Two Amtrak trains collided in Bridgeport, CT near the border with Faifield, CT on May 13, 2013 injuring dozens. Photo credit: Michelle McLoughlin / Reuters

According to the MTA, The accident happened around 6:10 p.m. Sunday, May 17, when a northbound train on the way to New Haven from New York derailed. A train traveling southbound on a parallel track then crashed into the derailed train. The accident site was near an overpass of the I-95 near Fairfield Ave. The crash site is near the border with Fairfield, CT and is just east of the Fairfield Metro Station.

Map shows location of train crash near the I-95 overpass on Fairfield Ave in Bridgeport, CT .

CNN reports that Investigators have ruled out foul play in the crash, which injured more than 70 people. As of Sunday, officials said that five people remain in the hospital, one in critical condition.

The MTA said that of four tracks in the area, two were already out of service for long-term repairs. The remaining two tracks that were affected by the accident received extensive infrastructure damage because of the collision.

The accident is considered one of the worst U.S. passenger rail accidents since 2008 when a head-on crash between a Union Pacific freight train and a Los Angeles Metrolink commuter train killed 25 people. A collision between two subway trains in Washington, D.C., in 2009 killed nine people and injured dozens.

The incident remains under investigation at this time.

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A passenger car on the CTA Red Line in Chicago, IL jumped the tracks on May 9 2013. One passenger had to be rescued by the Chicago Fire Department using an elevated bucket.

According to officials, the accident occurred Thursday morning, May 9, at 11:20 a.m. on a southbound train near the Armitage station. One car near the rear left the tracks. The CTA reported that service was restored at about 3 p.m., but warned of delays.

ap shows location of CTA Red Line train derailment in Chicago, IL between Armitage Ave and W Dickens Ave just east of N Sheffield Ave on May 9, 2013.

The CTA and the Chicago Fire Department reported that more than 60 people were evacuated while crews worked on the car. Two people were taken off by rescue chairs and one by an elevated bucket, Fire Department spokesman Larry Langford said. At least one person was taken to a hospital apparently suffering from anxiety.

No railroad worker injuries were reported at the time of the incident.

The incident remains under investigation at this time.

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Photo shows wreckage of passenger car down the tracks from the point of impact after a collision with a Union Pacific train at a rail crossing in Troup, TX on May 10, 2013.

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The accident occurred at about 3:09 p.m. on Friday afternoon, at the railroad crossing at Front Street in Troup. A Texas Department of Public Safety trooper identified the victim as Cynthia Strandberg of Tyler, Texas. According to DPS troopers, Strandberg apparently went around the crossing arms to enter the tracks. Officials determined that the vehicle was in reverse at the time of the collision.

Map shows location of fatal crash of a passenger car with a Union Pacific train at the Front St. rail crossing in Troup, TX on May 10, 2013.

KLTV reports:

A Department of Public Safety trooper says the vehicle, a black SUV, was pushed at least half a mile down the tracks. There was only one person in the vehicle and the victim was airlifted to East Texas Medical Center in Tyler. Her condition is currently unknown.

A witness says he saw a woman being pulled from the vehicle and loaded into the helicopter.

According to Union Pacific Railroad, the train was northbound on the track, headed to Little Rock, AR. The crew said that they sounded the whistle to warn the driver before the crash. Officials say that there are flashing signals with arms at the crossing and the signals appeared to be working at the time of the crash.

The incident remains under investigation at this time.

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Map showing location where a Norfolk Southern railroad worker was killed in a mudslide while working on a rail track on Old Fort Mountain in North Carolina on May 6, 2013. The accident happened a couple of miles outside Black Mountain, NC near Mill Creek Road.

The victim was identified as 33-year-old Joe Drewnoski of Waynesville, an assistant foreman who had been with Norfolk Southern for eight years. According to Norfolk Southern spokesman Robin Chapman, the accident occured near Old Mill Creek road where Drewnoski and a fellow worker were inspecting the rails around 2 a.m. on Monday, May 6, after a reported mudslide. It was there that a second mudslide happened knocking the worker’s special truck with rail wheels off the track.

Officials told the media that Drewnoski, who was outside the truck, was buried and killed, while the employee in the truck called for help and was rescued. Chapman said Drewnoski’s body was recovered about five hours later.

Drewnoski is survived by his wife, Ashley and three children.

“He was a family man, always with a smile on his face,” Ashley Drewnoski said. “Forever remembered and sorrowfully missed, he was one of a kind and truly irreplaceable. Joe was loved by everyone that met him.”

The incident remains under investigarion at this time.

Source: Black Mountain News

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A CSX train plowed into a semi truck that was stopped on the tracks at a rail crossing in Monroe, NC on April 30, 2013 and spilled a load of PVC pipe all over the surrounding area.

The accident occurred at 5 p.m. after a CSX train crashed into a tractor-trailer that was parked on the tracks causing the tractor trailer to spill hundreds of PVC pipes.

Map showing location of CSX train crash with tractor trailer in Monroe, NC at the rail crossing on Old Charlotte Hwy and N Rocky River Road on April 30, 2013.

Police charged the truck driver with failure to stop at a railroad crossing.

9 WSOCTV reported the following:

“I turned away because I knew something was coming,” said witness David Frank, whose truck was damaged in the accident.

All Frank could do was hold his breath and pray in the seconds before the crash.

“Soon as I heard the train whistle I knew something was going to happen,” said Frank.

A total of five vehicles were involved in the wreck.

“It was just like a boom when the train hit the trailer,” said Frank.

A local witness, Mike Reese said. “We were sitting in the office just working away and all of a sudden it sounded like a bomb went off.”

Reese was working at the Union County Habitat for Humanity office when the train crash happened. When he came outside he said he saw the tractor trailer had been hit by the train.

“He had crept into the railroad crossing to try and make the light as it changed and he couldn’t see up the railroad tracks because of the trees that the train was coming,” he said.

The media reported that four people were sent to the hospital with minor injuries and have been released.

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The accident occurred on March 23, when 25 of Union Pacific’s 56 rail cars derailed.  A spokesperson for the White County Sheriff’s Office confirmed that cars from a moving train hit a standing locomotive on the tracks near Highway 367 and Doyle Road just before 2pm. The train was hauling mostly auto parts and was traveling from from Laredo, Texas, to Salem, Illinois.

Reports said that an engineer was hurt after one of the cars crashed into a lead engine of a parked locomotive. Espinoza said that the engineer was released from a hospital two days after the accident.

Espinoza said that investigators discovered the broken rail after the derailment and immediately replaced it.

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Three rail cars belonging to the Wheeling and Lake Erie Railroad derailed and then tipped over in a rail yard in Canton, OH on April 25, 2013. Photo credit: Cantonrep.com

According to Noel Rush, spokesman for the first-responder R.J. Corman Railroad Group, three “hoppers” loaded with plastic pellets spilled at the site.

Map showing location of a Wheeling and Lake Erie Railroad train derailment at the company’s Gambrinus rail yard in Canton, OH on April 25, 2013.

The Wheeling & Lake Erie Railway Co., which is based in Brewster, sent clean-up crews from their Toledo and Pittsburgh divisions that arrived at 6 a.m. Friday after the company was notified Thursday evening.

Alec Jarvis, vice president of law and government relations for the company, said that no one was injured in the incident and that the spilled material was not hazardous.

The incident remains under investigation at this time.

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Photo shows aerial view of BNSF train derailment on Sunday, April 21, 2013 in Bridgeport, Nebraska. Photo Courtesy of Krystal Aulick.

According to StarHerald.com, the accident happened at about 5:30 a.m. Sunday morning, April 21, at the crossing at Main Street and Highway 88 on the Burlington Northern Santa Fe tracks that was traveling through the community. Fifteen of the 124 rail cars derailed.

BNSF spokesperson Andy Williams said that the crossing at Main Street/Highway 88 is expected to remain closed Monday morning as crews from Burlington Northern Santa Fe conduct cleanup operation.

Williams said he hoped that a temporary crossing would be opened by Monday morning and a permanent crossing will be installed in two weeks when asphalt will be ready.

The incident remains under investigation.

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The accident occurred shortly after noon on Sunday. According to Lancaster City Police Sgt. Ray Corll, the train car that caused the derailment was carrying paper and derailed a short distance from RR Donnelley, a print company that also provides other services.

There were no injuries reported at the time of the accident and traffic was not affected.

The incident remains under investigation at this time.

View of the rail crossing at 6th St and U.S. Highway 278 in Fairfax, SC where two pedestrians were killed as they were struck by a passing CSX train while crossing the tracks on April 10, 2013.

The accident occurred at U.S. Highway 278 and 6th Street in Fairfax. The media reported that one of the pedestrians was in a wheelchair and the other pedestrian was pushing the wheelchair across the tracks at the time of the incident.

Map showing location of fatal accident where two pedestrians were killed by a passing CSX train at a rail crossing at 6th St and U.S. Highway 278 in Fairfax, SC on April 10, 2013.

Fairfax is located in Allendale County, SC in the southwestern part of the state about 86 miles northwest of Charleston, SC and about 80 miles southwest of Columbia, SC. Fairfax is nearer to the Georgia cities of Augusta and Savannah (64 miles southeast of Augusta, GA and 67 miles north of Savannah, GA)

CSX sent a team of their own investigators from Augusta, Georgia late Wednesday afternnon to try and reconstruct the accident.

The incident remains under investigation at this time.

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