Train derailments and explosions and chemical spills
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casper
The Living Force
"Investigators and Attorney suspect that to rail accident in February this year in Germany came as the switchman played games on the phone.
Investigators found out that Michael P. during his service on the day of the accident on February 9 turned on his cell phone and played online games. Played it is active even a few moments before the horrible crash. It is suspected that he is distracted from the proper performance of the job. It is suspected that it is therefore made the wrong assumptions and trains gave the wrong signals and pressed the wrong button which is why the driver did not hear warning."
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Investigators found out that Michael P. during his service on the day of the accident on February 9 turned on his cell phone and played online games. Played it is active even a few moments before the horrible crash. It is suspected that he is distracted from the proper performance of the job. It is suspected that it is therefore made the wrong assumptions and trains gave the wrong signals and pressed the wrong button which is why the driver did not hear warning."
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angelburst29
The Living Force
May 1, 2016 - Northeast Washington, D.C. Cargo train derailment
CSX train derails in Northeast D.C., possible hazardous leak
http://wtop.com/dc/2016/05/csx-train-derails-in-northeast-d-c-possible-hazardous-leak/
WASHINGTON –A CSX freight train has derailed near the Rhode Island Avenue Metro station Sunday morning leaving several cars overturned and a hazardous leak. Upwards of 10 cars derailed from a train bound for Hamlet, North Carolina, from Cumberland, Maryland, about 6:40 a.m., and emergency responders were working to contain a leak throughout the morning.
“CSX operations and hazardous materials personnel are working with first responders on the derailment this morning in Washington D.C.,” CSX said in a statement released about 8:45 a.m. “The safety of the community, first responders and CSX’s employees is our highest priority.”
The company said one derailed car is leaking sodium hydroxide, used primarily “to produce various household products including paper, soap and detergents.”
Rhode Island Avenue was still closed in both directions from 4th to 12th streets in Northeast as of 9:15 a.m. The Red Line’s Rhode Island Station is also closed. Metro said it would establish bus shuttle service between the NoMa and Brookland stations.
CSX released the following statement at 8:45 a.m. :
At 6:40 a.m. on May 1, a CSX train traveling from Cumberland, Md. to Hamlet, N.C. derailed approximately 10 cars near 9thStreet and Rhode Island Ave. near the Rhode Island Ave. Metro station. The CSX train had three locomotives and 175 total cars, including 94 loaded cars carrying mixed freight, and 81 empties. One derailed car is leaking sodium hydroxide, which is used to produce various household products including paper, soap and detergents. CSX is working with first responders to contain the released product.
We are grateful for the swift response from Washington D.C. first responders and other agencies. CSX is working closely with them on this incident.
CSX train derails in Northeast D.C., possible hazardous leak
http://wtop.com/dc/2016/05/csx-train-derails-in-northeast-d-c-possible-hazardous-leak/
WASHINGTON –A CSX freight train has derailed near the Rhode Island Avenue Metro station Sunday morning leaving several cars overturned and a hazardous leak. Upwards of 10 cars derailed from a train bound for Hamlet, North Carolina, from Cumberland, Maryland, about 6:40 a.m., and emergency responders were working to contain a leak throughout the morning.
“CSX operations and hazardous materials personnel are working with first responders on the derailment this morning in Washington D.C.,” CSX said in a statement released about 8:45 a.m. “The safety of the community, first responders and CSX’s employees is our highest priority.”
The company said one derailed car is leaking sodium hydroxide, used primarily “to produce various household products including paper, soap and detergents.”
Rhode Island Avenue was still closed in both directions from 4th to 12th streets in Northeast as of 9:15 a.m. The Red Line’s Rhode Island Station is also closed. Metro said it would establish bus shuttle service between the NoMa and Brookland stations.
CSX released the following statement at 8:45 a.m. :
At 6:40 a.m. on May 1, a CSX train traveling from Cumberland, Md. to Hamlet, N.C. derailed approximately 10 cars near 9thStreet and Rhode Island Ave. near the Rhode Island Ave. Metro station. The CSX train had three locomotives and 175 total cars, including 94 loaded cars carrying mixed freight, and 81 empties. One derailed car is leaking sodium hydroxide, which is used to produce various household products including paper, soap and detergents. CSX is working with first responders to contain the released product.
We are grateful for the swift response from Washington D.C. first responders and other agencies. CSX is working closely with them on this incident.
This is the only footage available with the clearest view of the incident.
Oregon Oil Train Derailment
Published on Jun 4, 2016
https://youtu.be/zuZCGTDzenY
Oregon Oil Train Derailment
Published on Jun 4, 2016
https://youtu.be/zuZCGTDzenY
angelburst29
The Living Force
Mon Jun 6, 2016 - Eastern Belgium Passenger and freight train collide
3 dead, 40 injured as passenger, freight trains crash in Belgium
http://presstv.com/Detail/2016/06/06/469121/-Belgium-train-crash-dead
“A train... carrying around 40 passengers crashed into the back of a freight train on the same track,” Belgian railways SNCB said in a statement late on Sunday.
The collision, which took place in the eastern municipality of Saint-Georges-Sur-Meuse, derailed two of the six carriages of the passenger train.
Local emergency services and reinforcements from the nearest city of Liege rushed to the site of the crash. A crisis center was set up at the scene.
Françis Dejon, the mayor of the Saint-Georges-Sur-Meuse district told Belga news agency that the impact of the crash was “very violent.”
Witnesses said the passenger train was travelling at high speed when it crashed turning the front carriage on its side.
Several passengers had to be extracted from the wreckage.
3 dead, 40 injured as passenger, freight trains crash in Belgium
http://presstv.com/Detail/2016/06/06/469121/-Belgium-train-crash-dead
“A train... carrying around 40 passengers crashed into the back of a freight train on the same track,” Belgian railways SNCB said in a statement late on Sunday.
The collision, which took place in the eastern municipality of Saint-Georges-Sur-Meuse, derailed two of the six carriages of the passenger train.
Local emergency services and reinforcements from the nearest city of Liege rushed to the site of the crash. A crisis center was set up at the scene.
Françis Dejon, the mayor of the Saint-Georges-Sur-Meuse district told Belga news agency that the impact of the crash was “very violent.”
Witnesses said the passenger train was travelling at high speed when it crashed turning the front carriage on its side.
Several passengers had to be extracted from the wreckage.
angelburst29
The Living Force
Five people, including three children, have been killed in the US State of Colorado after their van collided with an Amtrak train, police say.
Train crash kills 5 people in Colorado
http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2016/06/27/472422/Amtrack-Colorado--Chicago--train-crash-US
The incident happened on Sunday morning, when a Chrysler vehicle was struck by the train near Trinidad, the Colorado State Patrol said in a statement.
Investigators believe failing to yield to the train is the main factor behind the five deaths.
The van’s driver and three of its six passengers were pronounced dead at the scene of the crash while the fifth passenger died at a hospital.
Colorado police also said that a 4-year-old girl who had sustained serious injuries was flown to a nearby children’s hospital as the only survivor.
The identities of the passengers were not immediately released as police were still investigating the cause of the accident and had to notify the families of the victims first.
According to an Amtrak spokesman, more than 280 passengers were on board the train at the time of the crash but no one was injured.
The Southwest Chief train, which travels between Chicago and Los Angeles, was damaged and crews had to make repairs before it could travel again at around 5 p.m.
5 family members killed in Amtrak crash near Trinidad were going to church, cousin says (Video)
http://www.denverpost.com/2016/06/27/colorado-amtrak-train-crash-family-killed/
The five people, including three young children, killed when their minivan was struck Sunday afternoon by an Amtrak train in southern Colorado were a family heading to church, according to the cousin of one of the victims.
Keith Schlabach, the cousin of Christina Miller, said she was with her husband, Steve, and their four girls when they died in the collision about 3 miles north of Trinidad.
“We were at church and when they didn’t show up for church, we were worried about what was going on,” Schlabach said Monday morning. “We thought they were broken down or something. One of the other guys was driving back from church toward Steve’s house to see what happened, and then he got to the tracks.”
Schlabach said the route the Millers normally took to Trinidad Christian Church, an unincorporated congregation, crossed the train tracks.
The Colorado State Patrol on Monday formally identified the Millers as the victims in the crash. Stephen Miller, 32, was behind the wheel of the family’s 2005 Chrysler Town & Country minivan with his wife, 33-year-old Christine Miller, in the passenger seat.
Their daughters, a 6-year-old, a 2-year-old and an 8-month-old, died in the crash, according to Schlabach and authorities. A GoFundMe page created to fund the family members’ funeral identified the daughters’ names, respectively, as Abigail, Kathryn and Ellianna.
A fourth daughter, 4-year-old Heidi, was seriously hurt in the collision and transported by helicopter to Children’s Hospital Colorado. Family said she was stable Monday morning.
Investigators say the minivan was northbound on Las Animas County Road 32 when it failed to yield right of way to the Amtrak train — a Los Angeles-bound Southwest Chief — which was traveling westbound. The front of the train collided with the right side of the Chrysler.
The crossing does not have gates or warning lights and is marked by just four crossbuck signs, according to authorities.
After impact, the Chrysler was pushed westbound on the railroad tracks till the train came to a stop, authorities say. The passengers and crew members aboard the train were not injured.
“Steve was very likable,” Schlabach said. “He was very outgoing. Everybody got along with Steve. He’s just that kind of guy. He really liked reaching out to people — reaching out to people and making friends.”
The Southwest Chief has been involved in at least one other high-profile incident with a vehicle in recent months.
Investigators blamed a March derailment of a Southwest Chief train in Kansas that injured more than two dozen people on damage to track that was traced to a grain truck. The Associated Press reported a National Transportation Safety Board member said the truck’s impact shifted the train tracks 12 to 14 inches.
On May 31, the driver of a pickup truck was cited for failing to obey a railroad crossing after investigators say he drove into the path of Amtrak’s California Zephyr, the rail carrier’s other route through Colorado, in Glenwood Springs.
The driver, 40-year-old Ever Vega Vega, had only minor injuries after that crash.
Train crash kills 5 people in Colorado
http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2016/06/27/472422/Amtrack-Colorado--Chicago--train-crash-US
The incident happened on Sunday morning, when a Chrysler vehicle was struck by the train near Trinidad, the Colorado State Patrol said in a statement.
Investigators believe failing to yield to the train is the main factor behind the five deaths.
The van’s driver and three of its six passengers were pronounced dead at the scene of the crash while the fifth passenger died at a hospital.
Colorado police also said that a 4-year-old girl who had sustained serious injuries was flown to a nearby children’s hospital as the only survivor.
The identities of the passengers were not immediately released as police were still investigating the cause of the accident and had to notify the families of the victims first.
According to an Amtrak spokesman, more than 280 passengers were on board the train at the time of the crash but no one was injured.
The Southwest Chief train, which travels between Chicago and Los Angeles, was damaged and crews had to make repairs before it could travel again at around 5 p.m.
5 family members killed in Amtrak crash near Trinidad were going to church, cousin says (Video)
http://www.denverpost.com/2016/06/27/colorado-amtrak-train-crash-family-killed/
The five people, including three young children, killed when their minivan was struck Sunday afternoon by an Amtrak train in southern Colorado were a family heading to church, according to the cousin of one of the victims.
Keith Schlabach, the cousin of Christina Miller, said she was with her husband, Steve, and their four girls when they died in the collision about 3 miles north of Trinidad.
“We were at church and when they didn’t show up for church, we were worried about what was going on,” Schlabach said Monday morning. “We thought they were broken down or something. One of the other guys was driving back from church toward Steve’s house to see what happened, and then he got to the tracks.”
Schlabach said the route the Millers normally took to Trinidad Christian Church, an unincorporated congregation, crossed the train tracks.
The Colorado State Patrol on Monday formally identified the Millers as the victims in the crash. Stephen Miller, 32, was behind the wheel of the family’s 2005 Chrysler Town & Country minivan with his wife, 33-year-old Christine Miller, in the passenger seat.
Their daughters, a 6-year-old, a 2-year-old and an 8-month-old, died in the crash, according to Schlabach and authorities. A GoFundMe page created to fund the family members’ funeral identified the daughters’ names, respectively, as Abigail, Kathryn and Ellianna.
A fourth daughter, 4-year-old Heidi, was seriously hurt in the collision and transported by helicopter to Children’s Hospital Colorado. Family said she was stable Monday morning.
Investigators say the minivan was northbound on Las Animas County Road 32 when it failed to yield right of way to the Amtrak train — a Los Angeles-bound Southwest Chief — which was traveling westbound. The front of the train collided with the right side of the Chrysler.
The crossing does not have gates or warning lights and is marked by just four crossbuck signs, according to authorities.
After impact, the Chrysler was pushed westbound on the railroad tracks till the train came to a stop, authorities say. The passengers and crew members aboard the train were not injured.
“Steve was very likable,” Schlabach said. “He was very outgoing. Everybody got along with Steve. He’s just that kind of guy. He really liked reaching out to people — reaching out to people and making friends.”
The Southwest Chief has been involved in at least one other high-profile incident with a vehicle in recent months.
Investigators blamed a March derailment of a Southwest Chief train in Kansas that injured more than two dozen people on damage to track that was traced to a grain truck. The Associated Press reported a National Transportation Safety Board member said the truck’s impact shifted the train tracks 12 to 14 inches.
On May 31, the driver of a pickup truck was cited for failing to obey a railroad crossing after investigators say he drove into the path of Amtrak’s California Zephyr, the rail carrier’s other route through Colorado, in Glenwood Springs.
The driver, 40-year-old Ever Vega Vega, had only minor injuries after that crash.
http://indianexpress.com/article/world/world-news/taiwan-blast-taipei-train-station-2900022/ said:Taiwan blast: At least 21 injured in explosion in Taipei commuter train, say reports
Many people are believed to be injured in the blast.
By: Express Web Desk | New Delhi | Updated: July 7, 2016 11:21 pm
An explosion took place in a commuter train in Taiwan where 21 people are reportedly injured. More details awaited. (Source: CCTV news)
At least 21 people were reportedly injured in an explosion in a Taipei commuter train in Taiwan, according to preliminary reports. The blast took place at Songshan railway station in central Taipei. The cause of explosion is unknown. Police investigation is underway.
TAIPEI1 (Source: CCTV news)
Taiwan’s Central News Agency cited police as saying they suspected the tonight blast in the capital of Taipei had been caused by some kind of explosive in the train carriage.
The news agency cited the director of Taiwan’s National Police Agency, Chen Kuo-en, as saying late today that the explosive appeared to be 15 to 20 centimeters (6-8 inches) long and looked like a firecracker.
The report says the self-ruled island’s premier, Lin Chuan, ordered government agencies to form a team to investigate the blast.
The report cites unidentified witnesses as saying they heard a loud explosion before the train carriage burst into flames.
Taiwan has had its share of explosions, once in 2014 and the other in 2015. In 2014, a series of explosions occurred in Kaohsiung district following reports of gas leaks the night before. At least 32 people were killed and around 321 others were injured.
In 2015, a fire on a music stage spread into a crowd of spectators at a Formosa water park in Taiwan where more than 500 people were injured, fifteen of them died. The fire was sparked by an accidental explosion of an unknown powder near the stage in front of about 1,000 people.
angelburst29
The Living Force
A head-on collision of two passenger trains in Czech Republic early on Sunday has resulted in seven people receiving various injuries, local media reported.
Collision of Two Passenger Trains in Czech Republic Leaves Seven Injured
http://sputniknews.com/europe/20160710/1042727212/train-collision-czech-republic-leaves-injured.html
The incident happened 200 meters (218.7 yards) away from the train station in the town of Rotava, the Blesk newspaper reported.
Police announced that the case in suspected criminal negligence was opened as the exact cause had not been identified so far, according to the daily.
Travel control on the railroad where the collision occurred is carried out by private company Train Regio. Two trains pass at an hour interval on this railway line leading to Germany on Sunday.
Collision of Two Passenger Trains in Czech Republic Leaves Seven Injured
http://sputniknews.com/europe/20160710/1042727212/train-collision-czech-republic-leaves-injured.html
The incident happened 200 meters (218.7 yards) away from the train station in the town of Rotava, the Blesk newspaper reported.
Police announced that the case in suspected criminal negligence was opened as the exact cause had not been identified so far, according to the daily.
Travel control on the railroad where the collision occurred is carried out by private company Train Regio. Two trains pass at an hour interval on this railway line leading to Germany on Sunday.
casper
The Living Force
http://www.newstalk.com/At-least-four-killed-after-trains-crash-in-Italy--reports-89598
Two trains have crashed head on leaving at least a dozen dead in Italy,Police said the accident happened on a single stretch of track between the towns of Corato and Andria in the southern heel of the country.
https://youtu.be/byTBvnmwpFc
Two trains have crashed head on leaving at least a dozen dead in Italy,Police said the accident happened on a single stretch of track between the towns of Corato and Andria in the southern heel of the country.
https://youtu.be/byTBvnmwpFc
casper
The Living Force
Thank you for sharing Casper, what a tragedy, if i understood it correctly for the moment the authorities are perplexed how these 2 trains collided considering that they had to follow the same schedule they were following for years, to the authorities this thing seems strange.
casper
The Living Force
Re: At least 27 killed after trains crash head-on in Italy
Two passenger trains collided head-on Tuesday morning in a rural area of southeastern Italy, killing at least 27 people and injuring more than 50 others,both trains were traveling between 62 to 68 miles per hour (100 to 110 kilometers per hour).
http://www.wsj.com/articles/italy-train-crash-kills-at-least-12-1468323196
Two passenger trains collided head-on Tuesday morning in a rural area of southeastern Italy, killing at least 27 people and injuring more than 50 others,both trains were traveling between 62 to 68 miles per hour (100 to 110 kilometers per hour).
http://www.wsj.com/articles/italy-train-crash-kills-at-least-12-1468323196