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Accident Investigation Summary Report HQ-2023-1824

On March 9, 2023, at 6:19 a.m., CST, Norfolk Southern Railroad Company (NS) westbound freight train 245A109 derailed at Milepost (MP) 721.3 on NS’s East End Subdivision, in Anniston, Alabama. The train was 9,769 feet long and weighed 9,175 tons configured with 6 locomotives and 108 railcars. Two...

Accident Investigation Summary Report FE-2022-16

On November 5, 2022, at approximately 8:54 a.m., CST, an accident occurred on the Union Pacific Railroad (UP) Palestine Subdivision in Spring, Texas, when a machine and backhoe operator with 18 years of service was fatally injured in an oxygen-propane explosion. 

Accident Investigation Summary Report HQ-2021-1449

On September 25, 2021, at approximately 3:56 p.m. MDT, Amtrak (ATK) Train A7-24 (Amtrak 7) derailed at Milepost (MP) 1014.5 on BNSF Railway’s (BNSF) Hi-Line Subdivision in Joplin, Montana. Amtrak 7 was 988 feet long, conventionally configured with two head end locomotives and 10 passenger cars....