In the early morning hours, on Feb. 4, 2018, an Amtrak train collided with a CSX freight train near Cayce, South Carolina. Two Amtrak personnel were killed and over 100 passengers were injured. The Amtrak train was traveling from New Nork to Miami. The crash caused the lead engine and some passenger cars to derail. […]
On Oct. 18, 2017, at 7:45 a.m., an Amtrak train left Seattle on its first run to Portland, Oregon, when 13 of the 14 cars derailed over Interstate 5 in DuPont, Washington. The train had reached 80 mph in a 30-mph area. Only the rear train car remained on the tracks. Multiple train cars fell […]
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It was the first day Amtrak traveled the new route outside Tacoma, Washington with 78 passengers and five crew members. The southbound Amtrak Train 501 of Amtrak’s Cascades service from Seattle to Portland was traveling 70 mph passed the city of Dupont when it derailed at 7:40 a.m. PT. Passenger Chris Karnes, who is also […]
