Fifty-seven Train Derailments Since March 30,2015

June 15, 2015 Kennard, Nebraska - A Union Pacific train derailed on a track in Kennard, Nebraska  Source

June 13, 2015 AMAZONIA, Mo.  - A train with 31 coal cars has derailed near the small northwest Missouri town of Amazonia. Source

June 13, 2015 Sudbury, Ont.- A train derailed west of Sudbury, Ont., near Fairbanks Provincial Park, police confirmed Saturday.Sudbury police said several cars came off the tracks Saturday at approximately 12:40 p.m.The Huron Central train was not carrying any hazardous materials, and no one was injured, police said. Source

June 11, 2015 Houston, Texas- Two railroad cars plunged from a bridge when a freight train jumped the tracks. The train was operated by Kansas City Southern Railway Company. Company officials said the 84-car train was en route from Beaumont to Kendleton when the derailment occurred. Source

June 11, 2015 EUREKA, Mo. – A stretch of railroad tracks in Eureka have reopened two days after a train derailed near the Crescent Farms Golf Club. SOURCE

June 11, 2015 MONROE, La - Monroe Police report a train derailment at Washington Street and 18th Street in Monroe.Director of Ouachita Parish Homeland Security Neal Brown says the train had 42 cars in all. Only 5 – 6 cars were derailed and tipping to one side. Source

June 11, 2015 Tulsa, OK- As many as six freight cars derailed and overturned in west Tulsa about midnight Wednesday.Burlington Northern Santa Fe officials said the rail cars went off the track in the Cherokee Yard, located in the 2300 block of Southwest Boulevard. Source

June 11, 2015 Kenesaw, NE - A BNSF train derailed southwest of Kenesaw Wednesday night. A company spokesperson says the derailment happened around 8 p.m. near 26th Rd. and Denman Ave.
The spokesperson say the train was headed east when high winds during a severe thunderstorm blew over some of the cars. BNSF says seven of the 72 cars derailed. Source

June 9, 2015 IOWA- Three Iowa train derailments in less than 24 hours. On Monday night, a Union Pacific train derailed in Sioux City.Then, on Tuesday, around 1 am, a train derailed in both Mason City and Waterloo. The reason for the derailments is still a mystery.SOURCE

June 9, 2015 Mason City, IA train ran off of its tracks near West Park at the corner of North Jackson Avenue and 1st Street NW in Mason City.It happened around 1:30 a.m. on Tuesday morning. Crews from Union Pacific spent most of the day on the scene working to get the train back on the track. Union Pacific spokesman Mark Davis tells us no one was injured in the incident.Source

June 6, 2015 Wyamo, Wyoming - Train Derailment closes highway 336. The train derailed at about 5:30 this morning. No one was injured in the incident. The section of roadway was expected to be open by noon. Source

June 10, 2015 | Fox 23 | TULSA, Ok —Tulsa police have reopened an overpass that was closed due to a train derailment in West Tulsa. Source

June 10, 2015 | Grand Forks Herald| T. PAUL PARK, Minn. — Gov. Mark Dayton visited the site of an oil train-truck wreck Source

June 1, 2015 Memphis, TN - it didn’t catch fire and no one was injured but a tanker car derailed Monday in Memphis, drawing a heavy response from firefighters. Source

May 28, 2015 | Pioneer Press |  A Canadian National Railway trestle near International Falls, Minn., caught fire early Wednesday, damaging several railroad cars that were caught on the burning span before it collapsed.Source

May 24, 2015 | The Bismark Tribune | HEIMDAL (AP) — Residents of a small North Dakotacommunity are seeing what’s left over from the derailment of an oil train carrying about 180,000 gallons of crude. Source

May 19, 2015| WAFB|ADDIS, LA (WAFB) -Four chemical tankers derailed at the interchange on Peter Messina Road in Addis around 1:30 p.m. Tuesday. Officials ordered the evacuation of Acadian Crossing and Sunset neighborhoods, and areas within 1,000 feet from the derailment site. Source

May 18, 2015 | The Hill | Chicago, Philadelphia and Sacramento, Calif.: These are just a few of the cities within the “blast zones” of mile-long trains carrying flammable crude oil across the country. Twenty-five million Americans live in these vulnerable areas. Source

May 15, 2015 | CNN | Barrington, Illinois Bomb trains threat to a small town. On the surface, this is a tidy, upscale community in suburban Chicago where the biggest headache is the commute to downtown. Source 

May 13, 2015 | Reuters |  An Amtrak passenger train with more than 200 passengers on board derailed in north Philadelphia on Tuesday night, killing at least five people and injuring dozens of others, several of them critically, authorities said. source

May 8, 2015 | Business Insider| AUSTIN, Texas(Reuters) – Four people were injured when a BNSF freight train derailed in northern Texas on Friday, with high winds and flooding likely causing it to go off the tracks, a company spokesman said. Source

May 6, 2015 |BISMARCK, N.D. — Oil train derailment prompts evacuation. An official says a train was hauling crude from North Dakota’s oil patch when it derailed and caught fire in a rural area of the state. Source

May 6, 2015 | Quad Cities Online| EAST MOLINE— Railroad officials are trying to determine why a pair of tanker cars  came off  the tracks in East Moline on Monday. According to hazardous material numbers on various tanker cars, contents included acetone, anhydrous ammonia and isopropanol, a highly flammable chemical that “may form an explosive mixture when mixed with air,” according to cameochemicals.noaa.gov. Source

April 28, 2015| WLS TV News| A freight train derailed on the city’s Far South Side, affecting commuter train service between Chicago and northwest Indiana. Source

April 22, 2015| KYTX |  LONGVIEW (KYTX) – More than a dozen Longview families are riding out a voluntary evacuation at a local rec center, after a train derailment late Tuesday in the Bivins Addition neighborhood. Source

April  22, 2015| KOLO News| GREENVILLE, CA – No one was hurt in the derailment of a small freight train Source

April 18th, 2015 | KWQC | GALENA, Ill(KWQC)-“It was serious, thank goodness no one was injured or killed, “Galena Mayor Terry Renner says the response to the train derailment south of town was incredible, hundreds of first responders flocked to the site.Source

April 14, 2015 | KOAA| Residents in nearly 70 homes were instructed to shelter in place — remaining at home with the doors and windows closed — Sunday night following a train derailment near the Drake Power Plant in downtown Colorado Springs.  Source

April 11, 2015 | WBTW | RENTON, SC – A Civil Emergency Message was activated Friday night after a train derailment in Edgefield County.Source

April 10, 2015 | The East Oregonian | Union Pacific Railroad is still looking into what caused a train hauling hazardous materials to derail in a remote and forested area of the Blue Mountains near Meacham. Source

April 9, 2015 | OC Register | Metrolink officials said Wednesday following a derailment that they hoped to have regular service restored by Thursday. Source

April 3, 2015 | KWCH|WICHITA, Kan. - Crews responded to a train derailment north of downtown Wichita Thursday morning.   Crews were called to the tracks along Santa Fe between 13th and 21st Street shortly after 5 a.m. Source

April 3, 2015 | WBRC|IRONDALE, AL (WBRC) – All roads have reopened near Irondale City Hall after a train derailed on Tuesday night. Crew have also finished repairing the rails damaged in that derailment. Souce

March 30, 2015 | CNY Central | SX says there were no spills, after two tanker cars derailed in the train yards in Minoa early Saturday morning.Source