Report: Train Didn't Heed Stop Signal in Deadly Texas Wreck

(ABC) A train failed to heed a stop signal before it barreled head-on into another freight train last month in the Texas Panhandle, killing three, according to a preliminary federal report released Thursday.

An eastbound BNSF Railway train failed to slow at a yellow warning signal on June 28 and then continued past a red stop signal before striking an oncoming BNSF train, inspectors for the National Transportation Safety Board said in the report. Continued

Officials: Two trains derailed during blizzard

(Clovis News Journal) Two Burlington Northern Santa Fe freight trains derailed west of Clovis during the holiday blizzard, officials confirmed on Monday. Continued

 

Photo: Cleaning up after a derailment on the Northeast Corridor (MDRails)

The Great Tolar Railroad Explosion

Tolar, New Mexico. Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad train between Clovis and Vaughn. 
  (1943, Jack Delano/Library of Congress, FSA/OWI collection)

 

 

 

"At noon on November 30, 1944, a World War II supply train hauling 165 five-hundred-pound bombs headed for the Pacific Theater derailed in Tolar. The train caught fire and the bombs exploded. The blast, which leveled nearly every building in town, could be heard 60 miles away. It vaporized 500 feet of track and sent a 1,500-pound axle crashing through a store and rolling out the back. One person, Jess Brown, was killed in the explosion after a piece of iron shrapnel struck his head. Tolar is two miles east of here."

 

Video: Washout on the Union Pacific

(Quay County Sun) Ground washes out under railroad tracks July 28 near Montoya, disrupting rail traffic between Dalhart, Texas, and Albuquerque