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	List of rail accidents - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		As the train approached its destination, the bridge spanning the Desjardins Canal collapsed as the train derailed.
		November 16, 1960 – Stéblová train disaster, Czechoslovakia: 118 are killed and 110 injured in a head-on collision.
		January 8, 1962 – The Harmelen train disaster, the worst railway accident in the history of The Netherlands, occurs when one passenger train driver misses a warning signal in fog and passes a red signal to collide nearly head-on with another passenger train.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Train_disaster (5359 words)

	Railroad Accidents
		While trains are convenient for travel and for transporting goods, they have become a greater danger over the years as their speed has increased.
		The early trains ran slowly and made short trips, night travel was rare, and there were not many of them in operation.
		train derailed on bridge during flash flood; 96 killed.
	www.factmonster.com /ipka/A0001450.html (1028 words)

	Training aids disaster rescuers - The Clarion-Ledger
		MERIDIAN — It was in the middle of the night nearly nine years ago when an Amtrak passenger train plunged into Big Bayou Canot near Mobile.
		Training in catastrophic train derailments was probably something most emergency workers on the Mobile scene lacked, said H.C. "Bunky" Partridge, a 27-year firefighting veteran who wants to change that.
		Partridge said anyone who might be called to a rail disaster — from dispatchers to rural volunteer fire departments, even water and power crews — are urged to apply for the center's 8-, 16- and 40-hour courses.
	orig.clarionledger.com /news/0205/13/m05.html (794 words)

	Middle East Open Encyclopedia: List of disasters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		A disaster is a natural or man-made event that negatively affects life, property, livelihood or industry, often resulting in permanent changes to human societies, ecosystems and environment.
		Disasters manifest as hazards exacerbating vulnerable conditions and exceeding individuals' and communities' means to survive and thrive.
		Climatic disaster of 535 AD, might have been triggered by an Indonesian volcanic eruption; grassland failures spurred migrations of Avars and others; plagues, conjectured collapse of Late Antiquity (David Keys' theory, in Catastrophe: An Investigation into the Origins of the Modern World, 2000.
	www.baghdadmuseum.org /ref/index.php?title=List_of_disasters (5147 words)

	Memorial [Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen]
		The train's conductor, Anthony J. "Tony" Mills, 58, was also killed in the accident, and the brakeman, Charles LaBella, 58, jumped off the rear of the train and suffered minor injuries.
		The train was traveling at approximately 46 mph when it collided head-on with several locomotives attached to an unoccupied train, which had been previously parked in the siding for several days.
		Their train, #243, was traveling from Flat Rock, Mich., to Flint, Mich., when it collided head-on with train #533, in a siding near Springfield Township.
	www.ble-t.org /memorial.asp (3371 words)

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		On trains with only a conductor, this means that for periods of time while the conductor is driving the vehicle, only the engineer is aboard the train.
		The City of Philadelphia was a winner too, because 93 cars of the precious commodity from Akzo Salt, Inc. in Retsof, NY (near Rochester) arrived in Port Richmond, Pa. with 15 of the carloads tagged for the City's use and the rest to be distributed to surrounding area townships and municipalities.
		Trains will be based at a yard located near Roosevelt Road and Clinton Street, west of the Metra/Burlington Northern suburban train yard south of Union Station.
	www.railfan.net /railpix/text/ro_1_8.txt (17618 words)

	CTT Hobby News - March 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Included among the convention tours are trips to Classic Toy Trains' offices in suburban Waukesha, Wis., and tours of the home layouts of CTT founding editor Dick Christianson, CTT editor Neil Besougloff, former CTT columnist Kent Johnson, and others.
		In the foggy, predawn darkness of September 22, 1993, six river barges collided with a bridge on the CSX main line passing through the Big Bayou Canot.
		The Sunset Limited was re-created using MTH and Williams equipment, and the final train featured a dummy Genesis diesel and two powered F40PH diesels.
	www.trains.com /Content/Dynamic/Articles/000/000/004/940cwagq.asp (983 words)

	New rules pushing towboat industry
		A pilot who had held his license for three years, Odom thought he was on the Mobile River but, in fact, had steered the flotilla into Big Bayou Canot, a shallow waterway not suitable for commercial navigation.
		Whether radar training would have kept Odom from hitting the bridge is debatable.
		Until the Sunset Limited went into Big Bayou Canot, however, few outside the industry had reason to care about its trial-by-fire training methods or its propensity for losing deckhands.
	www.chron.com /content/chronicle/page1/96/12/15/barges.html (2721 words)

	TrainWeb for train travel, model railroading, railfans and the railroad industry.
		That is the only circumstance under which the train is allowed to leave ahead of schedule since nobody is expecting to board the train at a set time.
		Compare the worst disaster in Amtrak history where the vast majority of passengers left the train without injury to any airline disaster where there is seldom a survivor.
		The train is quite full which means there is a lot for all the staff to do.
	www.trainweb.com /travel/stevelog/sg970929.html (18879 words)

	Jim Hall's Speech to the Int'l Marine Transit Ass'n on 9/23/96 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Errors resulting from the lack of training and sufficient experience came to the forefront in 1993 as a result of the nighttime collision of the towboat MAUVILLA and its nearly 400-foot barge flotilla with a railroad bridge over the Big Bayou Canot near Mobile, Alabama.
		Formal radar training was not required by either the company or the Coast Guard.
		Following the ESTONIA disaster in 1994, the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers in the United States empaneled a committee, which included the Safety Board, to study the broad area of Roll On/Roll Off ferry safety.
	www.ntsb.gov /Speeches/former/hall/jh960923.htm (2550 words)

	Worst United States Disasters - 1stboulderguide.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Mar 1, Wellington WA: Two trains in Stevens Pass in the Cascade Range were knocked off the tracks and fell 150 feet into a canyon.
		This was the second largest disaster in U.S. waters since Exxon Valdez in March 1989.
		Sep 22, proximity Mobile AL: An Amtrak train, Sunset Limited, derailed on a bridge and fell into the Big Bayou Canot, killing 47.
	www.1stboulderguide.com /USADisasters.html (4911 words)

	R-276: Towing Vessels Must Be Regulated Like Every Other Inspected Vessel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Our mariners have little respect for a program where a business associate trained by a trade association as an "auditor" visits one or two "representative" vessels with specially trained crews and advises the owner to make "voluntary" changes to comply with the spirit of the program.
		There are serious gaps in our mariners' regulatory training that makes these "lower-level" mariners vulnerable to having their licenses suspended or revoked and their livelihood disrupted.
		While crossing the Big Bayou Canot Bridge, north of Mobile, Alabama, at 72 miles per hour the 11-unit train struck the bridge.
	www.gulfcoastmariners.org /r-documents/r276/r276.htm (6537 words)

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		For instance, average train speed here (a measure of service attractiveness) is only about 23 mph, compared to a national commuter rail average of about 32 mph.
		Indicated are numerous changes to raise train speeds, improve on-time performance, etc. It should be recognized that RRD service exists principally for peak hours (6-9 am and 3-8 pm week- days) and that other operations are a secondary, "by-product" service.
		The goal of the project is to accommodate 25 and possibly 30 trains per hour instead of the present capacity of 17.
	www.railfan.net /railpix/text/dvrp9405.txt (9603 words)

	Mobile County Public Works - Engineering Department
		During the early morning hours of Sept. 23, 1993, an Amtrak train derailed while crossing the bridge spanning Bayou Canot, a deep river gorge, plunging passenger cars into the river below.
		More than 47 people lost their lives in the wreck, and 160 were rescued.
		Since the Amtrak train crash, Mobile County expanded its system by adding another site to boost its coverage and beefing up channels to 39 from the original 24.
	www.mobilecounty.org /publicworks/article-ericssen.htm (1473 words)

	A Chronology of Significant DOT Dates
		Although initially operated by the FAA, this school provided training for the investigation of accidents and incidents in all modes of transportation, and in related regulatory matters.
		August 15, 1986, in the aftermath of the Challenger disaster, Reagan announced that the National Aeronautics and Space Administration would no longer be in the business of launching commercial payloads, giving the green light to private manufacturers to enter the commercial launch market.
		January 4, 1987, an Amtrak train collided with a string of Conrail diesels near Chase, Maryland, killing sixteen and injuring 175.
	dotlibrary.dot.gov /Historian/chronology.htm (14670 words)

	Worst United States Disasters - 1stlubbockguide.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The worst U.S. single plane air disaster to date.
		(Train Wrecks prior to 1825 had few casualties, train speed were very slow.)
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	www.1stlubbockguide.com /USADisasters.html (4911 words)

	1993b
		1993 Jul 22, Japanese Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa agreed to resign, following big election losses by the scandal-plagued Liberal Democrats.
		1993 Aug 4, The Senate approved a $5.8 billion disaster bill for Midwestern flood victims.
		1993 Sep 22, Forty-seven people were killed when an Amtrak passenger train derailed and crashed into Bayou Canot near Mobile, Ala.
	www.shelbyjackman.com /school/timeline/1993B.HTML (9430 words)

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