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Tentative deal averts threat of US rail strike
Rail companies and their workers reached a tentative agreement on Sept. 15 to avert a nationwide strike that could have shut down the nation's freight trains and devastated the economy less than two months before the midterm elections.
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Human Error is Probably Behind the Railroad Crash in the United States
AMTRAK accuses the cargo company CSX of causing the crash, in which a passenger train was diverted to a side track and crashed into a parked freight train in the US state of South Carolina, the agencies said.
Two killed, 70 injured in South Carolina crash on Amtrak train
Two people were killed when an Amtrak passenger train collided with a freight train in the U.S. state of South Carolina early on Feb. 4,
At least three dead as train derails over Washington state highway
An Amtrak train making the first-ever run along a faster new route hurtled off an overpass south of Seattle on Dec. 18 and spilled some of its cars onto the highway below, killing at least three people, injuring dozens and crushing two vehicles, authorities said.
US train in deadly wreck was speeding: Investigators
The Amtrak passenger train that crashed in Philadelphia, killing at least seven people, was hurtling at 170 kph before it ran off the rails along a sharp curve where the speed limit drops to just 50 80 kph, federal investigators said om May 13.
Amtrak train derailed, five dead, more than fifty wounded
An Amtrak passenger train containing more than 200 people was derailed last night in northern Philadelphia, killing five and wounding more than 50 others.
Authorities state that they do not know what caused the derailment near Port Richmond along the Delaware River.