com/news/breaking/article/326794/20/Tampa-Fire-Rescue-on-the-scene-of-a-train-derailment-at-the-Port-of-Tampa
(The train was coming into the port at 1 a.m. when it left the tracks, pulling twelve cars off of the rails -- and sending ten of those completely onto their sides, according to Tampa Fire Rescue spokesman Capt. Lonnie Benniefield.)
July 24, 2013 - Wednesday - Santiago de Compostela Madrid, Spain train derailment
http://www.sott.net/article/264305-Spain-train-crash-reports-of-at-least-77-killed-130-injured
(an explosion reported before seeing the derailed train.)
July 19, 2013 - Friday - Bronx, New York - Freight train derailment
http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=news/local/new_york&id=9177872
(A freight train hauling garbage derailed between stations Thursday night. The damage was so substantial that only one of two tracks in the area is back in service on Monday.)
July 18, 2013 - Thursday - Benbrook, Texas - Freight train derailment
http://www.myfoxdfw.com/story/22872976/train-derails-in-benbrook
(Benbrook Fire Chief Tommy Davis said the accident happened around 5:30 a.m. Thursday on the line that runs along Aledo Road. A locomotive and five rail cars came off the track.
The 45-car train en-route to Dallas from Tucson, Ariz. had been carrying mostly paper products and not any hazardous materials.)
July 18, 2013 - Thursday - West of Scottsville, West Virgina - Coal train derailment
http://www.nbc29.com/story/22879018/train-derails-in-southern-albemarle
(Twenty-nine cars hauling loads of coal went off the tracks near Hatton Grange Farm along the James River west of Scottsville.)
July 17, 2013 - Wednesday - Buffalo, New York - Chemical train derailment
http://www.wgrz.com/news/article/220151/37/Train-Derails-on-Buffalo...
(Managers at CSX Rail say three cars on a train jumped the tracks on an overpass at William and Fillmore in Buffalo. The train was heading from Indianapolis to Albany.)
July 17, 2013 - Wednesday - Northern Thailand - train derailment
http://www.independent.ie/world-news/tourists-hurt-as-thai-train-derails-29427025.html
July 16, 2013 - Tuesday - Hays, Kansas - Chemical train derailment
http://www.kwch.com/news/kwch-news-jam-train-derails-and-catches-fire-east-of-hays-20130716,0,1057470.story
(Authorities in Hays say a dozen train cars derailed and caught fire at 8th and Vine overnight. Those cars are carrying general cargo and freight. The train was also hauling 20 cars of ethanol, but officials say those are still upright and on the tracks. Two of the three locomotives caught fire, causing a massive fire which crews are still on the scene battling.)
July 14, 2013 - Sunday - Millsboro, Delaware - Stone Freight train derailment
http://www.delawareonline.com/article/20130714/NEWS01/307140057/Norfolk-Southern-freight-train-derails-north-Millsboro?nclick_check=1
(About 70 train cars hauling stone were being pulled by two locomotives and were traveling south on the tracks in a wooded area north of Millsboro. 15 of the cars were forced off the tracks and spilled stone as a result of the derailment.)
July 12, 2013 - Friday - Bretigny-sur-Orge, South of Paris - train derailment
http://www.dw.de/passenger-train-derails-near-paris-fatalities/a-16948503
(The ministry was quoted as saying that the train approached the railway station at high speed, before being separated into two parts for an unknown reason. )
July 10, 2013 - Wednesday - La Grande, Oregon - Chemical train derailment
http://www.statesmanjournal.com/article/20130710/UPDATE/130710004/Train-derails-near-La-Grande-no-injuries-hazardous-spills?nclick_check=1
(A total of 27 rail cars derailed on Union Pacific tracks north of Highway 203 east of La Grande near Hot Lake just before 2 a.m. today, but emergency responders said no significantly hazardous material leaked and no injuries were reported.)
July 08, 2013 - Monday - Brandywine Creek, Pennsylvania - Steel freight train derailment
http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story?section=news/local&id=9165803
(Emergency crews were on the scene of a freight train derailment in Chester County. It happened after 3:00 p.m. Monday on the tracks near the 900 block of Wagon Town Road in Valley Township. The derailment sent two railcars plunging into the Brandywine Creek. A locomotive also jumped the tracks.)
July 08, 2013 - Monday - White Cloud, Michigan - train derailment
http://www.wzzm13.com/news/article/260909/2/Train-derails-north-of-White-Cloud
(The train derailed north of White Cloud, between Monroe Street and Foss Avenue.
No one was injured in the derailment and it did not effect road traffic. However, it will take some time for Marquette Rail to move the train cars and repair the tracks.)
July 07, 2013 - Sunday - Russia’s Krasnodar Region - train derailment
http://en.ria.ru/russia/20130707/182109212/Train-Derails-Injuring-70-in-Southern-Russia--Official.html
(The locomotive and several cars of the train, which connects Novossibirsk in Siberia to Adler on the shores of the Black Sea, went off the rails and slid sideways. Interfax news agency quoted investigators as saying that 11 train cars derailed in the crash, five overturning. The driver braked sharply after noticing that part of the tracks in Russia's southern Krasnodar region was deformed.)
July 06, 2013 - Saturday - Farnham, Canada - Lac-Magantic train derailment & mega explosion
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2013/07/25/lac-megantic-mma-police-raid_n_3652994.ht
(a runaway freight train - after conductor parked & locked train)
July 03, 2013 - Wednesday - Veazia, Maine - Freight train derailment
http://www.sunjournal.com/news/0001/11/30/four-tanker-cars-derail-veazie-no-leaks-reported/1388427
(Four tankers in a 92-car Pan Am Railways train derailed Wednesday morning near the Penobscot River.
It was a mixed train, with paper, wallboard, scrap metal, wood, a couple sand cars.)
July 03, 2013 - Wednesday - Barker, New York - Freight train derailment
http://www.wbng.com/news/local/Train-derails-in-Barker--214205931.html
(The train was traveling on the New York, Susquehanna and Western Railway - six cars toppled over.)
June 30, 2012 - Sunday - Coshocton, Ohio - Coal Freight train derailment
http://www.coalguru.com/north_america/coal_train_bound_for_coshocton_derails_near_veterans/10784
(The 54 car train, loaded in Burr Oak Mine in Glouster, was bound for American Electric Power in Coshocton when the last seven cars went off the track at about 5:50 am.)
June 28, 2013 - Friday - Wilminton, North Carolina - Chemical Freight train derailment
http://www.wwaytv3.com/2013/06/28/work-continues-to-clear-derailed-...
( A train carrying flammable cargo is derailed in Wilmington's Love Grove community, blocking people who live there from getting in and out of the neighborhood. Dispatchers say the train ran off the tracks in the 1200 block of Love Grove.)
June 27, 2013 - Thursday - Mohawk Valley, New York - Freight train derailment
http://www.timesunion.com/local/article/Train-derails-in-Montgomery-County-4625348.php
(Two trains coming from opposite directions sideswiped each other for an as yet undetermined reason at about 8 a.m.. A conductor and engineer suffered minor injuries at the scene, which left several rail cars carrying dry goods, lumber, garbage and other cargo sheared and crumpled, officials said.)
June 27, 2013 - Thursday - Calgary, Canada - Bonnybrook bridge train derailment
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2013/06/27/deerfoot-trail-closed-calgary-train-derailment_n_3510585.html
(The train derailed after a section of the bridge dropped two feet (60 centimeters) Thursday morning, the bridge is not in the water but is slowly sagging into the river.)
June 25, 2013 - Monday - Kaduna, India - Lagos bound Passenger train derailment
http://www.dailytimes.com.ng/article/lagos-bound-train-derails-kaduna-injures-four
(At least four people were injured on Monday when a Lagos bound locomotive passenger train from Kano derailed at Kakawu area, in Chikun local government area of Kaduna State. The accident which occurred at about 4pm local time, affected four couches of the train when it fell off from the rail line.)
June 22,2013 - Saturday - Lee County, Kentucky - Passenger train derailment
http://www.lex18.com/news/train-derails-in-lee-county
(It happened about 3 miles east of Beattyville. Two people on board the train were not hurt. The train cars were dragged off the rails along the tracks for miles, damaging a large portion of the track, including asphalt wooden sections of the track.)
June 19, 2013 - Tuesday- Desoto, Illinois - Coal train derailment
http://thesouthern.com/news/local/communities/jackson/coal-train-derails-in-desoto-late-tuesday/article_fa498be4-d8d9-11e2-92df-0019bb2963f4.html
( Seven coal cars from a Union Pacific train derailed Tuesday night about 1 1/2 miles east of De Soto near the Illinois 149 and Mine Road intersection.)
June 19, 2013 - Tuesday - Frionia, Texas - Freight train derailment
http://journalstar.com/ap/otherstate/high-wind-derails-bnsf-cars/ar...
(德州狭长地形的铁路已经重新开放fter storms packing winds strong enough to form a tornado overturned more than 40 BNSF Railway cars.)
June 18, 2013 - Monday - East River Tunnel, New York - Passenger train derailment
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/lirr-derailment-snarls-monday-commute-article-1.1375261?localLinksEnabled=false
(An eastbound Long Island Rail Road train carrying thousands of passengers derailed in an East River tunnel during the Monday evening rush, causing a nightmare for commuters.No injuries were reported in the 6:09 p.m. derailment, but service on the four biggest LIRR branches out of Penn Station was reduced to just one train per hour.)
June 11, 2013 - Tuesday - Norwood, Cincinnati - Freight train derailment
http://news.cincinnati.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/AB/20130610/N...
(At around 8:20 p.m. crews were called to Forest and Harris avenues to investigate after the train knocked down an electrical tower. That area is just south of the Norwood Lateral, near Waterworks Park. Five cars from an Indiana & Ohio Railway train derailed and knocked over a major power transmission tower. The tower, which he estimated to be about 125 feet tall, toppled onto the Zumbiel Company building.)
June 08, 2013 - Monday - Baltimore, MD - Freight train derailment
http://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2013/06/07/another-train-derails-in-baltimore-county-no-injuries-reported/
(Fire officials confirm ten cars derailed Friday near Hammonds Ferry Road and Elizabeth Road. Four of those cars turned onto their side. The train was carrying trash from New York to Virginia on a route shared with MARC trains.)
June 03, 2013 - Monday - Wheatland, New York - Rock Salt Freight train derailment
http://www.democratandchronicle.com/article/20130604/NEWS01/306040018/train-derailment-in-wheatland?gcheck=1&nclick_check=1
(No one was injured in the derailment, which occurred about 9:15 pm Monday just east of the crossing at Wheatland Center Road in Wheatland. But 20 hopper cars filled with salt from the American Rock Salt mine in Groveland left the rails.)
June 02, 2013 - Sunday - Sunbury, Ont. Canada - Wahnapitae River train derailment
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2013/06/02/ontario-sudbury-train-derailment-wanup.html
( incident is the result of an unexpected and catastrophic wheel bearing failure - Canadian Pacific has a network of electronic inspection systems that didn't detect any problem with the rail car wheels or bearings prior to the derailment.)
May 29, 2013 - Wednesday - Lagos, Nigeria - train derailment
http://pmnewsnigeria.com/2013/05/29/train-derails-in-lagos/
(A train towing another train derailed Wednesday at Agege, Lagos, southwest Nigeria.)
May 29, 2013 - Wednesday - Ogden, Wyoming - Freight train derailment
http://fox13now.com/2013/05/29/train-derails-in-ogden/
(At least five Union Pacific rail cars derailed Wednesday around 8:30 a.m. in Ogden. The rail cars were carrying new automobiles from Cheyenne, Wyoming to Salt Lake City.)
May 29, 2013 - Wednesday - Morningside Heights, New York - Passenger train derailment
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/1-train-derails-stranding-passe...
(数百名乘客被困ltering subway cars during rush hour after the No. 1 train derailed in Morningside Heights. Two wheels on the lead subway car jumped their track about 5:50 p.m., disabling the southbound train a few blocks south of the above-ground W. 125th St. station.)
May 28, 2013 - Tuesday - Baltimore, Md. - White Marsh train derailment
http://globalnews.ca/news/595867/train-derailment-causes-explosion-in-baltimore/
(A cargo train derailed Tuesday in a Baltimore suburb and an explosion could be heard for miles, collapsing nearby buildings and setting them on fire, officials and witnesses said. )
May 25, 2013 - Saturday - Chaffee, Mo. - Rockview train derailment
http://www.dailystatesman.com/story/1972964.html
(The collision occurred at about 2:30 a.m. Saturday when a Union Pacific train hit a Burlington Northern Santa Fe train at a rail intersection near Route M and County Road 210. Derailed rail cars then hit columns supporting the Highway M overpass, causing it to buckle. )
May 21, 2013 - Tuesday - Charles City, Iowa - Freight train derailment
http://www.postbulletin.com/news/local/flood-derails-train-charles-...
(Crews work at the scene of a Canadian Pacific derailment near Charles City, Iowa. No injuries were reported. The derailment was caused by a washed-out rail line caused by flooding in the area.)
May 21, 2013 - Tuesday - Canada: Train derailment in Saskatchewan - Canadian Pacific (CP) freight train jumped the tracks in southeastern Saskatchewan, spilling more than 91,000 liters of oil, marking at least the third derailment involving CP trains in recent months. On the same day, a gigantic sinkhole opened on HW744 in Alberta, Canada (Source) and a construction crane collapsed on a passing car in Gallatin, Tennessee.
May 20, 2013 - Monday - Mississippi: Train derailment at U.S. 90 in Pascagoula - Train derailed just south of US 90. On the same day in New Jersey, an indoor sinkhole swallowed a forklift and its operator (Source)? AND, also on the same day on the other side of the world in China, a massive sinkhole opened in Shenzhen killing five workers. Source.
May 19, 2013 - Sunday - Illinois: Amtrak train derailment in Chicago - Amtrak train leaving New Orleans derailed near Chicago's Union Station Sunday morning. CTA workers removed a beam from a damaged part of the tracks.
May 17, 2013 - Friday- Connecticut: Metro-North commuter train derails
http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/17/images-from-connecticut-train-derailment/?ref=us&_r=0
(Commuter train derailed in Connecticut, striking another commuter train between Bridgeport and Fairfield, about 50 miles northeast of New York City. A fractured segment of track was found.)
May 17, 2013 - Friday - China: Train derails in Tin Shui Wai
On the same date, a huge sinkhole opened in Benton County, Arkansas. On May 16, construction cranes topple in New Zealand and India, and a school bus in Texas fell into a sinkhole in Austin.
May 09, 2013 -Thursday - Illinois: Chicago CTA Red Line “L” car derails - Car on southbound CTA train derailed. On May 8, construction cranes toppled in Switzerland, Norway, and China. On May 6 and 4, construction cranes also toppled in New York and Ohio (two workers killed in Ohio).
May 9, 2013 - Thursday - Russia: Freight train derails, explodes, hurls rail car into building - On the same date as the Chicago derailment, a Russian train - carrying sodium chloride, gasoline, fuel oil, and propane - derailed with a tremendous exploxion that hurled a rail car into the sixth-floor wall of a residential block."
May 07, 2013 - Tuesday - Passumpsic River, Vermont - Freight train derailment
http://www.wcax.com/story/22178909/train-derails-into-the-passumpsi...
(Three 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.)
May 4 - 2013 - Saturday- Ghent, Belgium - Freight train derailment
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2319412/Hundreds-evacuated-homes-Belgium-freight-train-carrying-chemicals-crashes-explodes.html
(Freight train carrying flammable chemicals derailed and exploded near Ghent killing two and causing a major fire near the city of Ghent.)
May 03, 2013 - Friday - Lytle, Texas - Freight train derailment
http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local_news/article/Train-derails-in-downtown-Lytle-4486119.php
(A defect on the bottom of a metal bar that holds two sections of rail together caused a 26-car train derailment here Friday, a railroad official said.)
May 02, 2013 - Thursday - Sagninaw, IL - Freight train derailment
http://www.wnem.com/story/22134299/train-derails-in-saginaw-several-streets-blocked
(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.)
May 01, 2013 - Wednesday - Colebrook, Tamania - Freight train derailment
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-05-01/more-delays-as-another-train-...
( Photo: It is the sixth train derailment this year.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.)
May 01, 2013 - Wednesday - Helena, Texas - Freight train derailment
http://helenair.com/news/local/train-derails-outside-helena/article...
(A freight train derailed on the outskirts of town early Tuesday morning, scattering train cars down an embankment and on top of one another. Thirteen empty cars derailed and another 12 cars parked on a siding — including three that contained corrosive material known as Piperidine — were damaged.)
May 01, 2013 - Wednesday- New Mexico, USA: Two trains derail in same location within weeks of each other. (Source)
April 29, 2013 - Monday - Saskatchewan, Canada - Passenger train derailment
http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/04/29/amazingly-no-one-hurt-after-train-derails-in-saskatchewan/
(Eleven people on a VIA Rail train are safe after a derailment in eastern Saskatchewan that appears to have been caused by water.)
April 21, 2013 - Sunday - Bridgeport, Wyoming - Freight train derailment
http://www.starherald.com/news/local_news/train-derails-in-bridgeport/article_c6908c8e-aa8b-11e2-bcf6-001a4bcf887a.html
(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 but no injuries occurred.)
April 14, 2013 - Sunday - Oakland, California - Passenger Train derailment
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/train-carrying-nearly-200-pe...
( Amtrak says a passenger train carrying nearly 200 people has derailed near Oakland, but there were no injuries. 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.)
April 10, 2013 - Wednesday - Arakkonam, India - Passenger train derailment
http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/one-killed-as-trai...
(One passenger was killed and 33 others, including six women and two children, were injured when 12 bogies of Muzaffarpur-Yesvantpur Express (no.15228) derailed at the Chitheri railway station, eight km from here on Wednesday morning.)
April 08, 2013 - Monday - Perugia in Umbria region, Italy - Passenger train derailment
http://www.adnkronos.com/IGN/Aki/English/Security/Italy-Landslide-d...
(A total of 25 people were injured Monday morning when two compartments of a passenger train veered off the tracks in central Italy due to a landslide, local media said. 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.)
April 07, 2013 - Sunday - Everette, Washington - Passenger train derailment
http://wtvr.com/2013/04/07/amtrak-train-derails-after-mudslide/
(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.)
April 05, 2013 - Friday - Cabezon de la Sal, Spain - Passenger train derailment
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/train-derails-spain-r...
( 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.
March 19, 2013 - Monday - Queens, New York - Passenger train derailmenthttp://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/19/nyregion/lirr-train-derails-near-...
(A Long Island Rail Road train derailed Monday night west of Jamaica Station in the vicinity of Forest Hills, Queens, causing potential delays for the morning commute, but no injuries, the authorities said. The train, which was carrying no passengers, was heading west toward Pennsylvania Station just before 9 p.m. when the incident occurred. The cause was under investigation.)
March 13, 2013 - Wednesday - Bucksport, Maine - Freight train derailment
http://www.wabi.tv/news/38414/train-derails-in-close-to-paper-mill
(A train went off the tracks in Bucksport. Cars on a Pan Am Railways train derailed near the Verso Paper Mill.)
March 07, 2013 - Thursday - Mattawamkeag, Maine - Freight train derailment
http://bangordailynews.com/2013/03/07/news/penobscot/freight-train-...
(Firefighters said one of the train’s personnel reported that the first sign of trouble was a sudden increase of speed on the engine. A 14-car freight train pulling 13 full crude oil tankers apparently spilled only three gallons of oil when it derailed Thursday yards from the Penobscot River. The train apparently went off the tracks, with most of its cars but not its engine landing on their sides.)
March 05, 2013 - Tuesday - Swartz, Louisiana - Freight train derailment
http://www.thenewsstar.com/videonetwork/2205111899001/Train-derails...
(Louisiana State Police are at the scene of a train derailment in the Swartz community where 10 Union Pacific railcars overturned early Tuesday morning. The train consisted of three locomotives and 136 railcars. All of the railcars were carrying coal.)
March 05, 2013 - Tuesday - Gilette, Washington - Freight train derailment
http://www.gillettenewsrecord.com/stories/BNSF-train-derails-east-o...
(A train belonging to BNSF Railway derailed about 5 miles east of Gillette at 6.55 a.m. Tuesday.
The train was heading from Pasco, Wash., to Lincoln, Neb. Ten rail cars that derailed were designed for hauling cars. They were empty.)
March 05, 2013 - Tuesday - Victoria, Canada - Freight train derailment
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-03-05/freight-train-derails-in-stat...
(Crash investigators started examining the site to determine how 14 carriages carrying grain came off the tracks near Pyramid Hill, north of Bendigo.)
March 03, 2013 - Saturday - Sterling, Colorado - Freight train derailment
http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/local-news/empty-train-derails...
(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.)
February 28, 2013 - Monday - Ritter, Ohio - Freight train derailment
http://kiwaradio.com/local-news/another-train-derails-near-ritter/
(Union Pacific spokesperson Raquel Espinoza says that 19 cars derailed from a southbound train about 2:35 this morning (2/28). She says four cars released soybean oil and three released soybean meal, all of which will be picked up. )
February 27, 2013 - Sunday - Lilbourn, Missouri - Freight train derailment
http://www.wpsdlocal6.com/home/ticker/Coal-train-derails-in-New-Mad...
(A train has derailed in the New Madrid County, Missouri, town of Lilbourn. The derailment happened just after 5 a.m. with no reported injuries.)
February 22, 2013 - Tuesday - Jackson, Mississippi - Freight train derailment
http://www.wlox.com/story/21308217/canadian-national-railway-train-...
(Eighteen Canadian National Railway train cars derailed off of the tracks in Jackson Friday morning,
17 of the derailed cars were filled with grain and the other was empty.)
February 22, 2013 - Tuesday - Leeds, Maine - Freight train derailment
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/2013/02/22/train-der...
( Authorities say five cars of a freight train carrying chicken feed have derailed in the town of Leeds, Maine, and they remained upright during the accident.)
February 21, 2013 - Monday - Springfield, Mass. - Chemical train derailment
http://www.cbs3springfield.com/story/21302475/train-delrailment-clo...
(A tanker car containing a flammable liquid chemical derailed on the train trestle over Route 5 at 6:09 Thursday night. The trestle crosses Route 5 a little north of the Memorial Avenue Rotary.)
February 21, 2013 - Monday - Baltimore, Maryland - Chemical train derailment
http://www.menafn.com/menafn/2bd09f94-d4e9-440b-8319-458568887232/B...
(When units arrived at the scene, they found 10 cars of a 90-car train had derailed, but there was no evidence of a leak, the department said.)
February 11, 2013 - Monday - Signawa,MI - Freight train derailment
http://www.mlive.com/news/saginaw/index.ssf/2013/02/train_derailmen...
(A train derailment near South Center and Clunie has scattered grain along the side of train tracks in Saginaw Township.)
February 04, 2013 - Sunday - Fairbury, MO. - Freight train derailment
http://www.coalguru.com/north_america/41_coal_cars_jump_tracks_near...
(The Union Pacific Railroad is cleaning up 41 train coal cars that derailed early Sunday morning southeast of Fairbury.)
February 03, 2013 - Saturday - Bladenboro, N.C. - Chemical train derailment
http://abclocal.go.com/wtvd/story?section=news/local&id=8978520
(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.)
February 02, 2013 - Friday - Bellwood, Chicago, Il. - Chemical train derailment
http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=news/local&id=8979101
(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.)
January 31, 2013 - Thursday - Bargoed, Wales - train derailment
http://www.itv.com/news/wales/story/2013-01-30/train-derails-near-bargoed/
(Work to clear the railway line between Rhymney and Barry has been completed. It's after trees and debris on the line caused a derailment yesterday morning.)
January 23, 2013 - Wednesday - Williford, Ark. - train derailment
http://articles.ky3.com/2013-01-23/train-derailment_36511747
( Burlington Northern Santa Fe's main rail line between Springfield and Memphis is blocked because of a derailment. BNSF says almost 30 cars of a train came off the track near Williford.)
January 15, 2013 - Tuesday - Badrashin, Egypt - military train derailment http://www.china.org.cn/world/2013-01/15/content_27688684.htm
( The train carrying young recruits was traveling from south Egypt to Cairo and derailed in the Giza neighborhood of Badrashin.)
January 14, 2013 - Monday - Soda Springs, Idaho - freight train derailment
http://www.idahostatejournal.com/news/local/article_fae2d3e2-5e88-11e2-bed2-0019bb2963f4.html
(A freight train has derailed and continues to block Highway 34.)
January 12, 2013 - Saturday - Assam, New Delhi - train derailment
http://netindian.in/news/2013/01/12/00022792/passenger-train-derails-assam-one-person-injured
(Four coaches of the 15693 down Silchar-bound Barak Valley Express derailed between Milongdisa and Harangajao stations in the Dima Hasao Hills area of Assam today, official sources said.)
January 12, 2013 - Saturday - Irkutsk, Moscow - Coal train derailment
http://en.ria.ru/russia/20130112/178728604/Two_Die_in_Trans-Siberian_Train_Crash__.html
( Two train drivers were killed in Russia's Irkutsk region on Saturday when their train carrying coal was derailed, the local Emergencies Ministry said.)
January 11, 2013 - Friday - Imperial, Mo. - train derailment
http://www.ksdk.com/news/article/356643/3/Imperial-train-derailment-houses-evacuated
(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.)
January 10, 2013 - Thursday - Geneva, Switzerland - trains collide and derailment
http://world.time.com/2013/01/10/2-trains-collide-in-switzerland-injuries-reported/
(Two passenger trains collided Thursday morning near a station in northern Switzerland, injuring 17 people, police said. A locomotive for one of the trains — a double-decker passenger train — derailed.)
09年1月,西南2013 -周三MaukuAuckland, NZ - freight train derailment
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10858114
(The accident happened early today on the Glenbrook Steel Mill access line. Because the train derailed on a branch line, it wouldn't cause any delays to normal services.)
January 05, 2013 - Saturday - Reno Nevada - grain freight derailment
http://www.rgj.com/article/20130105/NEWS/130105001/20-cars-Union-Pacific-grain-train-headed-Roseville-derail-near-Sulfur-no-injuries?nclick_check=1
(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.)
August 04, 2013 - Sunday - Louisiana - chemical train derailment
http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2013/08/train_derails_in_north_louisia.html
(Of the 23 cars that derailed Sunday, 14 contained "regulated substances" that are harmful or toxic. The train was traveling between Lake Charles and the New Orleans area.)
August 03, 2013 - Saturday - Bangkok, Thailand - Khao Pleung tunnel train derailment
http://news.asiaone.com/news/asia/chiang-mai-bound-train-derails-tunnel-0
( Six carriages of a Chiang Mai-bound express train derailed in an over-100-year-old tunnel in Uttaradit's Muang district, in the 382-metre-long Khao Pleung tunnel, located between Ban Pang Ton Phueng in Uttaradit and Huai Rai Station in Den Chai, Phrae.)
July 29, 2013 - Monday Evening - 2 Swiss trains collide
http://in.news.yahoo.com/swiss-train-crash-injures-40-183531434.html
July 28, 2013 - Sunday - Southwest, Baltimore - Freight train derailment
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/baltimore-city/south-baltimore/bs-md-csx-derailment-20130729,0,2825638.story
(Eight cars of the CSX train derailed about 10:15 a.m. Sunday in Southwest Baltimore near Hollins Ferry Road and Paca Street. The train that was traveling from hamlet, N.C., to Selkirk, N.Y., with 118 cars, was pulled by two diesel locomotives.)
July 26, 2913 - Friday - Alberta, Canada Lloyminster train derailment
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2013/07/27/lloydminster-train-derailment-oil-tanker-cars_n_3664306.html
(Canadian Pacific (TSX:CP) spokesman Ed Greenberg says a locomotive and seven cars carrying oil left the tracks Friday afternoon in the city that straddles the Alberta-Saskatchewan boundary.)
July 25, 2013 - Thursday - Tampa, Florida - Chemical Freight train derailment
http://www.wtsp.com/news/breaking/article/326794/20/Tampa-Fire-Rescue-on-the-scene-of-a-train-derailment-at-the-Port-of-Tampa
(The train was coming into the port at 1 a.m. when it left the tracks, pulling twelve cars off of the rails -- and sending ten of those completely onto their sides, according to Tampa Fire Rescue spokesman Capt. Lonnie Benniefield.)
July 24, 2013 - Wednesday - Santiago de Compostela Madrid, Spain train derailment
http://www.sott.net/article/264305-Spain-train-crash-reports-of-at-least-77-killed-130-injured
(an explosion reported before seeing the derailed train.)
July 19, 2013 - Friday - Bronx, New York - Freight train derailment
http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=news/local/new_york&id=9177872
(A freight train hauling garbage derailed between stations Thursday night. The damage was so substantial that only one of two tracks in the area is back in service on Monday.)
July 18, 2013 - Thursday - Benbrook, Texas - Freight train derailment
http://www.myfoxdfw.com/story/22872976/train-derails-in-benbrook
(Benbrook Fire Chief Tommy Davis said the accident happened around 5:30 a.m. Thursday on the line that runs along Aledo Road. A locomotive and five rail cars came off the track.
The 45-car train en-route to Dallas from Tucson, Ariz. had been carrying mostly paper products and not any hazardous materials.)
July 18, 2013 - Thursday - West of Scottsville, West Virgina - Coal train derailment
http://www.nbc29.com/story/22879018/train-derails-in-southern-albemarle
(Twenty-nine cars hauling loads of coal went off the tracks near Hatton Grange Farm along the James River west of Scottsville.)
July 17, 2013 - Wednesday - Buffalo, New York - Chemical train derailment
http://www.wgrz.com/news/article/220151/37/Train-Derails-on-Buffalo...
(Managers at CSX Rail say three cars on a train jumped the tracks on an overpass at William and Fillmore in Buffalo. The train was heading from Indianapolis to Albany.)
July 17, 2013 - Wednesday - Northern Thailand - train derailment
http://www.independent.ie/world-news/tourists-hurt-as-thai-train-derails-29427025.html
July 16, 2013 - Tuesday - Hays, Kansas - Chemical train derailment
http://www.kwch.com/news/kwch-news-jam-train-derails-and-catches-fire-east-of-hays-20130716,0,1057470.story
(Authorities in Hays say a dozen train cars derailed and caught fire at 8th and Vine overnight. Those cars are carrying general cargo and freight. The train was also hauling 20 cars of ethanol, but officials say those are still upright and on the tracks. Two of the three locomotives caught fire, causing a massive fire which crews are still on the scene battling.)
July 14, 2013 - Sunday - Millsboro, Delaware - Stone Freight train derailment
http://www.delawareonline.com/article/20130714/NEWS01/307140057/Norfolk-Southern-freight-train-derails-north-Millsboro?nclick_check=1
(About 70 train cars hauling stone were being pulled by two locomotives and were traveling south on the tracks in a wooded area north of Millsboro. 15 of the cars were forced off the tracks and spilled stone as a result of the derailment.)
July 12, 2013 - Friday - Bretigny-sur-Orge, South of Paris - train derailment
http://www.dw.de/passenger-train-derails-near-paris-fatalities/a-16948503
(The ministry was quoted as saying that the train approached the railway station at high speed, before being separated into two parts for an unknown reason. )
July 10, 2013 - Wednesday - La Grande, Oregon - Chemical train derailment
http://www.statesmanjournal.com/article/20130710/UPDATE/130710004/Train-derails-near-La-Grande-no-injuries-hazardous-spills?nclick_check=1
(A total of 27 rail cars derailed on Union Pacific tracks north of Highway 203 east of La Grande near Hot Lake just before 2 a.m. today, but emergency responders said no significantly hazardous material leaked and no injuries were reported.)
July 08, 2013 - Monday - Brandywine Creek, Pennsylvania - Steel freight train derailment
http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story?section=news/local&id=9165803
(Emergency crews were on the scene of a freight train derailment in Chester County. It happened after 3:00 p.m. Monday on the tracks near the 900 block of Wagon Town Road in Valley Township. The derailment sent two railcars plunging into the Brandywine Creek. A locomotive also jumped the tracks.)
July 08, 2013 - Monday - White Cloud, Michigan - train derailment
http://www.wzzm13.com/news/article/260909/2/Train-derails-north-of-White-Cloud
(The train derailed north of White Cloud, between Monroe Street and Foss Avenue.
No one was injured in the derailment and it did not effect road traffic. However, it will take some time for Marquette Rail to move the train cars and repair the tracks.)
July 07, 2013 - Sunday - Russia’s Krasnodar Region - train derailment
http://en.ria.ru/russia/20130707/182109212/Train-Derails-Injuring-70-in-Southern-Russia--Official.html
(The locomotive and several cars of the train, which connects Novossibirsk in Siberia to Adler on the shores of the Black Sea, went off the rails and slid sideways. Interfax news agency quoted investigators as saying that 11 train cars derailed in the crash, five overturning. The driver braked sharply after noticing that part of the tracks in Russia's southern Krasnodar region was deformed.)
July 06, 2013 - Saturday - Farnham, Canada - Lac-Magantic train derailment & mega explosion
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2013/07/25/lac-megantic-mma-police-raid_n_3652994.ht
(a runaway freight train - after conductor parked & locked train)
July 03, 2013 - Wednesday - Veazia, Maine - Freight train derailment
http://www.sunjournal.com/news/0001/11/30/four-tanker-cars-derail-veazie-no-leaks-reported/1388427
(Four tankers in a 92-car Pan Am Railways train derailed Wednesday morning near the Penobscot River.
It was a mixed train, with paper, wallboard, scrap metal, wood, a couple sand cars.)
July 03, 2013 - Wednesday - Barker, New York - Freight train derailment
http://www.wbng.com/news/local/Train-derails-in-Barker--214205931.html
(The train was traveling on the New York, Susquehanna and Western Railway - six cars toppled over.)
June 30, 2012 - Sunday - Coshocton, Ohio - Coal Freight train derailment
http://www.coalguru.com/north_america/coal_train_bound_for_coshocton_derails_near_veterans/10784
(The 54 car train, loaded in Burr Oak Mine in Glouster, was bound for American Electric Power in Coshocton when the last seven cars went off the track at about 5:50 am.)
June 28, 2013 - Friday - Wilminton, North Carolina - Chemical Freight train derailment
http://www.wwaytv3.com/2013/06/28/work-continues-to-clear-derailed-...
( A train carrying flammable cargo is derailed in Wilmington's Love Grove community, blocking people who live there from getting in and out of the neighborhood. Dispatchers say the train ran off the tracks in the 1200 block of Love Grove.)
June 27, 2013 - Thursday - Mohawk Valley, New York - Freight train derailment
http://www.timesunion.com/local/article/Train-derails-in-Montgomery-County-4625348.php
(Two trains coming from opposite directions sideswiped each other for an as yet undetermined reason at about 8 a.m.. A conductor and engineer suffered minor injuries at the scene, which left several rail cars carrying dry goods, lumber, garbage and other cargo sheared and crumpled, officials said.)
June 27, 2013 - Thursday - Calgary, Canada - Bonnybrook bridge train derailment
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2013/06/27/deerfoot-trail-closed-calgary-train-derailment_n_3510585.html
(The train derailed after a section of the bridge dropped two feet (60 centimeters) Thursday morning, the bridge is not in the water but is slowly sagging into the river.)
June 25, 2013 - Monday - Kaduna, India - Lagos bound Passenger train derailment
http://www.dailytimes.com.ng/article/lagos-bound-train-derails-kaduna-injures-four
(At least four people were injured on Monday when a Lagos bound locomotive passenger train from Kano derailed at Kakawu area, in Chikun local government area of Kaduna State. The accident which occurred at about 4pm local time, affected four couches of the train when it fell off from the rail line.)
June 22,2013 - Saturday - Lee County, Kentucky - Passenger train derailment
http://www.lex18.com/news/train-derails-in-lee-county
(It happened about 3 miles east of Beattyville. Two people on board the train were not hurt. The train cars were dragged off the rails along the tracks for miles, damaging a large portion of the track, including asphalt wooden sections of the track.)
June 19, 2013 - Tuesday- Desoto, Illinois - Coal train derailment
http://thesouthern.com/news/local/communities/jackson/coal-train-derails-in-desoto-late-tuesday/article_fa498be4-d8d9-11e2-92df-0019bb2963f4.html
( Seven coal cars from a Union Pacific train derailed Tuesday night about 1 1/2 miles east of De Soto near the Illinois 149 and Mine Road intersection.)
June 19, 2013 - Tuesday - Frionia, Texas - Freight train derailment
http://journalstar.com/ap/otherstate/high-wind-derails-bnsf-cars/ar...
(德州狭长地形的铁路已经重新开放fter storms packing winds strong enough to form a tornado overturned more than 40 BNSF Railway cars.)
June 18, 2013 - Monday - East River Tunnel, New York - Passenger train derailment
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/lirr-derailment-snarls-monday-commute-article-1.1375261?localLinksEnabled=false
(An eastbound Long Island Rail Road train carrying thousands of passengers derailed in an East River tunnel during the Monday evening rush, causing a nightmare for commuters.No injuries were reported in the 6:09 p.m. derailment, but service on the four biggest LIRR branches out of Penn Station was reduced to just one train per hour.)
June 11, 2013 - Tuesday - Norwood, Cincinnati - Freight train derailment
http://news.cincinnati.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/AB/20130610/N...
(At around 8:20 p.m. crews were called to Forest and Harris avenues to investigate after the train knocked down an electrical tower. That area is just south of the Norwood Lateral, near Waterworks Park. Five cars from an Indiana & Ohio Railway train derailed and knocked over a major power transmission tower. The tower, which he estimated to be about 125 feet tall, toppled onto the Zumbiel Company building.)
June 08, 2013 - Monday - Baltimore, MD - Freight train derailment
http://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2013/06/07/another-train-derails-in-baltimore-county-no-injuries-reported/
(Fire officials confirm ten cars derailed Friday near Hammonds Ferry Road and Elizabeth Road. Four of those cars turned onto their side. The train was carrying trash from New York to Virginia on a route shared with MARC trains.)
June 03, 2013 - Monday - Wheatland, New York - Rock Salt Freight train derailment
http://www.democratandchronicle.com/article/20130604/NEWS01/306040018/train-derailment-in-wheatland?gcheck=1&nclick_check=1
(No one was injured in the derailment, which occurred about 9:15 pm Monday just east of the crossing at Wheatland Center Road in Wheatland. But 20 hopper cars filled with salt from the American Rock Salt mine in Groveland left the rails.)
June 02, 2013 - Sunday - Sunbury, Ont. Canada - Wahnapitae River train derailment
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2013/06/02/ontario-sudbury-train-derailment-wanup.html
( incident is the result of an unexpected and catastrophic wheel bearing failure - Canadian Pacific has a network of electronic inspection systems that didn't detect any problem with the rail car wheels or bearings prior to the derailment.)
May 29, 2013 - Wednesday - Lagos, Nigeria - train derailment
http://pmnewsnigeria.com/2013/05/29/train-derails-in-lagos/
(A train towing another train derailed Wednesday at Agege, Lagos, southwest Nigeria.)
May 29, 2013 - Wednesday - Ogden, Wyoming - Freight train derailment
http://fox13now.com/2013/05/29/train-derails-in-ogden/
(At least five Union Pacific rail cars derailed Wednesday around 8:30 a.m. in Ogden. The rail cars were carrying new automobiles from Cheyenne, Wyoming to Salt Lake City.)
May 29, 2013 - Wednesday - Morningside Heights, New York - Passenger train derailment
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/1-train-derails-stranding-passe...
(数百名乘客被困ltering subway cars during rush hour after the No. 1 train derailed in Morningside Heights. Two wheels on the lead subway car jumped their track about 5:50 p.m., disabling the southbound train a few blocks south of the above-ground W. 125th St. station.)
May 28, 2013 - Tuesday - Baltimore, Md. - White Marsh train derailment
http://globalnews.ca/news/595867/train-derailment-causes-explosion-in-baltimore/
(A cargo train derailed Tuesday in a Baltimore suburb and an explosion could be heard for miles, collapsing nearby buildings and setting them on fire, officials and witnesses said. )
May 25, 2013 - Saturday - Chaffee, Mo. - Rockview train derailment
http://www.dailystatesman.com/story/1972964.html
(The collision occurred at about 2:30 a.m. Saturday when a Union Pacific train hit a Burlington Northern Santa Fe train at a rail intersection near Route M and County Road 210. Derailed rail cars then hit columns supporting the Highway M overpass, causing it to buckle. )
May 21, 2013 - Tuesday - Charles City, Iowa - Freight train derailment
http://www.postbulletin.com/news/local/flood-derails-train-charles-...
(Crews work at the scene of a Canadian Pacific derailment near Charles City, Iowa. No injuries were reported. The derailment was caused by a washed-out rail line caused by flooding in the area.)
May 21, 2013 - Tuesday - Canada: Train derailment in Saskatchewan - Canadian Pacific (CP) freight train jumped the tracks in southeastern Saskatchewan, spilling more than 91,000 liters of oil, marking at least the third derailment involving CP trains in recent months. On the same day, a gigantic sinkhole opened on HW744 in Alberta, Canada (Source) and a construction crane collapsed on a passing car in Gallatin, Tennessee.
May 20, 2013 - Monday - Mississippi: Train derailment at U.S. 90 in Pascagoula - Train derailed just south of US 90. On the same day in New Jersey, an indoor sinkhole swallowed a forklift and its operator (Source)? AND, also on the same day on the other side of the world in China, a massive sinkhole opened in Shenzhen killing five workers. Source.
May 19, 2013 - Sunday - Illinois: Amtrak train derailment in Chicago - Amtrak train leaving New Orleans derailed near Chicago's Union Station Sunday morning. CTA workers removed a beam from a damaged part of the tracks.
May 17, 2013 - Friday- Connecticut: Metro-North commuter train derails
http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/17/images-from-connecticut-train-derailment/?ref=us&_r=0
(Commuter train derailed in Connecticut, striking another commuter train between Bridgeport and Fairfield, about 50 miles northeast of New York City. A fractured segment of track was found.)
May 17, 2013 - Friday - China: Train derails in Tin Shui Wai
On the same date, a huge sinkhole opened in Benton County, Arkansas. On May 16, construction cranes topple in New Zealand and India, and a school bus in Texas fell into a sinkhole in Austin.
May 09, 2013 -Thursday - Illinois: Chicago CTA Red Line “L” car derails - Car on southbound CTA train derailed. On May 8, construction cranes toppled in Switzerland, Norway, and China. On May 6 and 4, construction cranes also toppled in New York and Ohio (two workers killed in Ohio).
May 9, 2013 - Thursday - Russia: Freight train derails, explodes, hurls rail car into building - On the same date as the Chicago derailment, a Russian train - carrying sodium chloride, gasoline, fuel oil, and propane - derailed with a tremendous exploxion that hurled a rail car into the sixth-floor wall of a residential block."
May 07, 2013 - Tuesday - Passumpsic River, Vermont - Freight train derailment
http://www.wcax.com/story/22178909/train-derails-into-the-passumpsi...
(Three 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.)
May 4 - 2013 - Saturday- Ghent, Belgium - Freight train derailment
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2319412/Hundreds-evacuated-homes-Belgium-freight-train-carrying-chemicals-crashes-explodes.html
(Freight train carrying flammable chemicals derailed and exploded near Ghent killing two and causing a major fire near the city of Ghent.)
May 03, 2013 - Friday - Lytle, Texas - Freight train derailment
http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local_news/article/Train-derails-in-downtown-Lytle-4486119.php
(A defect on the bottom of a metal bar that holds two sections of rail together caused a 26-car train derailment here Friday, a railroad official said.)
May 02, 2013 - Thursday - Sagninaw, IL - Freight train derailment
http://www.wnem.com/story/22134299/train-derails-in-saginaw-several-streets-blocked
(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.)
May 01, 2013 - Wednesday - Colebrook, Tamania - Freight train derailment
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-05-01/more-delays-as-another-train-...
( Photo: It is the sixth train derailment this year.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.)
May 01, 2013 - Wednesday - Helena, Texas - Freight train derailment
http://helenair.com/news/local/train-derails-outside-helena/article...
(A freight train derailed on the outskirts of town early Tuesday morning, scattering train cars down an embankment and on top of one another. Thirteen empty cars derailed and another 12 cars parked on a siding — including three that contained corrosive material known as Piperidine — were damaged.)
May 01, 2013 - Wednesday- New Mexico, USA: Two trains derail in same location within weeks of each other. (Source)
April 29, 2013 - Monday - Saskatchewan, Canada - Passenger train derailment
http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/04/29/amazingly-no-one-hurt-after-train-derails-in-saskatchewan/
(Eleven people on a VIA Rail train are safe after a derailment in eastern Saskatchewan that appears to have been caused by water.)
April 21, 2013 - Sunday - Bridgeport, Wyoming - Freight train derailment
http://www.starherald.com/news/local_news/train-derails-in-bridgeport/article_c6908c8e-aa8b-11e2-bcf6-001a4bcf887a.html
(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 but no injuries occurred.)
April 14, 2013 - Sunday - Oakland, California - Passenger Train derailment
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/train-carrying-nearly-200-pe...
( Amtrak says a passenger train carrying nearly 200 people has derailed near Oakland, but there were no injuries. 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.)
April 10, 2013 - Wednesday - Arakkonam, India - Passenger train derailment
http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/one-killed-as-trai...
(One passenger was killed and 33 others, including six women and two children, were injured when 12 bogies of Muzaffarpur-Yesvantpur Express (no.15228) derailed at the Chitheri railway station, eight km from here on Wednesday morning.)
April 08, 2013 - Monday - Perugia in Umbria region, Italy - Passenger train derailment
http://www.adnkronos.com/IGN/Aki/English/Security/Italy-Landslide-d...
(A total of 25 people were injured Monday morning when two compartments of a passenger train veered off the tracks in central Italy due to a landslide, local media said. 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.)
April 07, 2013 - Sunday - Everette, Washington - Passenger train derailment
http://wtvr.com/2013/04/07/amtrak-train-derails-after-mudslide/
(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.)
April 05, 2013 - Friday - Cabezon de la Sal, Spain - Passenger train derailment
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/train-derails-spain-r...
( 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.
March 19, 2013 - Monday - Queens, New York - Passenger train derailmenthttp://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/19/nyregion/lirr-train-derails-near-...
(A Long Island Rail Road train derailed Monday night west of Jamaica Station in the vicinity of Forest Hills, Queens, causing potential delays for the morning commute, but no injuries, the authorities said. The train, which was carrying no passengers, was heading west toward Pennsylvania Station just before 9 p.m. when the incident occurred. The cause was under investigation.)
March 13, 2013 - Wednesday - Bucksport, Maine - Freight train derailment
http://www.wabi.tv/news/38414/train-derails-in-close-to-paper-mill
(A train went off the tracks in Bucksport. Cars on a Pan Am Railways train derailed near the Verso Paper Mill.)
March 07, 2013 - Thursday - Mattawamkeag, Maine - Freight train derailment
http://bangordailynews.com/2013/03/07/news/penobscot/freight-train-...
(Firefighters said one of the train’s personnel reported that the first sign of trouble was a sudden increase of speed on the engine. A 14-car freight train pulling 13 full crude oil tankers apparently spilled only three gallons of oil when it derailed Thursday yards from the Penobscot River. The train apparently went off the tracks, with most of its cars but not its engine landing on their sides.)
March 05, 2013 - Tuesday - Swartz, Louisiana - Freight train derailment
http://www.thenewsstar.com/videonetwork/2205111899001/Train-derails...
(Louisiana State Police are at the scene of a train derailment in the Swartz community where 10 Union Pacific railcars overturned early Tuesday morning. The train consisted of three locomotives and 136 railcars. All of the railcars were carrying coal.)
March 05, 2013 - Tuesday - Gilette, Washington - Freight train derailment
http://www.gillettenewsrecord.com/stories/BNSF-train-derails-east-o...
(A train belonging to BNSF Railway derailed about 5 miles east of Gillette at 6.55 a.m. Tuesday.
The train was heading from Pasco, Wash., to Lincoln, Neb. Ten rail cars that derailed were designed for hauling cars. They were empty.)
March 05, 2013 - Tuesday - Victoria, Canada - Freight train derailment
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-03-05/freight-train-derails-in-stat...
(Crash investigators started examining the site to determine how 14 carriages carrying grain came off the tracks near Pyramid Hill, north of Bendigo.)
March 03, 2013 - Saturday - Sterling, Colorado - Freight train derailment
http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/local-news/empty-train-derails...
(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.)
February 28, 2013 - Monday - Ritter, Ohio - Freight train derailment
http://kiwaradio.com/local-news/another-train-derails-near-ritter/
(Union Pacific spokesperson Raquel Espinoza says that 19 cars derailed from a southbound train about 2:35 this morning (2/28). She says four cars released soybean oil and three released soybean meal, all of which will be picked up. )
February 27, 2013 - Sunday - Lilbourn, Missouri - Freight train derailment
http://www.wpsdlocal6.com/home/ticker/Coal-train-derails-in-New-Mad...
(A train has derailed in the New Madrid County, Missouri, town of Lilbourn. The derailment happened just after 5 a.m. with no reported injuries.)
February 22, 2013 - Tuesday - Jackson, Mississippi - Freight train derailment
http://www.wlox.com/story/21308217/canadian-national-railway-train-...
(Eighteen Canadian National Railway train cars derailed off of the tracks in Jackson Friday morning,
17 of the derailed cars were filled with grain and the other was empty.)
February 22, 2013 - Tuesday - Leeds, Maine - Freight train derailment
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/2013/02/22/train-der...
( Authorities say five cars of a freight train carrying chicken feed have derailed in the town of Leeds, Maine, and they remained upright during the accident.)
February 21, 2013 - Monday - Springfield, Mass. - Chemical train derailment
http://www.cbs3springfield.com/story/21302475/train-delrailment-clo...
(A tanker car containing a flammable liquid chemical derailed on the train trestle over Route 5 at 6:09 Thursday night. The trestle crosses Route 5 a little north of the Memorial Avenue Rotary.)
February 21, 2013 - Monday - Baltimore, Maryland - Chemical train derailment
http://www.menafn.com/menafn/2bd09f94-d4e9-440b-8319-458568887232/B...
(When units arrived at the scene, they found 10 cars of a 90-car train had derailed, but there was no evidence of a leak, the department said.)
February 11, 2013 - Monday - Signawa,MI - Freight train derailment
http://www.mlive.com/news/saginaw/index.ssf/2013/02/train_derailmen...
(A train derailment near South Center and Clunie has scattered grain along the side of train tracks in Saginaw Township.)
February 04, 2013 - Sunday - Fairbury, MO. - Freight train derailment
http://www.coalguru.com/north_america/41_coal_cars_jump_tracks_near...
(The Union Pacific Railroad is cleaning up 41 train coal cars that derailed early Sunday morning southeast of Fairbury.)
February 03, 2013 - Saturday - Bladenboro, N.C. - Chemical train derailment
http://abclocal.go.com/wtvd/story?section=news/local&id=8978520
(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.)
February 02, 2013 - Friday - Bellwood, Chicago, Il. - Chemical train derailment
http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=news/local&id=8979101
(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.)
January 31, 2013 - Thursday - Bargoed, Wales - train derailment
http://www.itv.com/news/wales/story/2013-01-30/train-derails-near-bargoed/
(Work to clear the railway line between Rhymney and Barry has been completed. It's after trees and debris on the line caused a derailment yesterday morning.)
January 23, 2013 - Wednesday - Williford, Ark. - train derailment
http://articles.ky3.com/2013-01-23/train-derailment_36511747
( Burlington Northern Santa Fe's main rail line between Springfield and Memphis is blocked because of a derailment. BNSF says almost 30 cars of a train came off the track near Williford.)
January 15, 2013 - Tuesday - Badrashin, Egypt - military train derailment http://www.china.org.cn/world/2013-01/15/content_27688684.htm
( The train carrying young recruits was traveling from south Egypt to Cairo and derailed in the Giza neighborhood of Badrashin.)
January 14, 2013 - Monday - Soda Springs, Idaho - freight train derailment
http://www.idahostatejournal.com/news/local/article_fae2d3e2-5e88-11e2-bed2-0019bb2963f4.html
(A freight train has derailed and continues to block Highway 34.)
January 12, 2013 - Saturday - Assam, New Delhi - train derailment
http://netindian.in/news/2013/01/12/00022792/passenger-train-derails-assam-one-person-injured
(Four coaches of the 15693 down Silchar-bound Barak Valley Express derailed between Milongdisa and Harangajao stations in the Dima Hasao Hills area of Assam today, official sources said.)
January 12, 2013 - Saturday - Irkutsk, Moscow - Coal train derailment
http://en.ria.ru/russia/20130112/178728604/Two_Die_in_Trans-Siberian_Train_Crash__.html
( Two train drivers were killed in Russia's Irkutsk region on Saturday when their train carrying coal was derailed, the local Emergencies Ministry said.)
January 11, 2013 - Friday - Imperial, Mo. - train derailment
http://www.ksdk.com/news/article/356643/3/Imperial-train-derailment-houses-evacuated
(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.)
January 10, 2013 - Thursday - Geneva, Switzerland - trains collide and derailment
http://world.time.com/2013/01/10/2-trains-collide-in-switzerland-injuries-reported/
(Two passenger trains collided Thursday morning near a station in northern Switzerland, injuring 17 people, police said. A locomotive for one of the trains — a double-decker passenger train — derailed.)
09年1月,西南2013 -周三MaukuAuckland, NZ - freight train derailment
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10858114
(The accident happened early today on the Glenbrook Steel Mill access line. Because the train derailed on a branch line, it wouldn't cause any delays to normal services.)
January 05, 2013 - Saturday - Reno Nevada - grain freight derailment
http://www.rgj.com/article/20130105/NEWS/130105001/20-cars-Union-Pacific-grain-train-headed-Roseville-derail-near-Sulfur-no-injuries?nclick_check=1
(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.)
