List of American railroad accidents
This is a list of major American railroad accidents.
Timeline
19th century
| Year | Accident | Location | Fatalities | Injuries |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1856 | Great Train Wreck of 1856 | Whitemarsh Township, Pennsylvania | 59-67 | 100 |
| 1859 | South Bend train wreck | near South Bend, Indiana | 42 or more | 50 or more |
| 1864 | Shohola train wreck | Shohola, Pennsylvania | 60 or more | |
| 1867 | Angola Horror | Angola, New York | 49 approx | |
| 1876 | Ashtabula River Railroad Disaster | Ashtabula, Ohio | 92 | 64 |
| 1887 | Great Chatsworth Train Wreck | Chatsworth, Illinois | 81-85 | 169 -372 |
| 1887 | Forest Hills disaster | Boston, Massachusetts | 38 | 40 |
| 1891 | Great East Thompson Train Wreck | East Thompson, Connecticut | 2 | |
20th century
- 1900 Casey Jones railroad accident, Vaughan, Mississippi, 1 (Jones) killed
- 1903 Wreck of the Old 97, Danville, Virginia; 11 killed
- 1904 Eden train wreck, Pueblo, Colorado; 97 killed
- 1907 Yazoo Delta train wreck, Moorehead, Mississippi; "Where the Southern cross' the Yellow Dog"; 7 killed
- 1910 Wellington avalanche; 96 killed
- 1918 Great train wreck of 1918, Nashville, Tennessee; 101 killed
- 1918 Malbone Street Wreck, Brooklyn, New York; 93 killed
- 1918 Hammond Circus Train Wreck, Hammond, Indiana; 86 killed
- 1928 Times Square derailment, New York, New York; 18 killed
- 1933 Binghamton State Hospital train crash, Binghamton, New York; 14 killed[1]
- 1938 Custer Creek train wreck, Custer Creek, Montana; 47 killed
- 1940 Little Falls Gulf Curve crash, Little Falls, New York, 31 killed.
- 1943 Wayland train wreck, Wayland, New York; 27 killed[2]
- 1943 Frankford Junction train wreck, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; 79 killed
- 1943 Rennert railroad accident, Rennert, North Carolina; 72 killed
- 1947 Naperville train disaster, Naperville, Illinois, 45 killed
- 1950 Rockville Centre train accident, Rockville Centre, New York, 32 killed
- 1950 Kew Gardens train crash, Kew Gardens, New York; 78 killed
- 1951 Woodbridge train wreck, Woodbridge, New Jersey; 85 killed
- 1958 Newark Bay rail accident, Bayonne, New Jersey; 48 killed
- 1959 Meldrim, Georgia trestle disaster, Meldrim, Georgia; 23 killed
- 1965 Cleveland Limited (NYC system) Corfu, New York; 23 injured
- 1971 Salem, Illinois, derailment, Salem, Illinois; 11 killed
- 1972 Congers bus-train collision, Clarkstown, New York; 5 killed
- 1972 Chicago commuter rail crash, Chicago, Illinois; 45 killed
- 1977 Chicago Loop derailment, Chicago, Illinois; 11 killed
- 1978 Waverly, Tennessee, tank car explosion, Waverly, Tennessee; 16 killed
- 1982 Washington Metro train derailment, Washington, D.C.; 3 killed
- 1987 Amtrak–Conrail collision, Chase, Maryland; 16 killed
- 1989 Montana Rail Link wreck, Helena, Montana; no fatalities
- 1989 San Bernardino train disaster, San Bernardino, California; 4 killed
- 1991 Union Square derailment, New York, New York; 5 killed
- 1993 Big Bayou Canot train wreck, Mobile, Alabama; 47 killed
- 1995 Fox River Grove bus–train collision, Fox River Grove, Illinois; 7 killed
- 1996 MARC and Amtrak collision, Silver Spring, Maryland; 11 killed
- 1996 Wisconsin Central derailment, Weyauwega, Wisconsin; no fatalities
- 1999 Amtrak crash, Bourbonnais, Illinois; 11 killed
21st century
- 2001 CSX derailment and fire, Baltimore, Maryland; no fatalities
- 2002 Canadian Pacific derailment, Minot, North Dakota
- 2002 Norfolk Southern derailment, Farragut, Tennessee; no fatalities
- 2005 Norfolk Southern crash, Graniteville, South Carolina; 9 killed
- 2005 Metrolink crash, Glendale, California; 11 killed
- 2007 CSX derailment, Brooks, Kentucky; no fatalities
- 2008 MBTA crash, Newton, Massachusetts; 1 killed
- 2008 Metrolink crash, Chatsworth, California; 25 killed
- 2009 Washington Metro crash, Washington, D.C.; 9 killed
- 2012 Union Pacific crash, Midland, Texas; 4 killed
- 2013 Metro-North crash, Fairfield, Connecticut; no fatalities
- 2013 CSX derailment, Spuyten Duyvil, New York; no fatalities
- 2013 Metro-North derailment, Spuyten Duyvil, New York; 4 killed
- 2014 CTA crash, Chicago, Illinois; no fatalities
- 2015 Metro-North crash, Valhalla, New York; 6 killed; 15 injured
- 2015 CSX derailment, Mount Carbon, West Virginia; no fatalities; 1 injured
- 2015 Metrolink derailment, Oxnard, California; 1 killed; 29 injured
- 2015 Amtrak derailment, Halifax, North Carolina; no fatalities; 55 injured
- 2015 Expo Line crash, Los Angeles, California; no fatalities; 12 injured
- 2015 Amtrak derailment, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; 8 killed; 200 injured
- 2016 Amtrak collision, Chester, Pennsylvania; 2 killed; 41 injured
- 2016 Amtrak derailment, Cimarron, Kansas; no fatalities; 28 injured
- 2016 NJ Transit crash, Hoboken, New Jersey; 1 killed; 114 injured
- 2017 Brooklyn train crash, Brooklyn, New York; no fatalities; 103 injured
- 2017 Washington train derailment, Dupont, Washington, 3 killed; 23 injured
- 2018 Cayce, South Carolina train collision, Cayce, South Carolina, 2 killed; 116 injured
See also
References
- ↑ "TRAINS CRASH; 14 DIE, 30 HURT". Chicago Daily Tribune. 6 September 1933. Retrieved 30 November 2016.
- ↑ "Wayland, NY Passenger Train Collision, Aug 1943". GenDisasters. Retrieved 30 November 2016.
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