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RAILROAD ACCIDENTS

Japan Times
WORLD
Feb 4, 2019
Seven passengers killed when express train derails in eastern India
Seven passengers were killed and several others injured when a Delhi-bound train derailed in India's eastern state of Bihar on Sunday, railways officials said.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Feb 13, 2018
Stung by three deadly crashes in two months, Amtrak would lose half its federal funds under Trump budget
President Donald Trump is proposing to cut in half the federal subsidy for Amtrak, the troubled national passenger rail service that has experienced three fatal crashes in the past two months.
Japan Times
WORLD
Feb 6, 2018
Padlocked track switch lined into siding blamed in fatal South Carolina Amtrak crash
A locked track switch is being blamed for the crash of an Amtrak passenger train into a freight train that killed two people and injured more than 100 in South Carolina on Sunday and is again raising questions about the roll-out of a new system to make U.S. railways safer.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jan 19, 2018
Train derails and hits residences in Mexico City suburb, killing at least five
A train derailed in a densely populated Mexico City suburb on Thursday morning, killing at least five people, local authorities said.
Japan Times
WORLD
Dec 21, 2017
Mangled locomotive, last piece of Amtrak train wreckage, removed from Washington freeway
Workers had cleared all the wrecked train cars blocking a major West Coast highway by Wednesday morning, two days after the Amtrak train derailed in Washington state while speeding onto a bridge, state transportation officials said.

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