Latest Derailment Stories

CHICAGO, April 8, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- On April 7 at 3:45 p.m., A six car derailment occurred on Chicago Rail Link in the South Chicago Interchange Yard. Four of the cars were tank cars loaded with an alcohol-derivative but there were no leaks or spillage and no injuries. The cars are all back on the track and service will be restored today. Preliminary investigations indicate that the incident was caused by a bad wheel on a boxcar. SOURCE Chicago Rail Link

Canadian environmental officials have acknowledged a rail tanker car derailed by a landslide into a British Columbia river is leaking a toxic chemical. The derailment of four Canadian Pacific Railway chemical cars into the Thompson River happened Tuesday. Initially, rail officials said the cars carrying ethylene glycol were intact, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp., reported Thursday. But at a Wednesday night public meeting in the town 100 miles northeast of Vancouver, Environment Ministry...

IRWINDALE- Crews continue to clean up a tanker spill after four cars of a freight train derailed this morning on Azusa Canyon Road. No one was hurt in the accident, which Los Angeles County Fire dispatch supervisor Andre Gougis says occurred at about 3:50 a.m. Tuesday. A hazardous materials team responded because of the leak, but Gougis says the substance turned out to be nontoxic. The incident occurred on tracks belonging to Union Pacific near the intersection of Arrow Highway and...

By Dean Beeby, THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA - If your Via Rail train rolled into the station late this summer, you weren't alone. Internal reports from the Crown corporation show that crumbling infrastructure has conspired against train schedules across Canada this year, delivering passengers late in almost one of every four trips. The situation deteriorated over the late spring and summer, partly because Via's geriatric F-40 locomotives keep breaking down. "Via equipment failure caused delay...

MADRID (Reuters) - At least five people were killed and between 20 and 30 were injured when an inter-city train derailed in northwest Spain on Monday, officials said. Police put the death toll at five, while Spanish state radio said eight people had been killed. Six carriages came off the tracks near the station of Villada in the Palencia region as the train traveled between the Spanish city of Vigo and the town of Hendaye in France, said a police spokesman. There was no immediate...

MADRID (Reuters) - Five people were killed and between 20 and 30 injured on Monday when a Spanish inter-city train derailed in the northwest of the country, police said. Six carriages of the train derailed near the station of Villada in the Palencia region as the train traveled between the Spanish city of Vigo and the town of Hendaye in France, said a spokesman for the Guardia Civil police in Palencia. Spanish state radio had earlier said the train was traveling from the capital Madrid.

MADRID (Reuters) - Five people were killed on Monday when a Spanish inter-city train derailed in the northwest of the country, state radio reported. Officials for Spain's state rail company were not immediately available to comment on the report. The train was traveling from the capital Madrid when it derailed in Palencia region.

MULTAN, Pakistan (Reuters) - One woman was killed and at least 20 people were injured when a passenger train derailed in central Pakistan on Saturday, the second such incident in less than a week, a railway official said. The train was traveling from the southern port city of Karachi to the eastern city of Lahore when six of its coaches derailed near the town of Samarsatta in the central province of Punjab. "One woman was seriously injured and later died in the hospital while 20 or 21...

ISLAMABAD, Jan 30 - The derailment of a packed express train in Pakistan that killed at least two people and injured more than 70 appears to have been caused by sabotage, a railways official said on Monday. "There is certain evidence collected at the site which shows an element of sabotage," Ishaq Khakwani, the minister of state for railways, told Reuters. He said nuts and bolts and fishplates had been found removed from a portion of the track from where one of the six carriages of...

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - At least six carriages of a Pakistani passenger train that may have been carrying up to 400 passengers derailed on Sunday and plunged into a ravine, a railways minister said, but he had no word on casualties. The accident happened near the central town of Jhelum and involved a train traveling from Rawalpindi, a city adjoining the capital Islamabad, to the eastern city of Lahore, Ishaq Khakwani, the junior minister for railways, told Reuters. He said at least six...