Train derailments and explosions and chemical spills

U.S.
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U.S. NTSB database for rail accidents (includes investigations - looks like since 1981):

Rail Accident

www.ntsb.gov www.ntsb.gov

Here is a query database that includes other (planes, boats etc.)


Canada
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The TSB cites 448 accidents (Rail) with investigations available:

Rail transportation safety investigations and reports​

Rail transportation safety investigations and reports - Transportation Safety Board of Canada

Rail transportation safety investigations and reports
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RT just cited another (Sunday):

www.rt.com

Another US chemical train derails

A freight train spilled its cargo of liquid asphalt in rural North Dakota on Sunday
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A Canadian Pacific Railway freight train derailed in North Dakota on Sunday, spilling hazardous liquid asphalt. The crash is the latest in a spate of derailments across the US, one of which caused a devastating release of toxic chemicals.

The incident took place near the town of Wyndmere shortly after 11pm on Sunday night, a Canadian Pacific spokesman told local media. Richland County Emergency Manager Brett Lambrecht said that 31 cars of the 70-car train left the track, some of which were carrying liquid asphalt.

Liquid asphalt is a flammable petroleum-based product, but Lambrecht said that cold temperatures will allow the material to solidify and reduce the chance of fire.

The cleanup operation is expected to last between seven and ten days, local radio reported, citing emergency workers.
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Another train derailment in US. Raymond, Minnesota. A Train hauling ethanol derailed, igniting several cars and forcing nearby residents to evacuate, CNN news.
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A train hauling ethanol derailed in Raymond, Minnesota, igniting several rail cars and forcing nearby residents to evacuate, officials said. CNN's Gabe Cohen has the details.
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The irony - Paradise again . . .

At Least 25 Train Cars Derail In Paradise, Montana Unknown Substance Leaking In The Clark Fork River (VIDEO)

A freight train derailed in Paradise, Montana, on Sunday, with no injuries or evacuations reported, authorities said.
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First responders say there is no threat to the public, but there has yet to be confirmation about what the affected containers were carrying. Montana Rail Link, which owns the railroad, is aware of the situation, but the company that owns the train has yet to be identified, according to NBC Montana.
 
If terrorizing is the objective, then that goal is being reached - the 2017 Hyndman, Pennsylvania train crash:

The True Dangers of Long Trains
Harry Shaffer’s wife called to him from across the living room, where he’d fallen asleep on the couch, exhausted from installing an aboveground pool. Did he hear that sound, that metallic screeching from up the valley? She opened the door of their double-wide trailer and walked outside as Shaffer closed his eyes.

A moment later came a thunderous crack of splintering lumber. Debris shot through the living room. Shaffer opened his eyes again to find a hulking train car steps from where he lay. It had shorn off the roof, exposing the murk of the pre-dawn sky. He jumped up and ran outside and saw the garage next door in flames.
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An aerial view of the Hyndman crash Credit:CSX Train Derailment with Hazardous Materials Release via National Transportation Safety Board

That summer morning, the sky was burning red when Shaffer, a thin, stoic man of 50, surveyed his neighborhood. Mounds of what looked like grain had spilled from the train cars and molten sulfur, like lava, crawled across the grass. He spotted his wife standing on a neighbor’s porch, but before he could process the relief, he saw another neighbor, Kristina Sutphin, screaming from a second-story window. “Help me!” she yelled. “I can’t get out!”

Sutphin, 27, had thought it was an earthquake when her house started shaking, and she’d rolled on top of her 2-year-old daughter, Mia, to protect her. When it stopped, she hit the lights and found drywall dust everywhere. Her house, too, had been struck by a train car, knocking a wall panel studded with nails over the stairs, trapping her and her daughter as the fire outside grew.

Shaffer ran for a ladder, but the train car had demolished one side of his home, including the bedroom where, on any other night, he and his wife would have been sleeping and where his German shepherd, Diamond, had her kennel. He couldn’t see Diamond, and he wouldn’t learn until a few days later that she had been crushed to death.

By the time he got to Sutphin, her brother had run across the street and a neighbor had arrived with a ladder. Her brother climbed up and carried Mia down as Sutphin followed behind. Volunteer firefighters, fear on their faces, raced door to door, urging people to evacuate.

For longtime residents, it felt like another dark chapter: In 1949, a Christmas tree fire burned through dozens of businesses and homes; a flood in 1984 lapped at door frames and swamped basements; and in 1996, another flood submerged window sills in brown, swirling water.

But this disaster, thought Bobby Walls, Hyndman’s 36-year-old emergency manager, was something else. He’d grown up in Hyndman, starting a family in the green, peaceful valley. Now a flaming geyser towered over the rooftops, and Walls wondered: Was anyone dead? As he ran toward the blaze in his firefighting gear, Walls didn’t know that the tanker car at its center contained propane — enough that if it erupted and set off the six others around it, the explosion could engulf the entire town of some 900 people.

The tanker car still howled about seven hours later as Walls and a number of first responders waited in a cinderblock-walled classroom for word from a train company crew that was monitoring the fire. Then, the door flung open. The room quieted as a CSX worker hustled to the whiteboard and began to write.

The tanker car is rapidly failing.

An explosion is imminent.

We need to evacuate now.
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Read more to learn how disasters like this became inevitable.
 
There happened a train accident in the Netherlands in The Hague this morning. It is reported that one person got killed and about 30 persons got injured, and the train hit a construction crane on the road.

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Netherlands train crashes into maintenance crane, killing one; dozens hurt

A Dutch passenger train rammed into a maintenance crane that stood on the railway tracks early on Tuesday near The Hague, killing the equipment operator and injuring dozens of passengers as the train derailed.
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Antony said:
In North Dakota, a train carrying hazardous materials derailed: more than 30 cars.
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Joe said:
Another train derailment in the US. Kelso, California. 55 cars derailed + 2 locomotives. Allegedly, crew jumped off and train was runaway for over 1hr.
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JEEP said:
A freight train derailed in Paradise, Montana, on Sunday, with no injuries or evacuations reported, authorities said.
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Gawan said:
www.reuters.com

Netherlands train crashes into maintenance crane, killing one; dozens hurt

A Dutch passenger train rammed into a maintenance crane that stood on the railway tracks early on Tuesday near The Hague, killing the equipment operator and injuring dozens of passengers as the train derailed.
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Trains going off the rails - what could that possibly be symbolic of . . .
 
Seriously?

Truck carrying toxic soil from East Palestine train derailment overturns on highway
A truck carrying about 40,000 pounds of toxic soil from East Palestine, Ohio overturned on Monday, spilling roughly half its contents onto the highway.

The open-top tractor-trailer was traveling north on SR-165 in Columbiana County when the accident occurred, CBS News reported.

Driver Phillip Falck, 74, went off the right side of the road and hit a ditch and a utility pole before overturning, the outlet said.
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Texas Dairy Farm Completely Destroyed by Major Explosion, 18,000 Cattle Dead

A mass casualty incident has been declared after a massive sudden explosion and fire completely destroyed a major dairy farm in Texas.

Videos show huge plumes of smoke engulfing the sky from the South Fork Dairy in Dimmitt.

Smoke from the explosion could be seen from as far as 80 miles away.

At least 18,000 cattle have been killed in the explosion and resulting fires, according to Texas authorities.

“There’s some that survived, there’s some that are probably injured to the point where they’ll have to be destroyed,” according to Castro County Sheriff Sal Rivera.

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Officials with the Castro County Sheriff’s Office said that one person was trapped inside the facility and fire crews were able to locate the person and remove them from the building. One person was airlifted to a Lubbock hospital, said Rivera, and was last reported to be in critical condition. Further, an unknown amount of cattle were killed in the fire.

While its cause is still under investigation through the Texas State Fire Marshal’s Office and others, including the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, Rivera noted that the initial explosion may have been caused by a machinery malfunction.

The South Fork Dairy was further noted to be a recent development in the community, having been in operation for less than a year in the area and employing around 60 people. This is the first instance of a fire or explosion at the business.
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No official word has been made about the cause of the explosion yet.
 
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