Freight train derails, spills chemical
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A Union Pacific freight train derailed near this southern Illinois community early Monday, spilling an unknown chemical and forcing the evacuation of more than 70 homes.
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At least five people have serious injuries after a high-speed train derailment in south-east Queensland. A Tilt Train commuter service with 157 passengers and seven staff on board came off the tracks north of Bundaberg just after midnight.
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A train carrying liquefied petroleum gas and other chemicals derailed in West Virginia on Tuesday, forcing the evacuation of the small town of Handley, emergency officials said.
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A freight train carrying hazardous materials derailed early Saturday, damaging at least four homes and forcing more than 200 people to evacuate, officials said. No serious injuries were reported.
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One person was injured, four homes damaged and 200 people evacuated when a freight train derailed Saturday in southeastern Los Angeles County, US authorities said.
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SYDNEY, Australia -- A passenger train derailed in eastern Australia early Tuesday, injuring more than 120 people as cars slammed into trees and plowed through nearby fields.
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Emergency crews on Friday worked to plug  a chlorine leak from a tanker car damaged in a South Carolina  rail accident in which eight people died and more than 300 were  injured.
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At least 79 people were injured, two of them seriously, when a high-speed train carrying more than 160 passengers and crew derailed in eastern Australia, police said.
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By Chris Conley, The Commercial Appeal, Memphis, Tenn.  Dec. 5--Two tanker cars that derailed and spilled a corrosive chemical on  Presidents Island this morning were pulled upright by about 1:30 p.m. and the  leaks sealed, Memphis Fire Department division chief Kenneth Reeves said.
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TACOMA, Wash. - A chlorine leak Monday night at a chemical plant on this city's waterfront injured 12 people and prompted the evacuation of the surrounding industrial area, a fire official said.
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A packed commuter train collides with a freight train in Athens, injuring at least 50 people.
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A train carrying an explosive material derailed Monday in a city neighborhood, forcing homes and three schools to be evacuated, fire officials said. There were no immediate reports of injuries.
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Crews put a temporary patch Sunday on a railroad car that had been leaking toxic chlorine gas since a train wreck last week, while investigators looked into why a switching mechanism had been set to lead the train into railcars parked on a side track.
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Three people were injured Thursday when a westbound CSX freight train derailed in northwest Ohio and struck three automobiles stopped at a track crossing.
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An Amtrak train derailed in this city Thursday night, but Amtrak officials said there were no reports of injuries.
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A suicidal man parked his SUV on the railroad tracks and set off a crash of two commuter trains Wednesday that hurled passengers down the aisles and turned rail cars into smoking, twisted heaps of steel, authorities said. At least 10 people were killed and more than 180 injured.
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A freight train carrying propane gas derailed and caught fire outside Oneida in New York state on Monday, forcing the evacuation of people within a one-mile radius, fire officials said.