The technology could also have prevented an Amtrak derailment in Philadelphia in 2015 and the derailment of a Metro-North train in the Bronx in 203, according to the National Transportation Safety Board.
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The cause of Thursday's derailment has not yet been revealed.
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The derailment was Amtrak's second in Washington state this year.
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The cause of the deadly derailment was not immediately known.
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Metro is responding to a derailment at East Falls Church.
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Yet now, in the eleventh hour, they seek a derailment.
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The latest derailment set Twitter ablaze as riders assailed their transit system for its deficiencies, complained that their trains were delayed, and stewed about the impact the derailment would have on their morning commutes.
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The Federal Railroad Administration is leading an investigation into the derailment.
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Eleven of the train's 13 cars caught fire following the derailment.
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Hours after the derailment, President Trump blamed it on failing infrastructure.
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Standard bikes run the risk of chain derailment at the hill.
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Passengers said the blood and chaos following the derailment were frightening.
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It's more of a hiccup than a derailment for The Donald.
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Passengers said the blood and chaos following the derailment was frightening.
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TSB is investigating the cause of the derailment, the spokesman added.
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But, in the months ahead, the chances of derailment are significant.
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi publicly expressed his concern over the derailment.
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Previously, the tracks where the derailment occurred were owned by BNSF.
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The MTA apologized on Twitter for "service disruption" the derailment caused.
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"I don't see any derailment of the democratic process," he said.
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As a result of the derailment, a tank car caught fire.
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The cause of the derailment was still under investigation, it added.
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The cause of the derailment was still under investigation, it added.
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Events depicted include cattle theft, bank robbery, and attempted train derailment.
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In Car 3, the derailment was registered in a variety of ways.
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The scene of the derailment, near Charleston Highway and Pine Ridge Road.
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Wednesday's accident marked the third derailment for a CSX train since November.
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There's no immediate indication that PTC would have prevented yesterday's deadly derailment.
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Flames were still visible at the derailment site at 10:30 a.m.
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This was the third derailment for a CSX train since last November.
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At this time, the exact cause of the derailment remains under investigation.
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Another frustrating and bewildering morning, without the high drama of a derailment.
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Long Island Rail Road said its trains were unaffected by the derailment.
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It was the second minor derailment in two weeks at Penn Station.
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The photograph was removed and her picture from Wednesday's derailment was appended.
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It's not yet clear how much oil was spilled in the derailment.
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In October, a Long Island Rail Road train derailment left 33 people injured.
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The derailment near Alma, Wisconsin, is under investigation by the Federal Railroad Administration.
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It was in California that she oversaw her first cleanup after a derailment.
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Another storm, a tunnel crack or a high-speed derailment would be catastrophic.
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The Point: From infrastructure to disaster funding, it was a week of derailment.
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This week, however, it suddenly seems to be on the verge of derailment.
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The derailment is the third involving a freight train in as many months.
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A possible derailment: The allegations -- though largely dismissed -- could complicate Hyten's confirmation. Sen.
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The derailment happened south of Doon, a city of a few hundred people.
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The charges were filed two years to the day after the fatal derailment.
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There was no immediate indication that the derailment, which occurred around 9 p.m.
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Amtrak officials said shortly after the derailment that passengers should expect lengthy delays.
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The railroad's safety record is under scrutiny after a fatal derailment last year.
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The cause of the derailment remains unclear and is under investigation, CSX said.
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So they carefully choreographed two weeks of public hearings to avoid a derailment.
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The derailment happened at a rail crossing about 100 miles northwest of Orlando.
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Some of the train cars were still burning hours after the derailment, according to the AP. It's unclear what caused the derailment, but federal investigators on the site will issue a report determining the cause and offering recommendations for the future.
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The derailment caused delays, re-routings and suspended trains across the century-old system.
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Investigators are working to determine the cause of a train derailment near Tucson, Arizona.
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Rockefeller acted reasonably with regard to his health before the derailment, his attorney said.
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It was the second derailment in the area in a span of two months.
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The derailment caused serious damage at the historic station, including a partial roof collapse.
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It was the second derailment involving an Amtrak train in the last few days.
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Data shows Bostian applied the train's full emergency brakes just moments before the derailment.
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The cause of the derailment is under investigation, Norfolk Southern spokesman David Pidgeon said.
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A CSX spokeswoman said there were no injuries or leaks from the Sunday derailment.
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The worst was a 2013 derailment that killed 47 people in Lac-Megantic, Quebec.
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The Federal Transit Administration is also expected to release a report on the derailment.
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Having said that, the domestic economy is resilient enough to avoid a growth derailment.
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I tell you, I'm more concerned by the derailment on this line last summer.
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At least 34 people were injured in the derailment, which occurred around 10 a.m.
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A derailment on March 24 took place when an Amtrak train left Track 6.
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It was unclear how the derailment would affect service during the Friday morning commute.
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After a derailment on March 0003, the agency estimated that cross-honoring cost $165,300.
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" "Why was Amtrak train traveling at nearly TRIPLE the speed limit before fatal derailment?
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Early reports are indicating that that fatal Amtrak derailment out in Washington -- similar to the 2015 derailment in Philadelphia -- could have been prevented by positive train control, which Congress back in 2008 mandated was supposed to be on all lines by 2015.
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The derailment happened more than 100 kilometers southeast of Saskatoon, the report said bit.ly/3bjLi0z.
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Don't think of this period as a derailment, but more of an opportunity to reroute.
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State officials say the roller coaster passed a state inspection only hours before the derailment.
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More than 50 homes near the derailment were evacuated, the Chautauqua County Sheriff's office said.
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Canada has not experienced a major derailment of a crude train since 2015, Fox said.
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Australia's Transport Safety Bureau said on Monday that a probe into the derailment was underway.
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It's also unknown whether or not the derailment is related to the subway's dilapidated infrastructure.
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Nobody was hurt or killed and the derailment didn't cause closure of any major roads.
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"Thoughts & prayers with all involved in @Amtrak 501 train derailment," Heck wrote in another tweet.
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The cause of the derailment is not yet clear, and federal investigators are en route.
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In response to the second Amtrak derailment at Pennsylvania Station in as many weeks, Gov.
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Subway officials blamed the derailment on human error and suspended the two supervisors without pay.
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The derailment occurred near the Moulavi Bazar district, 210 km (130 miles) east of Dhaka.
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The derailment happened more than 100 kilometers southeast of Saskatoon, the report said http://bit.ly/3bjLi0z.
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The derailment of the December bipartisan, bicameral means that 10,20163 families a day receive surprise bills.
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She said there were no injuries in the derailment and that the cause was under investigation.
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Modi on Sunday held a political rally about 210 km from the site of the derailment.
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The agency has not yet determined an official cause for the deadly derailment of Amtrak 188.
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The train was heading to Seattle at the time of derailment and , CNN affliate KEPR reported.
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In a telephone interview, Reed said her son was evacuated from school because of the derailment.
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But much of the derailment on the infrastructure rollout has been of President Trump's own making.
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There were 15 ambulances at the site of the derailment, and more than 40 firefighters responded.
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So Senate Republicans steam ahead on this night train despite red lights warning of political derailment.
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As awful as the Cascades derailment was, history tells us that improvements will almost surely result.
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It was one of the largest settlements related to a train derailment in the United States.
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We'll keep you posted on the morning commute, and on Tuesday's derailment, as we learn more.
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At least one person had minor injuries after the "slow speed derailment" at about 9 a.m.
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For a train derailment, the drone and camera combination can be used to spot leaking chemicals.
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In the derailment on Monday, three middle cars of a slow-moving train jumped the tracks.
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The derailment on Friday snarled service on the Q and B lines during the morning commute.
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Sumwalt said then that the derailment would not have happened if PTC had been in place.
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Amtrak has since installed that speed control along the section of track where the derailment occurred.
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On Friday, a Q train derailed in Brooklyn, the second subway derailment in the last month.
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Another derailment in Wisconsin last November spilled about 7.53,000 gallons of ethanol into the Mississippi River.
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The following day, a separate derailment spilled about 1,000 gallons of crude oil into the Mississippi.
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It's called Beaver Run, but the way things were going, Beaver Derailment would have been more accurate.
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Cold weather and heavy snow and a derailment on a major line were to blame, Statscan said.
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InfoWars, however, just republished the deleted post and didn't say the cause of derailment is currently unknown.
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Jay Inslee (right) talks with Washington State Patrol Chief John Batiste near the site of the derailment.
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But remember that the shitpost isn't an expression of power rather it is the derailment of discourse.
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Last month, an NJ Transit train derailment took out several tracks at the station, creating long delays.
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The derailment caused damage along the railway line and "chemical exposure," according to the Alberta Emergency Alert.
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NJ Transit spokesman Jim Smith called it a "minor derailment," and said the cause was under investigation.
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That "derailment" was a cost the White House was prepared to accept to fulfill Trump's campaign promise.
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The last subway derailment was in 2015, when a G train went off the tracks in Brooklyn.
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Stephen Thompson was once a gimmick, riding a hype train that had fans gleefully anticipating its derailment.
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The derailment at Penn Station, the fourth there in recent months, underscored the continuing unpredictability of service.
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After one derailment, eight of the station's 21 tracks were taken out of use for several days.
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The infrastructure damage caused by the derailment was extensive, totaling more than $1 million, the official said.
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The derailment came days before eight weeks of substantial repairs are to begin at the aging station.
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Officials later said that the April 3 derailment had been caused by a defect on the tracks.
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The tweets from the president came hours after a derailment on the Interstate 5, south of Seattle.
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Anderson said the CSX dispatch center directed the Amtrak train to the track where the derailment happened.
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He said the CSX dispatch center directed the Amtrak train to the track where the derailment happened.
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The ride from the train station in Philadelphia to the site of the derailment was 11 minutes.
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Video showed the train was speeding up as it approached a curve, just moments before its derailment.
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CP was not immediately available for comment Garneau said Canada's Transportation Safety Board was investigating the derailment.
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In 28503, a tragic derailment of an Amtrak train in Philadelphia killed eight people and injured 22019.
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The Times Magazine looks in depth at what caused the derailment, the worst American rail disaster in decades.
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Julie Morin, the mayor of Lac-Mégantic, the town where the derailment occurred, is pleased Netflix took action.
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Jay Inslee declared a state of emergency in Pierce and Thurston counties as a result of the derailment.
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"As such, there is risk that another derailment may occur before the root cause is found," it warned.
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Amid the sweltering heat, trains were canceled in a number of European countries due to risk of derailment.
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A hospital spokesman says only two riders from a roller coaster derailment in Florida remain in the hospital.
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Transit police for Washington's Metrorail system are launching an investigation into a recent train derailment, officials announced Thursday.
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While no injuries were reported, the train remained engulfed in flames six hours after the derailment, officials said.
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But Trump seized on the Amtrak derailment to push for his forthcoming plan to rebuild crumbling U.S. infrastructure.
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The cause of the derailment was unknown, a filing with the Illinois Emergency Management Agency said on Saturday.
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In January, a train derailment forced 63 passengers to traverse two football fields' worth of tunnels to escape.
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Amtrak, which owns and operates the station and tunnels, said that its infrastructure did not cause the derailment.
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New Jersey Governor Chris Christie on Friday demanded a "full investigation into all potential causes" of the derailment.
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The derailment of a New Jersey Transit train continues to affect commutes in and out of the city.
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We're covering a derailment of Boris Johnson's plans for Britain and a civil war within the Conservative Party.
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After the derailment, emergency workers boarded the train to check for injured passengers, said Rich Denison, another passenger.
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We're covering a derailment of Boris Johnson's plans for Britain and a civil war within the Conservative Party.
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As with its larger Saudi cousin, awkward questions about financial transparency and governance could yet cause a derailment.
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The latest derailment, of a New Jersey Transit train on Monday, created chaos for commuters across the region.
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The problems in recent weeks proved to Mr. Moorman that commuters would not tolerate another derailment, he said.
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He said Metro wasn't following its own procedures about track inspections and blamed systematic failures for the derailment.
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In November, more than 140 passengers died in the derailment of passenger coaches near the city of Kanpur.
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"These memes are the No. 203 derailment people use when they talk about the slave trade," he said.
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The Q train derailment last week made the union's recommendations more urgent, said John Samuelsen, the union's president.
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The 116-year-old railway shut down after a derailment four years ago for a $20133-million safety upgrade.
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The 116-year-old railway shut down after a derailment four years ago for a $5-million safety upgrade.
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The Senate confirmed Mark Esper as America's new defence secretary, following the derailment of Patrick Shanahan's nomination last month.
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"All of a sudden there was a massive jerk," Ravindra Pathak said in the aftermath of the deadly derailment.
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Same with the one in Virginia the week before, and the derailment that happened last December in Washington state.
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This is one reason why the question of historical authenticity is a derailment of the argument Hamilton is making.
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The derailment placed Amtrak, the country's main passenger rail service, under renewed scrutiny following a series of fatal incidents.
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The derailment and subsequent fire prompted evacuations in the neighborhood, and there were no injuries, a report with NBCDFW.
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On Thursday, a "minor slow-speed" derailment in Manhattan near the Hudson River tunnel left thousands of commuters stranded.
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The local governor in Tekirdag, about 120 km (75 miles) west of Istanbul, blamed heavy rain for the derailment.
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Very often their performance feels like it's on the verge of derailment, but they maintain control over the chaos.
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One of the worst was a derailment of the Indore-Patna Express near Kanpur, in northern India, on Nov.
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And after a minor New Jersey Transit derailment brought days of delays, some in New Jersey say that Gov.
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About two hours after the derailment, passengers on the train were moved to a "rescue train," Mr. Denison said.
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Mr. Naparstek said "the likelihood of a derailment should decrease" after Amtrak makes repairs to the tracks this summer.
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What's next: Each side blamed the other for the derailment but also left open the door to continue talks.
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A train derailment at Pennsylvania Station in New York City on Monday cascaded into a transportation crisis on Tuesday.
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The damage from the derailment required major repairs to the tracks, a complex labyrinth near the Hudson River tunnel.
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The derailment caused a 4,000-gallon fuel leak from the trains, a CBS television affiliated station in Orlando reported.
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Amtrak said that derailment was caused by a mismatch between two pieces of rail that connected at a curve.
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The chastising was so extreme, journalist Jon Ronson explained, that it resulted in the derailment of Sacco's life and career.
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Tekirdag governor Mehmet Ceyhan said the area where the derailment happened was muddy from heavy rain and difficult to reach.
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The FRA told Reuters it is also investigating the June derailment of a 13,147-foot CSX train in Crestline, Ohio.
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The governor has so far been silent about Tuesday's derailment and his office did not respond to requests for comment.
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"The commission of inquiry established that the rail carrier Camrail was mainly to blame for the derailment," the statement said.
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Operating expenses jumped 14 percent in the first quarter, also due to a crude oil train derailment in Western Canada.
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Had the technology been operational for the stretch of track where Monday's derailment occurred, the crash might have been prevented.
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An investigation is underway to determine the cause of the derailment, the President's office said in a statement on Facebook.
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CNN employee Jeff Abrahams, who was a passenger on the train, said people were comforting one another after the derailment.
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The derailment occurred on Track 6 of Atlantic Terminal, which services both the LIRR and New York's MTA subway system.
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"About six seconds prior to the derailment, the engineer made a comment regarding an over speed condition," the board said.
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Coal that spilled in a train derailment in Washington last month is smoldering at the site, the Spokesman-Review reports.
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The train derailment is just the latest in a string of bad headlines for the beleaguered transit agency this summer.
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The questions investigators will be asking after Amtrak derailment "We have to assure people's confidence in rail transit," Inslee said.
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Yes, Comey's testimony interfered, but much of the derailment on the infrastructure rollout has been of President Trump's own making.
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But we could be waiting a while before we hear from the safety board about what led to the derailment.
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The cause of the derailment, which occurred about 60 miles (97 km) north of New York City, is under investigation.
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In April, a New Jersey Transit train derailment took out several tracks at New York's Penn Station, creating long delays.
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All disabled trains had been evacuated by noon, according to MTA, nearly two hours after initial reports of the derailment.
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NTSB board member Robert Sumwalt said then that the derailment would not have happened if PTC had been in place.
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The local governor in Tekirdag, about 120 kilometers (75 miles) west of Istanbul, blamed the heavy rains for the derailment.
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Leaf slime has never led to a collision or a derailment, according to Metro-North, but skidding can ruin wheels.
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For Mr. Lhota, who is days into a job he has held once before, the derailment was an inauspicious beginning.
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The train, which was traveling across a highway overpass at the time of the derailment, was recorded at 80 mph.
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A subway train derailed in Brooklyn on Friday morning in the second subway derailment in the last month, officials said.
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Op-Ed Contributor CHICAGO — On Thursday, in the wake of a subway derailment and an epidemic of train delays, Gov.
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Amtrak accepted blame for the minor train derailment that forced cancellations and disrupted tens of thousands of commuters last week.
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In 1991, an intoxicated train driver sped through a switch at Union Square, leading to a derailment at 50 mph.
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It was Germany's most fatal train crash since the derailment of a high speed train in 1998 killed 101 people.
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He said there is "no danger to the community due to this derailment" and blasted some media reports that suggested otherwise.
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The accident took place about 20 miles (30 km) south of where another derailment last May killed eight and injured 43.
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NTSB spokeswoman Bella Dinh-Zarr told reporters it was too early to tell if the train's speed contributed to the derailment.
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Late on the evening of May 12, Gregory got word from an Amtrak contact about a massive derailment in Frankford Junction.
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An Amtrak statement said 80 passengers and five crew members were on board the train at the time of the derailment.
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At the time of the derailment, a conductor undergoing training was also in the train's cab with the engineer, she said.
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It has to a large extent corrected the imbalances of its twin deficits - its fiscal derailment and the current account gap.
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A National Transportation Safety Board train was scheduled to leave Washington on Monday morning to investigate the derailment, NTSB officials said.
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Now he's creating a documentary about his rise to YouTube fame and instant career derailment in attempt to make a comeback.
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Ripley schools were closed Wednesday and residents near the derailment were asked to shelter in place, CNN affiliate WKBW-TV reported.
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The cause of the derailment remains unknown, but Wiedefeld emphasized that it was not the fault of the ongoing SafeTrack project.
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That derailment came a week and a half after an Amtrak Acela train derailed there, causing disruptions for thousands of commuters.
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Thanks to Aidan MacAllan's hacking, everyone's phones and internet signals start screwing up, triggering travel delays and even a train derailment.
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New Jersey Transit has halted service in and out of New York's Penn Station after a minor train derailment Monday morning.
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Saturday's accident is at least the fourth major passenger train derailment this year and the third in Uttar Pradesh in 2017.
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A deadly Amtrak derailment in Philadelphia last year was likely caused by a distracted train operator, federal safety investigators have found.
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In addition to the tunnel fire that killed a passenger in January 2015, a train derailment in August raised red flags.
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As he was walking back to his office for more information on the derailment, he was still holding out the print.
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Just 10% cited infrastructure improvements in the poll conducted Thursday through Sunday, before a train derailment in Washington state Monday morning.
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Sunday's derailment was Taiwan's deadliest rail accident since a train collision on the country's west coast in 1981 killed 30 passengers.
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About New York For sheer threat to life and limb, few calamities in New York City can match a subway derailment.
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But the piece of rail that caused the derailment was short enough that it should have been removed from the site.
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The "summer of hell" in New York continues, as another subway train derailment delayed commuters in the nation's most populous city.
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In the first derailment this year, in late March, an Amtrak train sideswiped a New Jersey Transit train on Track 6.
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The derailment on March 24 was caused by a mismatch between two pieces of rail that connected together at a curve.
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Brown told the NTSB he had operated the train for just one roundtrip during training prior to the derailment but felt prepared.
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"Better late than never," one industry expert told VICE News in reaction to Transport Canada running the train derailment simulation last weekend.
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Instead, six seconds before the derailment, the engineer commented about the high rate of speed and attempted to slow the train down.
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Railroads note that derailment rates have fallen in recent years and that the train accident rate is down 44 percent since 2000.
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The derailment injured more than 200 people, scores of them seriously, officials said, as relatives thronged hospitals in a search for survivors.
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The derailment comes just 1.5 weeks after an Amtrak Acela train derailed at Penn Station on March 24, causing some service disruptions.
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Washington's Metrorail system is adding more weekend work to its yearlong repair plan after a recent train derailment sparked new safety concerns.
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Federal investigators attributed the deadly Amtrak derailment in Philadelphia last year to a distracted train operator who sped around a sharp curve.
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Washington Metrorail board members are questioning whether transit workers falsified an inspection report of a track area that caused a train derailment.
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Last week's train derailment on Washington's Metrorail was likely caused by deteriorated rail ties on the tracks, the transit agency said Monday.
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The Riders Alliance, an organization of subway and bus riders in New York, blamed the derailment on the state's governor, Andrew Cuomo.
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Sleep apnea was linked to a 2013 Metro-North derailment in New York and a deadly 2000 tractor-trailer crash in Tennessee.
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Authorities say more than two dozen people have been injured in a light rail train derailment in Northern California on Thursday night.
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The cause of the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) derailment, which injured more than 100 people at Brooklyn's Atlantic Terminal, remains unknown.
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These are the questions investigators will be asking about the derailment Injured taken to hospitals The crash happened about 22009:2800 a.m.
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And with the derailment, riders are not just worried about getting where they need to go on time, but about their safety.
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"It's a serious derailment, with quite of bit of damage to signals and some structural damage to the walls," Mr. Utano said.
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I am personally responsible for the eight years of abject misery Bush's passenger train derailment of a Presidency wrought on our country.
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The agency said in December that the engineer "made a comment regarding an over speed condition" about six seconds before the derailment.
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CSX's service problems were exacerbated by an Aug 2 derailment in rural western Pennsylvania that forced the company to re-route trains.
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It was the second derailment in recent weeks as New York City's subway system confronts a growing crisis over delays and accidents.
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"You could see a derailment of investment programs for expansion plans that have to be approved by the Chinese government," he said.
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Even with the derailment of the human rights meeting, the North Korean government has intensified its recent invective aimed at Mr. Trump.
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In the weeks after that accident, two more people died in another derailment of passenger coaches in the same stretch of track.
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The condition was linked to a 2013 Metro-North derailment in New York and a deadly 2000 tractor-trailer crash in Tennessee.
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The condition was a factor in a 2013 Metro-North derailment and may have been a factor in the Atlantic Terminal crash.
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A train derailment at Pennsylvania Station in New York this month was caused by a track defect, Amtrak officials said on Wednesday.
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The trains are such a mess — plagued with delays, malfunctions and even a derailment — that the governor declared a state of emergency.
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Last month saw a train sit in the tunnel in sweltering heat for 45 minutes and a derailment with dozens of injuries.
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The NYCT responded by slapping a 25 mph speed restriction on all bridges, building on the findings after the Union Square derailment.
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TAIPEI, Oct 21 (Reuters) - A train derailment in northeastern Taiwan on Sunday killed at least 17 people and injured 80, government authorities said.
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It also came almost a year after another Amtrak derailment in Philadelphia -- one that left eight people dead and more than 200 injured.
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It also came almost a year after another Amtrak derailment in Philadelphia, one that left eight people dead and more than 200 injured.
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If the N.T.S.B. finds him directly responsible for the derailment, he could be hit with criminal charges ranging from reckless endangerment to manslaughter.
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The National Transportation Safety Board will determine the probable cause of the May 2015 fatal Amtrak derailment in Philadelphia during a board meeting.
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NTSB investigators have found that the train's emergency brakes were automatically activated during the derailment rather than being engaged manually by the engineer.
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The derailment is yet another blow to the transit agency's safety reputation, even as it works to implement a massive, yearlong repair effort.
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Last month's derailment, which occurred in a crossover area, is what alerted officials that the machine was not being used to inspect crossovers.
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The independent Rail Accident Investigation Branch said the derailment had happened on a sharp curve with a 12 mph (20 kph) speed limit.
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Oregon's two Democratic senators are pushing a federal safety board to join the investigation into last week's oil trail derailment in their state.
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Other officials in the state called for a moratorium on oil trains in the Columbia River Gorge as a result of the derailment.
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Railroads also note that derailment rates have fallen in recent years and that the train accident rate is down 44 percent since 2000.
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Had the technology been operational for the stretch of track in Washington state where the derailment occurred, the crash might have been prevented.
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But barely four miles upstream from the fishermen's nets, state workers are still cleaning up after a major oil train derailment in June.
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Safety concerns about Amtrak, which is ostensibly private but partly funded by the government, flared last year after a deadly derailment in Philadelphia.
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It's unclear if Trump knows that the derailment is unlikely to be due to a maintenance issue, since the tracks were recently built.
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The authorities reported a train derailment in Anson County, southeast of Charlotte, late Sunday, and local media said some residents had been evacuated.
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Earlier reports described the incident as a train collision or derailment, but Wade said the train is still upright and on the track.
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One of the worst accidents in recent years was a derailment of the Indore-Patna Express near Kanpur, in northern India, on Nov.
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After Tuesday's subway derailment, passengers who were on that train commented on The Times's coverage and described their experiences, some of them harrowing.
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A piece of rail that was left unsecured in the subway tracks caused the derailment on Tuesday, officials at the authority said Wednesday.
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The night before the derailment, workers replaced a piece of track on the Eighth Avenue line in Manhattan near the 125th Street station.
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INTERNATIONAL An article on Wednesday about a deadly train derailment and explosion in Quebec in 2013 misstated when Lisa Raitt was transport minister.
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The fatal Amtrak Cascades derailment in Washington State between Tacoma and Olympia on Dec, 18 killed three people and injured scores of others.
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Amtrak has also come under fire in recent years for its safety record, including a deadly train derailment in Washington state in December.
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Ms. Leeds said Amtrak held a train that was bound for Penn Station in Albany for about 30 minutes because of the derailment.
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New Jersey Transit is operating with several service changes following the derailment of a New Jersey Transit train at Penn Station on Monday.
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As train delays, cancellations and gridlock set off by a small derailment at Pennsylvania Station stretched into a third day on Wednesday, Gov.
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Opinion After the derailment on the A train on Tuesday, I asked riders how they felt about the New York City subway system.
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New York's quest to install the new system began in 1991, after a subway derailment at Union Square in Manhattan killed five people.
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That December derailment killed at least three people and injured more than 282 others on a new route between Seattle and Portland, Oregon.
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On Thursday, Amtrak took responsibility for the accident this week and for the derailment of one of its Acela trains on March 24.
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The July 6 derailment, the third since late March at Penn Station, happened at a crucial junction that is currently closed for repairs.
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An investigation has been launched to determine the cause of the derailment, the department said, adding that anyone to blame will be held accountable.
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The U.S. Federal Railroad Administration said it also was opening an investigation of the derailment and sending a team of inspectors to Penn Station.
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"We will not allow Greece to revert to the era of deficits and fiscal derailment," he told an audience of officials, diplomats and businessmen.
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An initial investigation from Metro determined that deteriorating wooden rail ties, which led the tracks to become too far apart, contributed to the derailment.
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"(I) can confirm Yancoal's Moolarben Coal Complex in Mudgee has been directly affected by the train derailment," a spokesman said in an emailed statement.
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Union Pacific officials said Saturday the company had inspected the section of track where the derailment occurred at least six times since March 21.
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The February 2015 derailment of 85033 railcars carrying nearly 29,000 in Bakken crude oil led to explosions, property destruction and hundreds of resident evacuations.
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"CSX operations and hazardous materials personnel are working with first responders on the derailment this morning in Washington D.C." CSX said in a statement.
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Amtrak crash New details are emerging from Monday's Amtrak derailment that killed at least three people and injured more than 100 in Washington state.
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The rail line, one of the busiest commuter routes into America's largest city, said the derailment had forced suspension of service in both directions.
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A representative for the Orange County, New York, office of emergency management, which was handling the derailment, could not immediately be reached for comment.
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The derailment, which happened on private property in Paulsboro, occurred as one of the rails was bent, the report said, quoting a police official.
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He did not know what caused the derailment but said the train had previously taken tighter curves at the same pace without any issues.
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Sound Transit spokesman Geoff Patrick said earlier that PTC was installed in the segment of tracks where the derailment happened, but wasn't operational yet.
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Federal transportation officials say an axle defect led to the explosive 2013 derailment of an oil train in North Dakota, the Fargo Forum reports.
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In the 2015 Philadelphia Amtrak derailment, the N.T.S.B. found that the engineer had lost "situational awareness" of where the train was on the route.
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In the 212016s, after a derailment killed five passengers and a collision killed a train operator, the M.T.A. started actively slowing down its trains.
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The commuter train and bus networks, held together by crumbling bridges and tunnels, are often just one derailment or pileup away from a breakdown.
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She explained to her daughter that the derailment was just an accident, it rarely happens, and that it's O.K. to ride the train again.
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NYCT Subway, the official source for MTA subway service news, tweeted that the derailment at Brighton Beach in Brooklyn is delaying Q train service.
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He did not go to the scene of a Long Island Rail Road derailment, defending the decision by saying the injuries had been minor.
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Mr. Denison said the rescue train had to exit the tunnel and then re-enter it on another track not affected by the derailment.
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Peter Everett, who said he was waiting for his girlfriend to arrive on an Amtrak train, said he was not surprised by the derailment.
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Nancy Snyder, a spokeswoman for the railroad, said that New Jersey Transit was awaiting word from Amtrak on what had caused the derailment. Gov.
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Chris Christie of New Jersey said in a statement that he was "calling for a full investigation into all potential causes" of the derailment.
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No injuries were reported after the derailment in Hyndman, but the company said trains and shipments would be delayed between Connellsville and Cumberland, Maryland.
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The derailment of a New Jersey Transit train on April 3 was caused by weak timber ties that Amtrak knew needed to be fixed.
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Six seconds before the derailment, the engineer remarked that it was speeding, and said he then applied the brakes but could not prevent the incident.
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ANGEL'S FLIGHT Although the funicular has been closed since 2013 due to a derailment, filmmakers got permission to use it for one day of shooting.
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She issued a disaster proclamation Saturday for Lyon and three other counties in response to rain-fueled flooding and the train derailment, the paper reported.
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With the derailment of Samsung's plans caused by the Galaxy Note 7 battery issues last fall, much of the company's reputation now sits in disrepair.
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Mahn cautioned that any derailment in the Trump presidency — such as a delay or incapability to repeal Obamacare — could cause a pullback in the market.
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The train derailment was likely caused by a mudslide, with a "pretty significant big" tree being a secondary cause, Union Pacific spokesman Francisco Castillo said.
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The deal calls for Amtrak and its insurers to make the payments for claims arising from the derailment to a court-supervised trust by Feb.
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Federal investigators are being sent to probe a freight train derailment and tank car fire that occurred in a small Pennsylvania town early Wednesday morning.
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Oregon's two Democratic senators on Tuesday said lawmakers should reform the way oil is transported by rail after a derailment in their state last week.
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The Federal Railroad Administration is putting the blame squarely on Union Pacific Railroad for this month's oil train derailment in Oregon, the Associated Press reports.
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It occurred a few miles south of the site of a May 2015 derailment in which eight people were killed and more than 200 injured.
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A Chicago law firm has been hired to represent six people injured in the derailment, according to Michael Krzak, an attorney with Clifford Law Offices.
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At least two of the three people killed in the derailment were transit enthusiasts who wanted to ride the inaugural run along the new route.
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The disorder has been linked to other crashes as well, including the 2013 derailment of a Metro-North Railroad commuter train in New York City.
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Washington (CNN)Washington state's congressional delegation shared their condolences following a train derailment that killed several people on board Monday morning in Pierce County, Washington.
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The target date to have PTC operational on the segment of track involved in Monday's derailment is the second quarter of 2018, according to Patrick.
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The agency points to the 2013 Metro-North commuter train derailment in the Bronx, New York, in which four people were killed and dozens injured.
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While some of today's subway troubles are linked to Tuesday's derailment, common causes of delays include signal problems, people holding doors and even sick passengers.
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The governor's comments came days after the derailment, an accident in Harlem that subway officials blamed on the failure to secure equipment during track repairs.
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To honor the victims of the Philadelphia derailment we must step up our shared commitment to invest in the technologies that can prevent future tragedies.
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The damage caused by that derailment ultimately required major track repairs, and further stoked concerns about the aging infrastructure at North America's busiest train station.
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After the April 3 derailment, Amtrak officials lowered the maximum speed for trains entering and leaving Penn Station to 10 miles per hour from 15.
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Veronique Hakim, the authority's interim executive director, said that officials were investigating the derailment, and that it was not immediately clear what had caused it.
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The derailment, the third since late March at Penn Station, happened at a crucial junction that is scheduled to be closed and replaced this summer.
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Several New Jersey Transit services remain suspended to and from Penn Station in Manhattan after the derailment of a New Jersey Transit train this morning.
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Congress ripped Washington's Metro transit system Friday for falsifying reports about dangerous track defects that contributed to a train derailment in Northern Virginia this summer.
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"First responders are on scene of a multiple train car derailment on Carondelet Ave," according to a St. Clair County Emergency Management Agency Facebook post.
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National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) member Bella Dinh-Zarr told reporters in Washington, D.C., that a "go team" would be deployed to investigate the derailment.
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Passengers and their survivors won a $265 million court settlement with Amtrak after a 2015 derailment in Philadelphia killed eight people and injured hundreds more.
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Mexico's government has not commented officially on the derailment of the Trump-Pena Nieto meeting, and Mexico's negotiator Smith said trade talks were still moving forward.
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We have our first post-derailment deep dive on Johnny Depp after the reclusive actor let Rolling Stone in for a candid profile in the magazine.
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Lawyers representing people killed or injured in the derailment said on Monday it was significant that Mr. Bostian had acknowledged that he was accelerating the train.
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"We are deeply saddened to report the death of two of our employees in this morning's derailment in Cayce, South Carolina," Amtrak said in a statement.
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Frances Gelinas, the member of provincial parliament who represents the area, said Gogama, which depends on tourism revenue, is still feeling the effects of the derailment.
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The plan's derailment isn't the end of geoengineering research, even at the UN, though advocates hoped it would be a more global assessment of these technologies.
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The Daytona Beach area was experiencing rain and lightning on the coast, though officials couldn't say if weather was a factor in the amusement ride's derailment.
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The NTSB reported last month that six seconds before the derailment off a bridge and onto a highway, the engineer remarked that the train was speeding.
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The derailment came after the train ran away at high speed for nearly 100 km (62 miles) when the driver left the cabin for an inspection.
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The D.C. Fire and Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Department on Thursday afternoon said they were responding to reports of an Amtrak train derailment at Union Station.
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A deadly Amtrak derailment in Philadelphia last year could have been prevented if the train operator, who was speeding around a curve, was backstopped by PTC.
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Among the residents driving out of town was 53-year-old Shannon Shoemaker, who said his whole family lives within 100 yards of the derailment site.
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A deadly Amtrak derailment in Philadelphia last year was likely caused by a train operator who was distracted by radio transmissions, according to a new report.
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Washington Metrorail's system has fired 21 employees in connection with a train derailment in Northern Virginia last summer, the transit agency said during a meeting Thursday.
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They are seeking monetary damages for the "psychological devastation" Epstein caused — "anguish, damaged relationships, self esteem, career derailment, and much more" — Bloom said in her statement.
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In a 2016 report, the National Transportation Safety Board linked the derailment of Northeast Regional Train 188 with the stone incident that affected that passenger train.
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He had planned to unveil the new South Ferry subway station in Lower Manhattan on Tuesday morning but instead traveled to the scene of the derailment.
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The derailment of a New Jersey Transit train on Monday resulted in four days of extraordinary upheaval for hundreds of thousands of commuters across the region.
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The NTSB said it conducted the interviews last week, nearly one month after the crash, due to the injuries the two individuals sustained in the derailment.
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In New Mexico, heavy winds contributed to the derailment of a 280-car train near the village of Logan, according to a tweet from state police.
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The National Transportation Safety Board is expected to release a report this morning on the Amtrak train derailment in May, which killed eight people and injured dozens.
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Train derails in Arizona during heavy rain, flooding Investigators are working to determine the cause of a train derailment near Tucson, Arizona during heavy rain and flooding.
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The survey was taken following last month's Senate derailment of the GOP drive to replace much of President Obama's statute with a diminished federal role in healthcare.
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NTSB board member Bella Dinh-Zarr added on Tuesday that not only was the train speeding, its emergency brakes only activated automatically when the fatal derailment occurred.
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Amtrak President Richard Anderson told CNN that positive train control, a system designed to automatically stop a speeding train, was not activated at the time of derailment.
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Given that women have often felt silenced when speaking up, or have seen little action taken on their claims, the idea of redemption feels like a derailment.
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More PTC-preventable accidents occurred, and more lives were lost — just this last December two Rail Passengers Association members were killed in a derailment in Washington state.
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No one was hurt in the derailment, in which 32 cars came off the rails, 14 of which leaked at least some of their contents, BNSF said.
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Environmental clean-up work is underway at the site of derailment and the investigation into the cause of the accident would continue into this week, he said.
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Andrew Cuomo (D) had to declare a state of emergency for the state's transit agency last week in the wake of chronic delays and a subway derailment.
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Previously, the tracks where the derailment occurred were owned by BNSF and were used for occasional freight and military transport, said the Washington State Department of Transportation.
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The target date for having the PTC up and running for the segment of the track involved in Monday's derailment had been the second quarter of 280.
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Critics say the projects are a waste, and accidents like the July derailment have raised questions about whether the government has spent enough on maintaining existing infrastructure.
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As far back as 27, the urgency of a modern signal system became evident following a subway derailment at Union Square in Manhattan that killed five people.
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The deadly Amtrak derailment in Washington state has turned the spotlight on Congress's decision to delay a deadline for all railroads to install new train safety technology.
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When pressed on whether the FTA was partly at fault for the July derailment, FTA's executive director, Matthew Welbes, was reluctant to say his agency was responsible.
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The reason for the derailment has not been ascertained, said Mishra, adding that they were not ruling out any possibility of foul play and investigations will be conducted.
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The deadly derailment might have been prevented if the tracks had been fitted with a technology called "Positive Train Control," an innovation that automatically slows speeding rail traffic.
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At a press conference, an NTSB official could not provide any details about the derailment, but said an investigator was en route to the scene of the accident.
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The company said sales for the quarter were below expectations due to a train derailment, a slower than expected recovery from rail line maintenance and some port congestion.
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There was no word from federal transportation regulators, the company, or Pennsylvania State Police on the cause of the derailment in Hyndman, about 100 miles southeast of Pittsburgh.
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In July 2013, the downtown section of the town of Lac Megantic was destroyed following the derailment of a Montreal Maine & Atlantic Railway Ltd train carrying crude oil.
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Aurizon said in a statement that there was major infrastructure damage as a result of the derailment, which occurred 120 km south of the Abbot Point export terminal.
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"The rescue operation is almost over," said J.P. Mishra, the chief public relations officer at East Coast Railway, which has jurisdiction over the area where the derailment occurred.
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Tonight's highlights include the earmark comeback's derailment, soaring Republican economic confidence, tech companies prepping Obama aides for life after the administration, and a proposal from a Fed chair.
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Safety concerns about Amtrak flared last year after the derailment of a New York-bound Amtrak train in Philadelphia left eight people dead and more than 200 wounded.
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A preliminary investigation found that the rails were too far apart because of deteriorated wooden ties, leading to the derailment near the East Falls Church station on Friday.
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In the Friday derailment, eight cars on a train operated by Union Pacific left the tracks, according to Oregon TV station KOIN, and at least one caught fire.
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House Democrats on Thursday introduced legislation meant to accelerate the implementation of a key train safety feature, a move that follows December's deadly Amtrak derailment in Washington state.
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Twenty cars of the south-bound Canadian National train carrying crude oil were involved in the derailment, while three of the cars leaked, CN spokesman Patrick Waldron said.
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It was found that Katelnikoff was actually fired for filing a sexual harassment complaint against a fellow employee and that a faulty track was responsible for the derailment.
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The MTA apologized on Twitter for the "service disruption" the derailment caused and later blamed it on human error, not a track defect, according to The Associated Press.
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The railroad administration completed a similar review of Metro-North Railroad in New York after a derailment in 2013 killed four passengers and injured more than 70 people.
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The mayor told CNN he found out about Monday's derailment when he got a call from the city manager, who had gotten a report from the police chief.
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Amtrak, which owns Penn Station, acknowledged that it was aware of problems with deteriorating tracks but had not realized how urgently repairs were needed until the April derailment.
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Since then, Congress has extended that deadline and trains have kept speeding into preventable disasters, including the Amtrak derailment that killed three people in Western Washington on Monday.
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The second minor train derailment at Penn Station in two weeks caused New Jersey Transit service to be suspended in and out of the Manhattan hub on Monday.
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It is the question on the minds of many in the New York City area: Why is a relatively minor train derailment still wreaking havoc on my commute?
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The involuntary changes to the routines of tens of thousands of people came just days after the third derailment of a train at the station since late March.
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NEW DELHI — At least 2004 passengers were killed in a train derailment in southern India on Saturday night, the latest disaster on India's old and overburdened railway system.
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A 2017 derailment in Washington state, in which a speeding Amtrak train careened off a bridge and onto a highway, killed three passengers and injured dozens of others.
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But let's just cut to the chase: we are looking at the fourth incident since 2008 where Americans have died in a derailment that PTC could have prevented.
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The latest derailment comes almost a year after an Amtrak train travelling from Washington, DC to New York City derailed near Philadelphia, killing eight people and injuring 200.
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The derailment came weeks ahead of island-wide local elections that are being seen as a bellwether for Tsai's ruling party's performance in presidential elections due in 2020.
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This technology can't prevent every accident along the country's railways, but the Washington derailment stands as a reminder of the high costs of America's failure to make these investments.
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ROLLER COASTER DERAILS, THROWS PASSENGERS 34 FEET TO THE GROUND AT DAYTONA BEACH BOARDWALK Her proclamation placed the blame for the derailment on the flooding, the Associated Press reported.
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While there was a lot of water on the tracks at the time, investigators have not yet determined a cause for the derailment and said it remains under investigation.
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The safety board on Monday released hundreds of pages of reports from the investigation into the May 12 derailment, which killed eight people and injured more than 200 others.
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The Sandra Bullock-starrer used real-life footage of the 2013 Lac-Mégantic, Quebec train derailment that killed 47 people for a sequence depicting the world descending into chaos.
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The film, in which society breaks down after the arrival of madness-inducing monsters, uses stock footage of the derailment to illustrate the catastrophes resulting from the creatures' presence.
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Earlier this month, local officials said they had safety concerns about the speeds of the new train route, though it's unclear if speed was the cause of Monday's derailment.
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Six seconds before the derailment, investigators had said in late December, the engineer had made a comment about the high rate of speed and tried slow the train down.
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In March, the company also re-edited its original movie Bird Box, which originally used stock footage of a real-life fatal train derailment to depict a fictional disaster.
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Transport authority staff were at the scene and would "work around the clock to determine the cause of this derailment and restore service as quickly as possible," Cuomo said.
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The derailment comes nine days after a packed New Jersey commuter train crashed into Hoboken Terminal, killing a woman waiting on the platform and injuring more than 100 others.
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It's also working with BNSF Railway, the operator of the tracks where the derailment took place, in hopes of finding out what caused the accident, the rail line said.
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The engineer in that incident reportedly radioed that something had struck his train before the derailment, but it is unclear whether that had anything to do with the crash.
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The derailment involved 19 cars of the train that was carrying munitions at its opposite end, away from accident site, the Elko County, Nevada, Sheriff's Office said on Facebook.
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The Sandra Bullock-starrer used real-life footage of the 2013 Lac-Mégantic, Quebec train derailment that killed 47 people for a sequence depicting the world descending into chaos.
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Sunday's accident in the Philadelphia suburb of Chester occurred about 20 miles (30 km) south of another deadly Amtrak derailment in May that killed eight people and injured 43.
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The National Transportation Safety Board meets today in Washington to determine the probable cause of the derailment in Philadelphia that killed eight people and injured 225 a year ago.
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The NTSB said that data recovered from an event recorder at the rear of the train had provided information on the train's speed at the time of the derailment.
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The article included a recipe for a train derailment tool, and a map of passenger and freight rail lines belonging to Amtrak, Norfolk Southern, Union Pacific, BNSF, and CSX.
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Last September, a derailment off New Jersey's commuter rail injured over 100 commuters and killed one; a month later, the engineer at blame was formally diagnosed with severe apnea.
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Over the summer, a subway derailment injured more than 30, a track fire sent nine people to the hospital, and widespread delays and "signal malfunctions" resulted in overcrowded platforms.
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In a conference call with reporters, Amtrak President and Co-CEO Richard Anderson said "Positive Train Control" was not activated on the tracks at the time of the derailment.
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Originally, Metro had scheduled SafeTrack to be finished in March, but the agency had to adjust its schedule to address new safety issues after a train derailment this summer.
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In July 2013, the downtown section of the town of Lac Megantic was destroyed following the derailment of a Montreal Maine & Atlantic Railway, Ltd train carrying Bakken crude oil.
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Officials at Amtrak, which owns Penn Station, said they were working to repair damage caused by the derailment but warned that service might not be fully restored until Friday.
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The derailment on Monday was connected to a weakening of timber ties beneath the tracks that caused rails to widen and the wheels of the affected cars to derail.
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Another derailment in June was attributed to equipment left on the tracks, and a recent subway fire that caused significant delays was traced to trash left on the tracks.
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The temporary derailment of the great Paige and Sage experiment illustrates just how difficult it is to create new stars by design, especially when their talents are still raw.
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Amtrak's co-chief executive, Richard Anderson, told reporters earlier on Monday he would not speculate on the cause of the derailment and said safety was the company's top priority.
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The NTSB is holding a two-day hearing on two fatal Amtrak crashes, including the Washington derailment and a February collision involving a CSX Corp freight train in South Carolina.
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A new version, which will replace the real-life derailment with fictional footage from an unspecified older TV series, should be available on Netflix globally in a matter of weeks.
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The report comes ahead of Monday's anticipated release of the National Transportation Safety Board's investigation of the May 2015 derailment of Amtrak Train 188 in Philadelphia, which killed eight people.
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The two construction crew members who were killed by an Amtrak train Sunday, causing a massive derailment, may have been conducting maintenance work on the wrong track, CNN reported today.
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The National Transportation Safety board said in a press conference that they do not yet know what caused the derailment, but they have deployed a team to Washington to investigate.
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But first, China may be trying to angle itself back into the game after earlier speculation that the country was responsible for an earlier derailment of Trump and Kim's meeting.
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President Donald Trump promoted his planned infrastructure push Monday in a tweet addressing a train derailment in Washington state, that reportedly killed at least three people and injured several others.
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"These conditions clearly exceeded allowable safety parameters specified in WMATA's track safety standards, and were not found or addressed by WMATA personnel prior to the derailment," the FTA report says.
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I was there six years ago when the explosions and fires set off by the derailment of a runaway oil train killed 47 people and incinerated the community's lakeside downtown.
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As the traffic controller, Amtrak has to coordinate with the commuter railroads, explaining the effects of an episode like Monday's derailment, said Charles W. Moorman, the chief executive of Amtrak.
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An engineer told BuzzFeed News that staff believe the official explanation for the station closures "makes no sense," citing a derailment in September that did not affect train operations significantly.
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On Monday, subway officials said the derailment of a Q train in Brooklyn last week was caused by a maintenance failure related to wheels and an axle on a car.
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The National Transportation Safety Board has said that a December derailment near Seattle of an Amtrak train in which three people were killed could have been prevented with operating PTC.
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New York (CNN)An Amtrak train traveling from Boston to Washington had a "minor" derailment Friday morning as it passed through New York Penn Station and sideswiped a NJ Transit train.
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Do you see the North Koreans coming forward and saying it&aposs regrettable, they treat us like gangsters, as just a bump in the road or a derailment of the process?
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Nearly half the spill — an estimated 100,000 gallons — had been contained with booms near the derailment site and an additional boom placed about 5 miles downstream, BNSF spokesman Andy Williams said.
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The train, he said, did have positive train control, a technological system designed to automatically slow a train down, though it's so far unknown if that could have prevented the derailment.
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President Trump's first reaction to the Washington state train derailment that killed at least six people was to promote his "soon to be submitted infrastructure plan," which may not actually exist.
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The Pacific National coal service derailment has disrupted coking coal shipments from Queensland's Bowen basin, which could add further heat to prices that have nearly doubled since the start of August.
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While none of the 1.53 passengers were hurt, it marked the fourth high-profile incident for Amtrak since the deadly derailment of one of its trains in Washington State in December.
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The crude was bought by TrailStone Inc's U.S. Oil & Refining Co and bound for its refinery in Tacoma, Washington, some 200 miles (322 km) northwest of the derailment, the company said.
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A fiery 2013 derailment in Quebec killed 47 people and left many more badly burned; 2014 rail accidents in Colorado and Virginia resulted in significant oil spills but fortunately no deaths.
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Neumann was ousted from WeWork in September following intense media and investor scrutiny of his behavior and the company's finances, culminating in the derailment of the startup's planned initial public offering.
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In the photo above, taken on July 24, 1978, extremely warped rail tracks in New Jersey led to the derailment of a passenger car, which can be seen in the background.
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The cause of the derailment about 130 km (80 miles) north of the capital New Delhi, in the state of Uttar Pradesh, was not known, said Northern Railways spokesman Neeraj Sharma.
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Finally, the yet to be fully explained overspeed derailment and wreck of Amtrak Train 188 in May 2015 in a curve just north of Philadelphia is an Amtrak management root cause.
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New Jersey Transit said on Twitter that it was a "minor slow-speed derailment" near the station and advised commuters to switch to the PATH train from Manhattan to Hoboken Terminal.
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Clinton had spurts of talking about policies that answered the questions, but Trump would usually derail the conversation — and Holt often allowed the debate to go wherever that derailment took them.
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A total of 13 cars derailed, according to the AP. The Washington State Department of Transportation told the Seattle Times that they had yet to uncover the reason for the derailment.
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Lee Crousillat, who lives in Queens, said he worried that pulling the emergency brake could cause a derailment or that a falling passenger could injure his 3-year-old son, Lucien.
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The judge, Thomas F. Gehret of Philadelphia Municipal Court, said evidence presented by prosecutors led him to conclude that the engineer, Brandon Bostian, 34, bore no criminal responsibility for the derailment.
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"As a result of her treatment by Defendants, Ms. McHenry has suffered humiliation, emotional anguish, derailment of her career, and significant loss of economic opportunities," the suit alleges, according to THR.
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" Tsai added that she has directed government agencies and the military to step up rescue efforts and determine the cause of the derailment "so as to avoid unnecessary speculation or misunderstandings.
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Other common challenges include professional or educational derailment, financial insecurity, infertility risks, a loss of independence, body image issues, and difficulty talking to friends and partners about the side effects of treatment.
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A deadly Amtrak crash in December near Seattle that killed three occurred on a section of track that did not have PTC operating and could have prevented the derailment, the NTSB said.
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That's about how it goes with the Angels Flight — the world's shortest incorporated railroad — a downtown Los Angeles landmark that reopened on Thursday, four years after it shut down following a derailment.
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Tangela Boyd, a spokeswoman for Halifax Health Medical Center, says a total of nine passengers were admitted after Thursday night&aposs derailment of the Sand Blaster coaster on the Daytona Beach Boardwalk.
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That added to disruptions mostly at its Australian operations in the first half that included an acid plant outage Olympic Dam, a fire at its Kalgoorlie nickel smelter, and a train derailment.
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A train that smashed into the station in Hoboken, New Jersey during rush hour on Thursday likely wasn't equipped with a technology called positive train control that could have prevented the derailment.
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Domestic politics drove President Trump's potentially costly decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital: Even senior White House officials said they're "prepared for derailment" of Middle East peace efforts — temporarily, they hope.
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The derailment was the latest in a series of derailments at Penn Station, where extensive track repairs intended to prevent such problems are scheduled to begin Monday and run through Sept. 1.
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The accelerated timeline is one of the latest steps that Canadian regulators have taken to improve oil-by-rail safety, following a July 2013 derailment and explosion in Quebec that killed 47.
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Washington's Metrorail system was not properly following its own inspection protocols and kept defective rail ties on the tracks prior to last week's train derailment in Virginia, according to federal safety investigators.
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Most recently, another Amtrak train derailed earlier this week in DuPont, Washington where we already know that this most recent derailment led to multiple casualties and disrupted rail and highway transportation corridors.
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Aloft in the PAV with a somnolent Huggit, I contacted my bosses at the Security Intelligence Service and let them know their duplicitous Sweepstakes, derailed by Prosnitz's larcenous derailment, could be rebooted.
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See bird's-eye view of train derailment 'Only a matter of time' Anderson again raised safety concerns about the rail line earlier this month, as the opening date for the service approached.
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TAIPEI, Taiwan — Taiwanese investigators found that excessive speed caused a train derailment that killed 18 people, and said Tuesday that the train's driver was considered a possible criminal suspect in the accident.
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A third similar incident, in July, with no apparent injuries, happened just before the start of eight weeks of work on the aging station's tracks, prompted in part by the April derailment.
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The derailment meant that the week ended just as it started, with New Jersey Transit commuters suffering: • On Monday, a shortage of engineers forced the cancellation of a train out of Manhattan.
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At any speed above zero, the physics of derailment are unforgiving: Five people died in a high-speed one that took place around midnight near Union Square in the summer of 1991.
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The southbound A train derailment in Manhattan on Tuesday was caused by a piece of rail that was improperly stored on the tracks, officials at the Metropolitan Transportation Authority said late Tuesday.
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The derailment comes amid other transit problems throughout the region, including the need to make urgent repairs at Pennsylvania Station in Manhattan — the nation's busiest railroad station, where two trains recently derailed.
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It was just over a year ago that America suffered the tragic Amtrak derailment at Philadelphia's Frankford Junction that resulted in the loss of eight lives and injuries to more than 200.
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They pointed to several deadly crashes that were linked to an undiagnosed sleeping disorder, including a 2013 Metro-North train derailment in New York and a New Jersey Transit crash last year.
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The derailment sparked congressional action for more safety regulations on oil train movement in the U.S. The three individuals include an operations manager, a traffic controller and an engineer, the report said.
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Senator Cory Booker, who was in Washington, cited the derailment and the subsequent delays as his reason for voting against a nominee for a top position at the federal Department of Transportation.
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On Wednesday, Scot Naparstek, Amtrak's chief operating officer, said in an interview that the investigation was continuing and that he did not want to draw conclusions about what had caused the derailment.
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During the week of the April 3 derailment, about 161,553 people used New York Waterway, about 28,000 more than during the prior week, said Pat Smith, a spokesman for New York Waterway.
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BRUSSELS, Feb 18 (Reuters) - One person was killed and about 20 injured, two seriously, on Saturday when a carriage toppled onto its side in a train derailment in Belgium, rescue workers said.
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Madan Mohal Nial, 21, a passenger, said in an interview from his hospital bed that he was making the journey to take an exam for a government job when the derailment happened.
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The derailment came three months after a New Jersey Transit commuter train crashed into the Hoboken station, at a major transit hub for Manhattan, killing one person and injuring 108 including the engineer.
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"The shameful part, the disappointing part, is that positive train control should have been implemented nationwide long ago, and it hasn't been," NTSB representative Bella Dinh-Zarr said Tuesday, after the Washington derailment.
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The derailment happened on the first day Amtrak trains began using the new inland route between the Washington cities of Tacoma and Olympia, part of a $181-million project to cut travel time.
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The department did not specify the cause of the derailment, but the Sacramento Bee news site reported early Friday that the passenger train struck a maintenance train that was on the same track.
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In a second interview, in November, Mr. Bostian said he remembered a few more details, including the moments before the derailment as he lurched to one side and began to apply the brakes.
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There was no immediate word on the cause of the derailment, which forced the evacuation of about 212 people from a nearby mobile home park, as the site remained too hot to examine.
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The derailment destroyed a section of the rail line to the city of Hualien, which was hit by an earthquake over the summer and was struck by a less powerful quake on Tuesday.
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Indeed, he quickly summoned an inventory of recent terrible events, the killing of eight people on a bike path in Lower Manhattan this fall, and the derailment of an A train in June.
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The governor of New Jersey wrote a letter to express his displeasure at the rail company's response to this week's train derailment at Pennsylvania Station, the second such incident in as many weeks.
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Andrew Cuomo has declared a state of emergency for the subway system in the wake of Tuesday's derailment on the A train and the constant delays for commuters, he has his marching orders.
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HONG KONG, Sept 17 (Reuters) - A rare train derailment disrupted services in Hong Kong on Tuesday, train authorities said, threatening commuter chaos during rush hour in the heart of the Asian financial hub.
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"More importantly, there was no evidence of unfair manipulation of airfares or capacity, nor evidence of unconscionable increases in fares beyond normal pricing levels, in the aftermath of the derailment," the letter said.
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And shortly after the explosion, an A train rider told the Times columnist Jim Dwyer that he was more frightened of the derailment on the line last summer than of the terrorist attack.
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"Every year we wait in implementing PTC to its full extent, more people are going to be killed," Bella Dinh-Zarr, an NTSB member helping oversee the derailment investigation, told CNN on Tuesday.
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In 2012, a train derailment in Paulsboro, New Jersey, released heavy concentrations of the chemical into Mantua Creek, sending 250 people to the emergency room and stoking fears of long-term health effects.
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Two people were killed and more than three dozen people were injured following the derailment of an Amtrak train Sunday morning after it struck a backhoe on the tracks in Pennsylvania, authorities tell PEOPLE.
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The operations of the second-largest railroad operator in Canada was also hampered in February by a derailment in British Columbia's Rocky Mountains, a busy part of the company's network, killing three crew members.
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"'We Got Him'" compiles reactions to the announcement of Osama bin Laden's death and "Derailed" compiles tweets by media organizations at Former Congressman Patrick Murphy following the Philadelphia Amtrak derailment: Glad you are okay.
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The derailment near Wells, Nevada, about 180 miles (290 km) west of Salt Lake City, Utah, prompted authorities to shut down Interstate-80 in both directions, the Nevada Department of Transportation said on Twitter.
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The 2016 National Transportation Safety Board investigation into the derailment concluded that prior to the crash Bostian was distracted by radio conversations between other trains and dispatchers about other trains being hit with projectiles.
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Sen. Chuck Schumer on Tuesday criticized the Department of Transportation for not "pushing... hard enough" for full implementation of a technology called Positive Train Control, which he believes would have prevented Monday's Amtrak derailment.
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The office said that while evidence indicated the derailment was caused by the engineer operating the train far in excess of the speed limit it found no evidence the engineer acted with criminal intent.
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In the tense environment since the derailment, the idea that the Northwest is now bearing a disproportionate burden of energy transport risk has accelerated local efforts to stop the trains or make them safer.
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News outlets quoted a spokesperson for Sacramento Regional Transit as saying the derailment was the result of a collision between a passenger train and a maintenance train, but the cause is still under investigation.
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A medication switch for non-medically related reasons can cause severe health consequences, including unnecessary side effects, condition derailment, and immunogenicity, an immune reaction with severe implications for the effectiveness of all further treatment.
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Attorney General Josh Shapiro's office said on Tuesday he had filed a notice of appeal, extending what has been a convoluted legal path following the derailment that killed eight and injured more than 200.
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Airlines have been criticized for raising prices in the wake of deadly episodes such as a 2015 Amtrak derailment, but U.S. officials said last year they found no evidence of wrongdoing in that instance.
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PTC was installed on the segment of tracks where the Amtrak Cascades 2106 derailed, but it wasn't operational yet, said Geoff Patrick, spokesman for Sound Transit, which owns the tracks where the derailment occurred.
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But progress has been interrupted by catastrophes, and we cannot soothe ourselves with the thought that the catastrophes will be temporary, even if we can persuade ourselves that temporary bumps cannot cause permanent derailment.
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Then came a partisan derailment that had the makings of a disappointing "Game of Thrones" finale — if all of the characters had pledged to work together, only to let the toilets overflow in Westeros.
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"You had metal peeled back like on a can," said Paul Navarro, a transit worker who helped to repair the damage caused by the derailment of an A train just north of 125th Street.
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It's as if the system has suffered a nervous breakdown, literally running off the rails in a shout for help in the case of the A train derailment on Tuesday (front page, June 28).
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The derailment happened at a notorious choke point inside North America's busiest train station — a crowded and gloomy labyrinth that was never meant to handle a daily flow of 600,1003 passengers and 1,300 trains.
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If there were any lingering doubts about the urgency of the comprehensive repairs to the tracks at Pennsylvania Station in Manhattan, the derailment of another commuter train on Thursday night should have quashed them.
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The derailment occurred at a section where trains entering the station from a tunnel under the Hudson River are switched onto one of the 21 tracks leading to platforms beneath Penn Station's main concourse.
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NTSB inquiry results The 2016 NTSB investigation into the derailment concluded that, prior to the crash, Bostian was distracted by radio conversations between other trains and dispatchers about other trains being hit with projectiles.
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PTC was installed on the segment of tracks where the Amtrak Cascades 22013 derailed, but it wasn't operational yet, said Geoff Patrick, spokesman for Sound Transit, which owns the tracks where the derailment occurred.
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Officials also acknowledged that they had been aware of a defect on the tracks at the site of a derailment on Monday before it occurred, but did not recognize the urgency of the problem.
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Ranking Member Joe ManchinJoseph (Joe) ManchinImpeachment threatens derailment of congressional agenda Senate Democrats hesitant to go all-in on impeachment probe Senate confirms top Interior lawyer accused of lying to Congress MORE (D-W.
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New passenger rail safety technology that would have prevented the Amtrak train derailment in Pennsylvania last year was derided by Sunstein when he was administrator of OIRA as not passing a cost-benefit test.
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Amtrak finished installing the system following a May 2015 derailment about 20 miles (30 km) north of Sunday's crash site caused by an engineer speeding into a curve, which killed eight people and injured 43.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Federal investigators on Monday released thousands of pages about the fatal derailment of an Amtrak passenger train last year in Philadelphia, but the central mystery of what caused the crash remained unexplained.
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Boscher said he would keep an eye on the Chinese corporate bond market as a potential "canary in the coal mine" for the broader financial markets, although any Chinese derailment is not Fidelity's main scenario.
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This thread has led to some serious derailment of the public discussion surrounding Trump's original tweet, including a joke comparing CNN's reaction to the wrestling GIF to the Holocaust, made by NRA spokesperson Dana Loesch.
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Here is a sampling of recent transit mayhem: Off the rails, then off to court A subway derailment in Harlem Tuesday morning injured 39 and brought the subway to a grinding halt for the day.
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"The 2015 CSX train derailment in Mount Carbon, West Virginia caused significant damage and disruption to that community," Susan Bodine, assistant administrator of EPA's Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance, said in a statement Tuesday.
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The fatal derailment of an Amtrak train south of Seattle on Monday could intensify scrutiny of the national passenger railroad company's safety record, which was already under harsh criticism following a series of fatal incidents.
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The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) briefed congressional staff members this week on its investigation of the train derailment near the East Falls Church platform on July 29, releasing a brief report to the public.
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The derailment occurred on the same day that a CSX cargo train struck a tour bus that officials say was stopped at a railroad crossing in Biloxi, Mississippi, in a collision that killed four people.
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The vote on Wednesday was essentially a do-over, and House leadership and the Congressional Progressive Caucus, wary of a repeat derailment, are already urging Democrats to oppose any unrelated amendments that Republicans might add.
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Hospitals in the state are modeling their coronavirus response after a 2017 Amtrak derailment that killed three people and sent 70 to the hospital, he said, expressing confidence in their readiness for a bigger outbreak.
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Investigators said Mr. Bostian was not on his phone and was not under the influence of drugs or alcohol, and his lawyer has said he has no recollection of the events leading to the derailment.
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Ifill, a cousin of the late PBS anchor Gwen Ifill, added she is a regular Amtrak customer who endured a concussion and a broken collarbone in the derailment of a train in Philadelphia in 2015.
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Good morning on this wonderful Wednesday The derailment of a New Jersey Transit train — a relatively minor mishap — at Penn Station in Manhattan on Monday continues to affect commutes in and out of the city.
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The beleaguered transit agency began rolling out a massive new rail repair project in June, but Metro has continued to be plagued by a series of safety lapses, including another train derailment just last month.
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None of the 180 passengers and crew members aboard the New Jersey Transit train that came off the tracks was injured, but the derailment underscored how hazardous the condition of the tracks there has become.
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It follows a string of major oil train disasters, like a crash and explosion that killed 47 in Quebec in 2013, and an Oregon derailment and fire last month right next to the Columbia River.
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That was why the derailment of a New Jersey Transit train near the Hudson River on Monday morning, which knocked out eight tracks, was still disrupting the routines of riders from Long Island on Friday.
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Because of the April 3 derailment at Penn Station, New Jersey Transit expects to be charged about $798,680 for cross-honoring on PATH, New York Waterway and private buses over five days, Ms. Snyder said.
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Mr. Ramslien shared his story just as painstaking efforts to negotiate an end to another decades-long conflict, in Colombia, seemed to be bringing results, despite a last-minute derailment by a national referendum vote.
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The district attorney's office said evidence indicated the derailment was caused by the engineer operating the train far in excess of the speed limit, but it found no evidence that he acted with criminal intent.
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"We have certainly also witnessed how fast the cloud clears for the current longest bull market when there are no substantial concerns to economic growth derailment," said IG market strategist Jingyi Pan in a note.
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While it was not immediately clear who was at fault in the collision, Amtrak's safety record has come under scrutiny after a series of incidents including a derailment south of Seattle in December that killed three.
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Netflix is not planning to remove footage of a real-world train derailment that was used in its fiction film Bird Box, despite outcry from citizens of Lac-Mégantic in Quebec, Canada, The Verge has confirmed.
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The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating the cause of the derailment of Amtrak Cascades Train 501, which sent 12 passenger cars and a locomotive hurtling off a bridge onto Interstate 5 during the morning commute.
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The derailment comes only a few months after India's deadliest rail accident since 2010 -- a tragedy that once again pulled to the fore the issue of how the country's vast rail network is funded and maintained.
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But a number of recent safety lapses — including the derailment and a series of red signal violations — could cast doubt on whether his safety plan is enough to truly transform Metro's culture with regards to safety.
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So with the bears warning of trade wars, market derailment at the hands of the Federal Reserve and the risks of President Donald Trump's agenda not being fulfilled, Cramer said to get used to those arguments.
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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi sent a message on Twitter saying he was pained by the derailment of the Utkal Express, offering condolences to families of those killed and wishing a speedy recovery to the injured.
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ESEKA, Cameroon (Reuters) - Cameroonian rail operator Camrail and eleven other defendants were found guilty of involuntary manslaughter on Wednesday in connection with a train derailment that killed 79 people and wounded over 600 in October 2016.
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"Our community was concerned about the safety of a high-speed passenger rail line coming through an urbanized area on what had been, for years, essentially an abandoned rail route," Anderson told CNN after the derailment.
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The charges were filed in May by Attorney General Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania, who brought the case two years to the day after the derailment and shortly before the statute of limitations was thought to expire.
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Early evidence suggests that the Amtrak rails were to blame for the derailment of a New Jersey Transit train at Pennsylvania Station in New York on Monday that has caused delays and cancellations across the region.
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And, more recently, he blamed a corrosive and cutthroat culture in Washington — not his own administration's lack of vetting — for the derailment of White House physician Ronny Jackson's nomination to run the Department of Veterans Affairs.
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A preliminary investigation found that an "improperly secured piece of replacement rail" that had been stored on the tracks was the cause of the derailment, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority said in a statement issued late Tuesday.
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He also appeared on cable news to criticize Amtrak after its rails were found to have caused the derailment of a New Jersey Transit train at Pennsylvania Station — causing weeklong delays and cancellations across the region.
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The derailment on Tuesday morning occurred as a train entered the Hung Hom Station, which sits across the city's harbor from Hong Kong Island and is also the terminus for rail service to the Chinese mainland.
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Responding to the latest derailment, a former railways minister, Dinesh Trivedi, stated what should now be evident to Mr. Modi: "Time has come for the government to focus more on operations of railways rather than cosmetics."
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Fire departments from Frederick County in Maryland and Jefferson and Washington counties in West Virginia, as well as the CSX Police Department, responded to the derailment, according to a spokeswoman at the Washington County 911 dispatch.
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Amtrak officials want to avoid the chaos that ensued this month when they closed eight of the station's 21 tracks after a derailment, said the official, who was not authorized to discuss the railroad's plans publicly.
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The district attorney's office had said evidence indicated the derailment was caused by the engineer operating the train far in excess of the speed limit, but it found no evidence that he acted with criminal intent.
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Cuban's hope that the season could avoid a complete derailment most likely stemmed from a Wednesday afternoon conference call conducted by the N.B.A. with owners and high-ranking representatives from each of the league's 30 teams.
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The derailment of Amtrak Train No. 22008, making the inaugural run of a new service from Seattle to Portland, dropped a 20153-ton locomotive in the southbound lanes of the Northwest's busiest travel corridor, Interstate 22015.
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The technology automatically stops a train to prevent a derailment or crash but it is in operation on only 19693 percent of tracks owned by freight railroads and 24 percent of tracks owned by passenger railways.
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The NTSB blamed the absence of PTC, which automatically slows trains when they exceed the speed limit on a stretch of track, for the 2015 derailment of an Amtrak train in Philadelphia that left eight people dead.
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On Saturday, 23 people were killed and 123 injured in another derailment near the Hindu holy city of Haridwar that led to the suspension of three senior railways officials and three others being forced to take leave.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday that the derailment of a train, which sent train cars crashing onto a major highway and killed passengers, in Washington state showed the necessity of an infrastructure plan.
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The derailment was India's deadliest train crash since 2010 and has renewed concern about the poor safety standard of the state-run network, which is a lifeline for millions of Indians but has suffered from chronic underinvestment.
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The derailment sparked calls to improve rail safety in North America, with Canada ending the use of one-man crews to move dangerous goods and enhancing protection standards for tank cars used to transport crude by rail.
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MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Glencore will have some "short-term" delays in its coking coal shipments after a train derailment on freight operators Aurizon Holdings train system in Queensland, Australia, on Sunday, the miner and trader said on Thursday.
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NTSB inquiry results The 2016 National Transportation Safety Board investigation into the derailment concluded that prior to the crash Bostian was distracted by radio conversations between other trains and dispatchers about other trains being hit with projectiles.
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A National Transportation Safety Board spokesperson told Mashable that the organization is still in the early stages of its investigation and is not yet commenting on the derailment or whether positive train control may have prevented it.
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"I looked outside and there was black and white smoke blowing across the sky, and I could hear the flames," said Mosier resident Dan Hoffman, 32, whose house is about 100 meters (3603 ft) from the derailment.
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A recent derailment in the Pacific Northwest has overshadowed the fact that freight rail transportation on the whole is remarkably safe, with 99.999 percent of all hazardous material shipments traveling by rail reaching their destinations without incident.
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Investigators said the catastrophe might have been prevented if the area of the derailment had been equipped with positive train control, a system Amtrak has since installed on tracks it owns between Washington and New York City.
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They most likely saved her from a crippling mental health crisis, prevented the derailment of her education and ultimately enabled her to become a psychiatric nurse practitioner who can help other young people avert a psychiatric crisis.
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The derailment was caused by defective timber ties that allowed the rails to widen, causing the wheel of a train car to derail, according to Mike Tolbert, a spokesman for Amtrak, which owns and operates the station.
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The devastating Amtrak Cascades train 2197 derailment Monday happened while the train was racing at about 20163 miles per hour — far above the speed limit of 22016 miles per hour, the National Transportation Safety Board said on Tuesday.
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In the wake of the derailment of Amtrak 188, a new wrought-metal fence went up near Frankford Junction, but at the time, access to the tracks was as simple as lifting a scrap of chain-link fence.
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While the National Transportation Safety Board did not lay blame on the train's engineer or identify a probable cause for the derailment, officials said they would release their full findings and possibly recommendations in the next few months.
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The rules partially address recommendations made by the National Transportation Safety Board after a 2013 crude-by-rail derailment killed 47 people in the town of Lac Megantic in Quebec and released 1.6 million gallons of crude oil.
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Sunday's derailment in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh was India's deadliest train tragedy since 2500 and has renewed concern about poor safety on the state-run network, a lifeline for millions that has suffered from chronic underinvestment.
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A slow-moving NJ Transit train left the rails during rush hour at New York City's Penn Station on Monday, the second derailment involving Amtrak-maintained tracks at the busy Midtown Manhattan hub in fewer than two weeks.
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A railroad operator is settling with the government for $2.2 million in penalties over the 2015 derailment of an oil tanker in a small West Virginia town that spilled thousands of gallons of oil and burst into flames.
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The service suspension will allow the PATH to install automated safety technology that helps control train speed and movements and is designed to prevent collisions or accidents, like the derailment of an Amtrak train in Philadelphia in 2015.
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Investigators said they did not know yet whether the safety technology could have prevented the crash, but they have said it could have prevented other crashes, including an Amtrak derailment in Philadelphia last year that killed eight people.
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No one was injured, but the track defect that caused the derailment had been detected a month earlier and ignored, reflecting "a system breakdown that was simply unacceptable," said Peter Goelz, a transportation consultant who has advised Metro.
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On Friday, the aftermath of the derailment gave travelers who rely on the railroad, New Jersey Transit, a glimpse of how their ride could get worse: What if there were only one track for crossing the Hudson River?
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On July 21970, another set of ties broke under New Jersey Transit No. 25, just north of where the April derailment occurred, disrupting traffic yet again and cementing the impression among commuters that Penn Station was falling apart.
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The crew did not activate the emergency brake before the derailment on Monday morning, said Bella Dinh-Zarr, the National Transportation Safety Board official overseeing the investigation, which might indicate that the engineer failed to perceive the danger.
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The incarceration of African-American men for nonviolent crimes, and the consequent derailment of their lives, is a main concern of this quietly frenzied play, directed by Kip Fagan with a distancing, cockeyed surreality at the Wild Project.
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The derailment on Monday of a New Jersey Transit train did not just cripple New Jersey Transit; it also disrupted service on Amtrak and the Long Island Rail Road, the two other rail systems that share Penn Station.
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And this time the disruptions are likely to linger as officials warned on Tuesday that it could take several days to make repairs and restore full service after the derailment knocked out eight of the station's 21 tracks.
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Missing in the deal, however, were any new money for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which had been subject of a late push as New York City's subway system continued to suffer from delays and a derailment on Tuesday.
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The derailment spurred House Democrats earlier this month to introduce new legislation to accelerate the implementation of a train safety feature called Positive Train Control (PTC), which automatically decreases the speed of a train traveling over the limit.
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"I feel like the ride wasn't checked well enough," Trevor Gutierrez, a 13-year-old from Atlanta who rode the 2,710 foot-long coaster after its re-opening, told the Daytona Beach News-Journal following Thursday night&aposs derailment.
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Faulty signal boxes were dismissed as a possible contributing factor, as were track anomalies and major problems with the locomotive: Data from the black box showed the engine was working perfectly well right up to the moment of derailment.
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Statscan said the transportation and warehousing sector dropped by 1.6 percent, the biggest fall since June 2011, as cold weather, snowfall and a derailment hit rail transport and shipments of iron ore, potash and fuel oils and crude petroleum.
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Shut out of bond markets after a fiscal derailment, Greece officially asked for a bailout in April 2010 with the International Monetary Fund and its euro zone partners granting 110 billion euros in loans to avert a financial meltdown.
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Given the civic actions of the two, as-yet unnamed homeless individuals who prevented the detonation of five bombs and a possible train derailment, perhaps the state could begin to look at its homeless population in a new light.
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One baseball fan was totally miffed this week when a train derailment in New York City nearly caused him to miss his first New York Mets home opener in two decades – and the whole meltdown was caught on camera.
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As a result of the first derailment alone, over 300,000 New Jersey Transit and Long Island Rail Road passengers were delayed, and the second caused eight of the 21 tracks under Penn Station to be shut down for days.
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But the derailment also exposed another complication in the region's transportation system: While New York City relies on the rail system to carry a sizable portion of its work force, it has little say over how that system operates.
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The track closings might force some trains to be redirected to Hoboken Terminal in New Jersey, which is still partly closed because of damage from the fatal derailment of a New Jersey Transit train at the station last year.
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The 2013 derailment of freight train carrying oil intended for a New Brunswick refinery kindled a blaze that claimed 47 lives in the eastern Quebec town and dumped an estimated 26,000 gallons of crude into the nearby Chaudière River.
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The 33 derailment of freight train carrying oil intended for a New Brunswick refinery kindled a blaze that claimed 47 lives in the eastern Quebec town and dumped an estimated 26,000 gallons of crude into the nearby Chaudière River.
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On August 19, 23 people were killed and 123 injured in a derailment near the Hindu holy city of Haridwar in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, prompting the suspension of three senior railways officials, with others sent on leave.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Two New York City subway supervisors were suspended without pay on Wednesday, a day after a derailment in Manhattan that injured 34 people and was blamed on a piece of unsecured replacement track, the transit authority said.
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CHICAGO, Dec 8 (Reuters) - A Mondelez International Inc flour mill in Toledo, Ohio, is expected to resume operations on Friday following a freight train derailment that knocked out power to the mill earlier this week, a company representative said on Thursday.
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A Yancoal spokesman said that its Moolarben Coal complex had been directly impacted by the train derailment but that it was too early to advise of any potential impact to customers, as it awaited confirmation of when haulage would restart.
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The stretch of track where the derailment happened had previously been used by slow-moving freight trains but was recently upgraded to handle passenger trains as part of a $181 million project to cut travel time between Tacoma and Olympia.
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MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Yancoal said on Thursday that some of its operations in Australia's New South Wales state had been affected by the derailment of a coal train, but that it was too early to advise customers of any potential impact.
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The fallout from the probe has already seen the derailment of a planned initial public offering worth up $4.5 billion for Lotte's hotel and duty free unit, as well as Lotte Chemical bowing out of bidding for a U.S. company.
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While BHP said that it expected some interruption to its iron ore exports after the derailment, which forced the suspension of its rail operations, Chief executive Andrew Mackenzie said in November that the miner would meet its commitments to customers.
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Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo of New York said on Tuesday that conductors and engineers with two commuter railroads must be tested for sleep apnea, following a deadly derailment in 2013 that occurred after an engineer nodded off while on the job.
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At least 75 others were admitted to hospitals, many of them with head injuries and fractures, and the death toll was likely to rise, said Rahul Srivastav, a spokesman for the police in Uttar Pradesh State, where the derailment took place.
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The derailment on Sunday, which injured 190 other people, happened in the northeastern county of Yilan as the southbound train entered a curve at 87 miles per hour, according to a government task force commissioned by Premier Lai Ching-te.
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The stakes are high, with some Democrats hoping that a derailment of Judge Kavanaugh's confirmation could buy them time to win back the Senate in the November midterm elections, and, consequently, gain control over the confirmation of Mr. Trump's next nominee.
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The fact that the train was on its inaugural run — and that the tracks had only recently been improved — may have contributed to the derailment, said Allan Zarembski, a professor of railroad safety and engineering at the University of Delaware.
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Rochon, who was also the lead counsel on the Lac Megantic derailment lawsuit that eventually pulled a settlement of $2100 million, says the Rana Plaza workers and their families are entitled to much more than what the company has already paid.
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The National Transportation Safety Board recently announced that the derailment was due to human error, an all too common occurrence in accidents, which according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration contributes to 85033 percent of the accidents on our highways.
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Next-generation safety technology needs to be integrated into these systems – technology which sees more than the human eye – can automatically detect splits in railroad track, or a "hot" defective wheel bearing that could fail and lead to a derailment.
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Union groups argued that the step is essential for protecting against the human error and fatigue that can lead to deadly accidents, pointing to an Amtrak derailment near Philadelphia last year and a deadly oil train explosion in Quebec in 2013.
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As Mr. Trump discussed his plan, hundreds of thousands of commuters endured a third day of upheaval prompted by a minor derailment at Pennsylvania Station, another reminder of the decrepit, tenuous state of much of the region's infrastructure and transit systems.
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Mr. Moorman, speaking to reporters at Penn Station on Thursday, said that Amtrak had been aware of the defective ties involved in the derailment as a result of regular inspections, but had not properly assessed the immediacy of the problem.
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There will be hand-wringing even among the people who judge him guilty, with women very much included, over the loss of his bright future -- as if its derailment were not his fault, and the envisaged path were his birthright.
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The absence of PTC, which automatically slows down trains when they exceed the speed limit on a stretch of track, was blamed by the National Transportation Safety Board for the 2015 derailment of an Amtrak train in Philadelphia that left eight people dead.
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Amtrak has started settling lawsuits with victims of last year's deadly derailment in Philadelphia, and lawyers involved in the process say a strict confidentiality provision prevents them and their clients from talking about how they're doing or how much money they've received.
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Deaths and injuries from train collisions or derailment in India more than halved to 224 people last fiscal year from a year ago, railways data showed, amid attempts to improve its shoddy safety record through mega investments and recruitments.
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The main factors that, individually or collectively, could trigger negative rating action are: - Deterioration in policy coherence and credibility, leading to a loss of investor confidence, or a derailment of the International Monetary Fund supported programme that leads to external funding stress.
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MONTREAL (Reuters) - A Canadian judge on Tuesday told jurors to continue deliberations, despite their difficulty in reaching a verdict in the joint trial of three former rail employees in the 2013 Lac Megantic train derailment that killed 47 in Quebec, local media said.
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On this show, Meredith Grey has suffered numerous car crashes (one that killed her late husband Derek Shepherd), a plane crash (that killed many of her friends and colleagues), in addition to a boat crash, a train derailment, and a dozen other problems.
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The derailment was the greatest loss of life in a British rail accident since seven people were killed and 70 injured when a high-speed train from London came off the tracks at Potters Bar station north of the capital in 2002.
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The FTA report also said Metro employees were not properly inspecting tracks prior to last month's Silver Line derailment, which occurred near the East Falls Church station in Virginia on a section where trains cross over from one set of tracks to another.
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According to the transcript in the Cole case, Colonel Spath said the events that had led to its derailment "have demonstrated significant flaws within the commissions process," and he accused defense lawyers of trying to block the system rather than working within it.
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Gov. Chris Christie directed New Jersey Transit late Wednesday to halt all payments to Amtrak because of a train derailment on Monday and subsequent delays that have ensnarled Garden State commuters this week, according to two letters obtained by The New York Times.
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Mr. Christie also cited a derailment from two weeks ago, when an Amtrak Acela train derailed in the same area as Monday's accident, causing delays for New Jersey riders who were directed in and out of neighboring stations in Hoboken and Newark.
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Mr. Cuomo did not visit the derailment site, as he did when a Long Island Rail Road train derailed in January; his office said he traveled on Tuesday morning to Albany, where he called a special legislative session to begin on Wednesday.
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But even if one could explain Mr. Handke's moral derailment with his intellectual skepticism, or with his uncritical sentimentalization of the Balkans, rooted in his family history, it is hard to grasp what could cause him to worship a monster like Mr. Milosevic.
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The FTA, which assumed oversight of Washington's transit authority last fall, began its investigation this spring amid concerns about a train derailment last year and a tunnel fire in March that led to a daylong shutdown of the entire system for emergency inspections.
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" This derailment was less disruptive than the previous ones, Mr. Naparstek said, "because the infrastructure damage to the tracks and other components was relatively minor, which is why, fortunately, we were able to return the station to pretty much to full capacity.
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Days after a train derailment in New York and ongoing transit delays in Washington, D.C., Emanuel penned an op-ed for The New York Times in which he exalted Chicago's "modernized" transportation system and boasted of an 85 percent passenger satisfaction rate.
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Read more about the NTSB update on the Amtrak derailment in Washington state A CNN investigation found that engineers and conductors had warned their supervisors that they did not feel adequately trained on the new route, according to more than a dozen sources.
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Short enough — and gripping enough — to read in a single sitting, Jenny Offill offers us a portrait of a marriage that blooms with the happy certainty of youth but sours after the birth of a baby and the derailment of best-laid plans.
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MELBOURNE (Reuters) - An emergency crew called out to manually apply handbrakes to a 268-car iron ore train in the Australian outback mistakenly put the brakes on the wrong train, according to a preliminary report into a runaway train derailment last year.
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Nor is the hand-wringing over why it's yet to be widely installed; it came up after the 2015 Northeast regional Amtrak derailment outside Philadelphia that killed eight, and 2016's New Jersey commuter rail crash in Hoboken that killed one and injured scores.
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Washington (CNN)A federal investigation into the Amtrak 188 derailment that killed eight people and injured more than 200 in Philadelphia last year has concluded that the train's engineer, Brandon Bostian, was distracted prior to the crash, according to the National Transportation Safety Board.
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The U.S. dollar was flat against most major currencies on Monday but lost ground to the Japanese yen after U.S. President Donald Trump said he would sharply raise tariffs on Chinese goods this week, risking the derailment of trade talks between Washington and Beijing.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. regulators on Wednesday proposed a rule on trains carrying crude that requires railroads to share information on the shipments with local governments and emergency responders, a month after a fiery derailment of an oil train along Oregon's scenic Columbia River gorge.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Labor Department has taken a first step toward possible derailment or dilution of its controversial rule on retirement advice as it begins to re-examine it at the directive of President Donald Trump, according to a notice made public on Wednesday.
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In the year that has passed since the first women came forward to tell The New Yorker and the New York Times our stories of harassment, rape, assault, and career derailment at the hands of Harvey Weinstein, the country has begun to change, albeit slowly.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - New Jersey Governor Chris Christie has ordered the state to halt all payments to Amtrak and called for an investigation of the national rail operator's maintenance of tracks and other equipment after the derailment of an NJ Transit train this week.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell on Thursday called on Congress to hold a hearing on Amtrak safety standards and the state of federal rail safety regulations after an Amtrak derailment earlier this week killed three and injured more than 70 people south of Seattle.
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These are the questions investigators will be asking about the derailment Most of the route was graded for a maximum speed of 79 mph, but the speed limit on the curve where the crash occurred is 30 mph, said Rachelle Cunningham of Sound Transit.
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Already, the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) system in and around San Francisco has connected the early detection network to its rail service to automatically slow down its trains, and hopefully reduce the risk of a derailment, if a major earthquake is about to strike, Arba said.
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"The engineer, apparently from what we understand, was quite vigilant: noticed that there was something wrong with the tracks; put the train into emergency braking early in that process; and that was probably responsible for the train derailment not being any worse than it was," Weener said.
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There was no indication Monday that the train derailment was in any way connected to anti-fracking sentiment in the area, but Mike Cernovich, a pro-Trump blogger and conspiracy theorist, was one of the first people to suggest the connection between the It's Going Down!
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She said the protest was in "direct response" to a June 3 derailment of a Union Pacific train that spilled 42,000 gallons of crude and started a fire in the town of Mosier, Oregon, along the Columbia River, which marks the border between Washington and Oregon.
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The fallout from the broader probe into the Lotte business empire has already seen the derailment of a planned initial public offering worth up $4.5 billion for the group's hotel and duty free unit, as well as Lotte Chemical bowing out of bidding for a U.S. company.
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A train derailment last month near Kenitra 15 km (10 miles) north of Rabat, which killed seven people and injured 125 others, triggered calls for a better allocation of resources by giving priority to improving safety and infrastructure as well as punctuality of basic railway services.
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Additionally, once the new tunnel is done and the existing tunnels are repaired, the increased capacity will mean that even when there is a shutdown, problem or derailment, service can continue with only minor delays because trains will be able to pass the derailed or broken locomotive.
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Airlines' customer service practices have come under fire in recent months, and just last year, U.S. carriers were cleared in a federal investigation regarding exorbitant fare mark-ups in the wake of a deadly Amtrak derailment that drove up demand for air travel on some routes.
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Here's a summary of that issue with a lot of reporting from CNN's Gregory Wallace and Rene Marsh: Positive Train Control, or PTC, is intended to prevent crashes like two of the recent Amtrak incidents, the derailment in Washington State and this weekend's collision in South Carolina.
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The Twist Once David's course is set, he shakes hands with Elijah and finds out the terrible truth: the art dealer is, in fact, a supervillain who caused the train derailment (and several other horrible "accidents" before it) in order to flush out his superhero nemesis.
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Speaking by cellphone from an Amtrak train rolling through upstate New York bound for Montreal, a long-planned trip with a friend, Mr. Kenton said that as soon as he heard about the derailment of Train 501, he worried that it would be full of rail enthusiasts.
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Federal officials investigating an Amtrak derailment in Philadelphia last year left open the possibility on Monday that human error led to the crash as they released documents showing that no problems were found with the train or with the tracks and signals at the site of the accident.
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Angels Flight has its own bumpy history, including a move down the block in 1969 that took nearly 30 years (it re-opened in '96), a fatal accident that shut it down in 2001 for nearly a decade, and that minor derailment in 2013 that revealed major safety issues.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. dollar slipped to a five-week low against the yen and fell versus other currencies on Monday after U.S. President Donald Trump said he would sharply raise tariffs on Chinese goods this week, risking the derailment of trade talks between Washington and Beijing.
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The derailment came one day after a Metro safety official told board members that a train operator who ran a red signal last month — nearly hitting an oncoming passenger train and two track workers — was in a rush to take his lunch break and had his radio turned off.
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Amtrak has agreed to pay up to $265 million in one of the largest rail crash settlements in the United States, for claims related to a high-speed derailment in Philadelphia last year that killed eight and injured more than 200, according to a court order issued on Thursday.
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Mr. McMonagle said the accident was the result not of "a criminal who stoned passenger trains in the night," a reference to an episode shortly before the derailment in which a local passenger train traveling in the opposite direction was struck by a rock that broke its wind screen.
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So far, the investigation into the derailment has focused on the condition of the tracks, rather than on human error or mechanical problems with the train, according to an official in New Jersey who was briefed on the inquiry but who was not authorized to discuss it publicly.
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The derailment, which disrupted the morning commute for thousands of riders, was reminiscent of a deadly crash in September in which a New Jersey Transit train plowed through a bumper at the end of a track at Hoboken Terminal, killing a woman and injuring more than 793 people.
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The derailment comes one day after a Metro safety official told board members that a train operator who ran a red signal earlier this month — nearly hitting an oncoming passenger train and two track workers — was in a rush to take his lunch break and had his radio turned off.
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"As I'm sitting on my train ride home after having to take the PATH and then the train at Hoboken thanks to yet another NJT derailment, I am comforted by scrolling through the past month of angry NJT riders and remembering that I'm not alone," Regine Labossiere posted on the page.
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The New Jersey Transit derailment on April 27, which prompted days of travel headaches, is just the latest chapter in a long history of fires, strikes, bombs, electrical problems, power outages, crashes and other problems that have temporarily shut down tracks or reduced train service at the nation's busiest transit hub.
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