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Sulfur leaking into bayou empties Plaquemine motel
AP PLAQUEMINE, La. - A freight train car carrying molten sulfur derailed and sprung a leak, dribbling the liquid into Bayou Plaquemine and prompting evacuation of a motel. Louisiana State Police Lt. Doug Cain says none of the cars...Tags: Environmental Issues, Rivers, Disasters and Accidents, Bodies of Water, Transportation Accidents
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MUNI Train Collides With Tractor Trailer In San Francisco
SAN FRANCISCO - At least eight people were injured today after a San Francisco Municipal Railway light vehicle and a big-rig tractor trailer collided at the intersection of 22nd and Third Streets. FOX affiliate KTVU-TV reports the crash likely happened...Tags: Fox Broadcasting Company, Entertainment, Television, Disasters and Accidents, Transportation Accidents
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Metrolink Train Engineer Warned Twice About Cell Phone Use
WASHINGTON - A supervisor says the engineer in a deadly train crash last September was warned twice about cell phone use while on duty. Despite that warning, the engineer sent and received 43 text messages and made four phone calls the day of the...Tags: Companies and Corporations, Employees, Industrial Accidents, Union Pacific Corporation, Death
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Investigation into fatal Metrolink crash focuses on signal
Federal officials investigating Friday's fatal Metrolink train crash focused Sunday on whether a signal that should have alerted the engineer to stop the train was working properly, and whether it went unheeded. National Transportation Safety Board...Tags: Unions, Employees, Heart Attack, Gaming, Health and Safety at Work
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Freight Train Derails in La Mirada
LA MIRADA -- Authorities are investigating another train derailment in Southern California. This one took place in La Mirada about 9:30 Thursday morning. The accident was reported near Valley View st. and the (5) freeway in La Mirada, about 9:30 a.m....Tags: Disasters and Accidents, Transportation Accidents
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Two Top Managers Removed Over Metrolink Crash Investigation
LOS ANGELES -- The contractor that provided the engineer involved in the deadly Metrolink crash in Chatsworth last year has removed two of its senior managers. Connex Railroad announced the decision Thursday after Metrolink suggested the company find a...Tags: Death, Science and Technology, Disasters and Accidents, Transportation Accidents, Career and Workplace
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Metrolink Changes Policy to Avoid Crashes
LOS ANGELES -- Metrolink officials said Monday that they have ordered engineers to slow down as they approach possible red lights, a new safety regulation that comes shortly after two trains collided in Rialto and two months after a fatal head-on crash in...Tags: Death, Transportation Industry, Science and Technology, Disasters and Accidents, Transportation Accidents
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Metrolink Suing Company that Provides its Engineers
LOS ANGELES -- The Metrolink board will meet Friday to discuss a lawsuit that the commuter rail line has filed against the company that provides it engineers. The suit against Connex Railroad LLC, a subsidiary of Veolia Transportation, was filed in...Tags: Trials, Companies and Corporations, Transportation, Crime, Law and Justice, Death
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Metrolink Conductor Says Light Was Green
LOS ANGELES -- The conductor aboard the Metrolink train that collided with a freight in September says the warning light along the track was green before the deadly crash in Los Angeles. The claim announced Thursday by conductor Robert Heldenbrand...Tags: Death, Transportation Industry, John Gilbert, Disasters and Accidents, Transportation Accidents
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Investigation: Metrolink Engineer Allowed Teens to Ride-Along
CHATSWORTH -- A federal investigation into cell phone text messages shows that the engineer who's been blamed for the Metrolink disaster sometimes allowed teens to ride with him in the cab of the trains. On September 12, a commuter train and a freight...Tags: Death, Transportation Industry, Teen-agers, Science and Technology, Disasters
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Metrolink Spokeswoman Resigns
LOS ANGELES -- The woman who delivered a surprisingly swift announcement following the deadly train collision in Chatsworth, placing blame on the engineer driving a Metrolink commuter train, has resigned. Metrolink Spokeswoman Denise Tyrrell said she has...Tags: Death, Transportation Industry, Science and Technology, Disasters and Accidents, Management Change
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Hundreds Attend Funeral for LAPD Officer Killed in Metrolink Crash
LOS ANGELES -- Hundreds of mourners gathered this morning at the Cathedral of Our Lady of Angels for the funeral of a Los Angeles police officer killed in last week's catastrophic Metrolink crash in Chatsworth. Uniformed police officers and friends and...Tags: Family, Elections, Employees, Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Los Angeles Police Department
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