| 1971 | Sep 25, 1971 - My first contact with Amtrak was less than impressive Perhaps this i> why 1 was pleasantly surprised at the train expecting 1890-type cars to match the reservation serv . Perhaps with more time. Amtrak will make the needed improvement in rail passenger service. news.google.com.au/newspapers?id=8koOAAAAIBAJ&sjid=fH8DAAAAIBAJ&pg=3815,6035020&dq= amtrak+train&hl=en
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| 1979 | Oct 13, 1979 - An Amtrak passenger train and an Illinois Central Gulf Railroad freight train in this Chicago suburb tonight, killing two persons and injuring 30 more. The police said that the two trains collided head-0rA after one train jumped its track and struck the other, which was on a parallel ... select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F30A11FF3E5C11728DDDAA0994D8415B898BF1D3
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| 1987 | Oct 13, 1987 - AP. An Amtrak passenger train, the California Zephyr, slammed into a railroad crane today, knocking the locomotives and 11 cars off the tracks and injuring at least 126 people, officials said. ''Everything was going smoothly and all of the sudden I heard the screeching of the brakes ... www.nytimes.com/1987/10/13/us/amtrak-train-hits-crane-in-iowa-126-are-injured.html
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| 1990 | Dec 13, 1990 - Wednesday's accident occurred during the morning rush hour as Metropolitan Boston Transit Authority train No. 906 was carrying commuters from suburban Stoughton. It was stopped in Back Bay Station when Amtrak train No. 66, the Night Owl, derailed on a curve 500 feet outside the station ... pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/59994175.html?dids=59994175:59994175&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS: FT&type...date...Amtrak+Train...
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| 1992 | Aug 13, 1992 - An Amtrak train from New York with 123 passengers aboard derailed Wednesday night, sending 69 people to hospitals, officials said. The cause of the accident wasn't clear, but officials were examining a switch the train had passed just before the derailment of the train's engine, ... pqasb.pqarchiver.com/chicagotribune/access/24342637.html?dids=24342637:24342637&FMT=ABS& FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Aug+13%2C...Amtrak+train...
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| 1993 | Sep 23, 1993 - The Amtrak Sunset Limited from Los Angeles to Miami with 206 people aboard hurtled off an aging trestle early Wednesday and plunged like a steel stone into a foggy Alabama bayou, killing 44 and leaving at least three others trapped in wreckage that sank into an ink-black swamp crawling ... pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/60388201.html?dids=60388201:60388201&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS: FT&type=current...Amtrak+Train...
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| 1996 | Feb 18, 1996 - A Chicago-bound Amtrak train creeping through a snowstorm smashed into a local train just outside Washington yesterday afternoon in a fiery ... The Amtrak train, the westbound Capitol Limited that had rolled out of Union Station in Washington less than 40 minutes before the accident, ... www.nytimes.com/1996/02/18/us/12-killed-in-fiery-amtrak-collision-in-near-washington.html
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| 1999 | Mar 17, 1999 - The train was carrying 196 passengers, 19 Amtrak employees and 2 employees of the Illinois Central Railroad, which manages the railroad crossing. ... A16) Rescue workers searching yesterday for passengers on an Amtrak train that collided with a semi-trailer truck. ... www.nytimes.com/1999/03/17/us/death-rails-overview-13-are-killed-amtrak-train-collides-with-truck- illinois.html?pagewanted=all
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| 2002 | Apr 19, 2002 - CRESCENT CITY, Fla. — Four people were killed and hundreds injured after an Amtrak train carrying nearly 500 passengers derailed in northern Florida Thursday evening. It could not be immediately determined why the Auto Train derailed, knocking down pine trees lining the tracks, ... www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,50685,00.html
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| 2007 | Nov 30, 2007 - AP. Nov. 30: Chicago firefighters work around the scene where an Amtrak passenger train plowed into the back of a freight train on the Chicago's South Side. CHICAGO — An Amtrak passenger train plowed into the back of a freight train Friday on the South Side of the city, seriously or ... www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,314243,00.html
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