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A train derailment that trapped and seriously injured a Denver rail worker happened when a railroad switch was in the wrong ...
A newly released investigation report found that a crossover switch caused train cars to derail and collide in Denver, ...
An imcorrectly lined switch led to an Aug. 5 collision between a BNSF Railway train and standing railcars at Denver’s ...
The annexed engravings are views of an improved railroad switch, invented by James M. Dick, of Buffalo, . ., who has taken measures to secure a patent for the same. Figure 1 is a plan or top view ...
DES MOINES (AP) - A misaligned switch leading into a rail yard caused a freight train to slam into some empty train cars in Bettendorf, killing the conductor and engineer, ...
Federal officials say a damaged track switch knocked a train carrying hazardous materials off the rails in Whatcom County last week.
A car of the Maya Train in Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula derailed after an automated switch tripped while the train was passing ...
TRAIN WRECKED AND BURNED; 14 KILLED; Open Switch on Wabash Line Traps Excursion Cars. TWO SCORE HURT IN WRECK Excursionists Were on the Way to St. Louis and Chicago -- New Yorkers Were Injured.
The switches being upgraded with the Atlanta airport Plane Train are 40 years old and allow trains to switch between the north and south directions.