RAILFREIGHT HISTORY

Because the route was almost flat it was possible for a horse to pull five or six wagons loaded to 3½ tons (3.2 tonnes) each.

finalised its purchase of Electro-Motive Diesel, Inc.

AUGUST 5

1977 THE NTSB report on the accident on October 19 1976, at New Haven, Indiana when the N & W freight train Extra #1376 West collided head-on with N&W yard locomotive unit #3363, which was pulling 55 freight cars. One locomotive unit, a caboose, and one car of Extra #1376 West, and the yard locomotive and one car were derailed. The brakeman on the locomotive of Extra #1376 West was killed and four crewmembers were injured. The estimated cost of damage was $168,400.

AUGUST 7

JULY 30

1840 THE Pennsylvania Railroad orders its first 4-4-4-4 T1 duplex-drive steam locomotives. They are expected to be serious competition for diesel power.

JULY 31

1815 THE explosion of a locomotive boiler designed by William Brunton on the Newbottle Waggonway in North East England kills around a dozen people. The driver had tampered with the safety valve to make the machine run faster. It is regarded as the first railway disaster.

AUGUST 2

2010 CATERPILLAR announces that its Progress Rail Services subsidiary had

2014 AT about 03:10 Union Pacific local train LUM41-06 traveled into a Ken’s Foods, Inc., warehouse, ran through the end-of-track bumping post, and then collided with the inside wall while switching cars. The train consisted of three locomotives and 14 loaded tank cars. Three Ken’s Foods employees were in the warehouse at the time. Estimated damages were $188,000 and there were no injuries. The probable cause, considers the NTSB, is the engineer’s failure to stop the train before it collided with the bumping post and the inside wall of the building because he was incapacitated by a seizure.

Contributing to the accident was the Federal Railroad Administration’s failure to establish medical certification standards, other than hearing and vision criteria, for railroad employees in safety-sensitive positions.

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