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	Train Disaster Encyclopedia Article @ Befell.net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Five train passengers and the drivers of both the train and the car are killed; over 100 passengers are injured.
		The records of the train's show that the train passed a bend where the speed is limited to 40 km/h at 80 km/h.
		One of the dead was a 14 year old boy and the other one was an old man. The train then skidded in to the taxi rank at a near by station and injured a taxi driver as his car was crushed under the train.
	www.befell.net /encyclopedia/Train_disaster (3929 words)

	List of Rail Accidents Encyclopedia Article @ Misjudged.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		train derails at 0140 CST near a residential area west of Minot; the derailment results in a massive runs through a red signal leak.
		November 6 [70], 2005 – Nosaby, near 2004, [75], High Speed Train: A heavy truck is caught between the barriers at a level crossing, and is hit by a passenger train.
		June 12 [36], 2005 – Categories, Russia: A train from 2006 to tsunami passes a sabotaged ^ and collides with a freight train, killing five of the November 11's passengers.
	www.misjudged.org /encyclopedia/List_of_rail_accidents (3345 words)

	Dead Man's Switch Encyclopedia Article @ Complying.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Interest in dead-man's controls increased with the introduction of electric streetcars and especially electrified rapid transit trains, though dead-man equipment was quite rare on the former until comparatively recently.
		The main requirement is that the train's brakes be placed in emergency condition if live pressure is not maintained on the controller.
		In the Waterfall train disaster, it appears that the driver, who was overweight, slumped on his seat, keeping the pedal pressed when he died.
	www.complying.org /encyclopedia/Dead_man's_switch (1074 words)

	List of Rail Accidents Encyclopedia Article @ Cautiously.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		July 23, 2004 andndash Turkey: 36 are killed as a speeding train derails between Ankara and Istambull.
		January 6, 2005 – Graniteville train disaster, South Carolina, United States: Still under investigation by the NTSB; preliminary findings are that a turnout is left lined for a siding when it should have been lined for the mainline, causing a through Norfolk Southern freight train to collide with a parked train.
		July 31, 2005 – Shenyang, China: A train from Xi'an to Changchun passes a sabotaged railway signal and collides with a freight train, killing five of the passenger train's passengers.
	www.cautiously.org /encyclopedia/List_of_rail_accidents (3463 words)

	Admissibility Of Computer-Generated Animation - Law Firm Abraham, Watkins, Nichols, Sorrels, Matthews & Friend ...
		The fireman on the freight train tossed a small flare onto the highway west of the crossing, indicating to motorists that the freight train was blocking the railroad crossing.
		The jury further found that the deceased’s view of the freight train was obscured by the beam of light from the passenger train shining between the vehicle of the deceased and the freight train.
		The passenger train was equipped with a stationery 1500 candlepower headlight.
	www.abrahamwatkins.com /CM/Articles/Articles48.asp (3602 words)

	List of Rail Accidents Encyclopedia Article @ Misjudged.net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Arnhem Nishapur train disaster, Durban – 2005, 08-21, March 16: The driver of a southbound passenger train suffers a West Bengal and dies; the train speeds out of control and derails on a curve, killing 6 passengers.
		Apparently, the driver kept his foot on the http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/3918823.stm during his heart attack and the slow speed of the train did not trigger the India train bomb kills 7, hurts 53 (one of its major design flaws), so the train did not stop.
		May 20 maintenance of way, Train carrying petroleum derailed not far from Moscow – United States, subway: A tractor-trailer carrying a wedding party is hit by a train.
	www.misjudged.net /encyclopedia/List_of_rail_accidents (3323 words)

	train collision: train collision \| car train collision \| \| (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Deadly Train Collision In N. Italy CBS News A collision between a passenger train and a freight train in northern Italy killed at least 10 people.
		USATODAY.com NTSB blames fatigue for train collision A Union Pacific freight train crew probably was asleep at the controls, causing a fatal Texas train crash that released deadly chlorine gas, the government said Thursday.
		Car driver dies in rail collision A driver dies when his car crashes through a fence on to a rail line near York and is hit by a high-speed train.
	www.motorsmaster.com /train_collision/train_collision.html (990 words)

	List of rail accidents - Avoo - Ask Us A Question - List of rail accidents from 2000 to the present (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The records of the train's fl box show that the train passed a bend where the speed is limited to 40 km/h at 80 km/h.
		September 4, 2006 – Egypt: A passenger train collides with a freight train north of Cairo, killing five and injuring 30.
		November 20, 2006 - A train passes a red signal causing a head-on collision in Rotterdam.
	www.beverlyhillscaus.com /section/List_of_rail_accidents (4817 words)

	canadianheli crash
		Initially, the train was filmed with the helicopter situated in a hover alongside a trestle.
		As the train moved under a highway crossing, the helicopter made a right-hand 360-degree turn, manoeuvred directly over the train, and descended to a skid height of about 12 feet above the rail cars.
		When the CN dispatch in Edmonton became aware that the helicopter was working with a specific train, the crew members of that train were not advised so that they would not change their procedures.
	www.hd24.com /canadianheli_crash.htm (1899 words)

	DeadMan Safety Device (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		A very common use is in a train locomotive.
		In some countries, most freight elevators, lawn mowers, jet skis and snowblowers use a dead man's switch or similar mechanism that causes them to slow down, stop moving or shut down if the switch is released.
		In the Waterfall train disaster, it appears that the driver who was overweight slumped on his seat and bypassed the pedal when he died.
	www.deadman.co.za (517 words)

	Danger Ahead! - Gallery
		The inferno that was the troop train carrying a battalion of the 7th Royal Scots to war.
		This Pennsylvania RR train overan the buffers at Union Station, Washington on 15 January 1953.
		The six coach train was being pushed by a class 47 Diesel locomotive.
	danger-ahead.railfan.net /gallery/index.html (851 words)

	Wreck on the C&O
		Accident to the F. The report reached the city this morning that train No. 4, (the vestibuled) had been derailed a short distance east of Hinton, and the investigation by the ADVERTISER shows that there was an accident to this train, but not so bad as at first rumored.
		At about 5 o'clock this morning the train ran into a rock, which had rolled on the track from the mountain above, two miles east of Hinton.
		The train was running at good speed, and the collision caused the engine and express and postal cars to be derailed.
	www.wvculture.org /hiStory/transportation/wreckonthecando01.html (198 words)

	Hinton train collision - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The unusual make up of the train was the result of two separate trains being joined together in Jasper.
		A wrong-side signal problem was eliminated leaving human error as the only possible cause.
		However it should be noted that signals controlled by track circuits change to red as soon as the front of the train passes the signal, so that anyone in the caboose will mostly see red signals, all the more so with 2000m long trains.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hinton_train_collision (1618 words)

	Accident Reconstruction Newsletter September 2006
		A collision dynamics model of a passenger train-to-passenger train collision has been developed to simulate the potential safety hazards and benefits associated with mixing conventional and crash energy management (CEM) cars within a consist.
		Collision dynamics models were developed to predict the gross motions of the test vehicle.
		A collision investigator is often challenged with the task of determining the condition of a heavy truck’s air brake system after the vehicle has sustained considerable damage.
	www.accidentreconstruction.com /newsletter/sep06.asp (5143 words)

	Dates in Canadian Railway History
		The first through train, consisting of 3 first class and 3 second class coaches, ran from Montreal (Point St. Charles) to Toronto (Don Station) and a similar train made the journey in the opposite direction.Departure was at 07:00 from Montreal and 07:30 from Toronto.
		The first passenger train crossed the structure on December 17, 1859 and it was formally opened by the Prince of Wales, later to become King Edward VII, on August 25, 1860.
		The train ran via CP on the outward trip and in western Canada and on CN on the return leg in Ontario.
	www.railways.incanada.net /candate/candate.htm (10516 words)

	History of Nova Scotia, Jan 1990 - Dec 1993
		It was a long and heavy train powered by six diesel locomotives: CN 1786 in front, followed by 1760, 1758, 1765, 1764, and 1754.
		As it went along, this last train was tearing up the track behind it, and salvaging rail from the dismantled track by hauling it aboard in continuous lengths of 1482 feet.
		Even with six engines, the train was seriously underpowered, as was shown when it stalled on a steep uphill grade Monday morning [16 September] at Maitland, and on another uphill grade with two sharp curves Tuesday afternoon at Blockhouse.
	www.littletechshoppe.com /ns1625/nshist24.html (8310 words)

	TSB Board Members
		Among the senior legal counsel positions she held with these agencies over a 13-year period was her role in the late 1980s as lead counsel representing the Canadian Transport Commission before the Commission of Inquiry into the Hinton Train Collision, headed by Mr.
		She was also Assistant General Counsel for the NTA, in which capacity she worked on the Agency's input into a comprehensive national review of transportation legislation in the early 1990s.
		During her tenure as Director, she worked on the development of a training program for tribunal members and helped deliver the training at the Canadian Centre for Management Development.
	www.bst.gc.ca /en/common/board_members.asp (992 words)

	Train Collision Caught on Tape \| Peach Pundit
		A Port Wentworth police officer was truly in the right place at the right time early this morning.
		WTOC Savannah reported earlier that the officer’s dashboard camera was rolling when a train struck a stranded car at the railroad crossing at Gulfstream Road and Highway 21.
		Scholes was able to get the driver out of the car before a train plowed into the vehicle minutes later.
	www.peachpundit.com /2006/11/22/train-collision-caught-on-tape (188 words)

	"OUR" PLACE - Adults talking Classic Trains in a special place since April 12th, 2005! - Trains.com Forums
		Of course, at that age (21 or so) riding trains took a distant 3rd place to a few other things young men like to do.[swg] (Even some older ones!) The 49th State was quite the place back in the days I was there â“ a brand new State with a brand new future.
		The train arrived yesterday morning, and the exhibit will be open starting March 4th and continue to April 30th.
		The train had to be brought in by KCS, since exSP 745 is having mechanical problems.
	www.trains.com /TRC/CS/forums/261/448217/ShowPost.aspx#448217 (6772 words)

	To UPRRPR,Sorry... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		As train derailments go, this was a good one.
		In 1999, there were 109 fatalities involving trains in Canada.
		That's because freight trains don't typically run on schedules.
	www.trainorders.com /discussion/read.php?1,59966,older (1798 words)

	Railway Accidents Encyclopedia Article @ Misjudged.net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Main Page • Kaprun disaster • Classification of railway accidents • Ryongchon disaster • Pécrot rail crash • Train surfing • 2005 Johannesburg bus-train collision • Nishapur train disaster • Polgahawela level crossing collision
		Significant railway accidents should be listed and described (particularly in terms of lessons learnt) at Al Ayyat train disaster.
		There are 13 subcategories to this category shown below (more may be shown on subsequent pages).
	www.misjudged.net /encyclopedia/Category:Railway_accidents (279 words)

	Hinton, OK News
		An 18-year-old Yukon High School student is now charged with negligent homicide in connection with a truck-train collision that killed his friend.
		Apache Warriors fans were pleased Thursday as they witnessed their football team trounce the visiting Hinton Comets, 28-6 in a league game.
		The Hinton Comets football team scored 41 points and held the visiting Snyder Cyclones to 12 in the Comets league win on Friday.
	www.topix.net /city/hinton-ok (583 words)

	Rubenerd Blog » travel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		I’m an expat in Singapore and I never think twice about not using the buses or trains here because they’re just so darned reliable and take you anywhere.
		Just finished watching a National Geographic documentry on cable (Crash Scene Investigation) about the Hinton Train Collision in Canada in 1986, just 2 months before I was born.
		disaster accident, hinton train collision, hinton train disaster, canada, 1986, canadian railways, canadian national railway
	rubenerdshow.com /blog/?cat=17 (1689 words)

	Association of Regional Railways of Canada \| Management Team (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		He opened his private practice in 1994 specializing in transportation law.
		During his career, Forrest has been involved in a number of major transportation hearings, such as the Staggers Rail Act hearings, the Commission of Inquiry into the Hinton train collision, and the CN and CPR applications leading to cabooseless train operations in Canada.
		In his private practice, Forrest has represented the interests of various parties involved in rail transportation matters, including shippers, short line railways and regional carriers.
	www.arrc.ca /website/management.asp (407 words)

	1986 in rail transport
		February 8 - 23 people are killed in the Hinton train collision when a VIA Rail passenger train collides with a Canadian National Railway freight train near Hinton, Alberta.
		March 25 - Conrail makes its initial public offering of stock starting at $28 per share.
		September 19 - Two high speed trains collide near Rugeley, Staffordshire, England, in the Colwich rail crash; the driver of one of the two trains was the only fatality of this accident.
	www.parsnava.com /biography/sdmc_1986_in_rail_transport (262 words)

	Publications
		Transportation and legal experience includes Director of Legal Services for the National Transportation Agency of Canada; Inquiry Coordinator for "The Road to Accessibility: An Inquiry into Canadian Motor Coach Services"; and counsel to the Canadian Transport Commission before the Commission of Inquiry into the Hinton Train Collision.
		Human Performance staff made a presentation on the application of human factor techniques to accident investigation at the 12
		Macro Analysis staff presented the research report "An Accident-Based Examination of Factors Associated with Train-in-Crossing Collisions" to the 34
	www.tsb.gc.ca /en/publications/annual_report/2004/report2003_2004.asp (2490 words)

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