Prior to Feb. 3, East Palestine, Ohio, was a small, unassuming village in the northeast corner of Columbiana County, Ohio, close to the Pennsylvania border. The middle-class suburban community is considered safe and affordable, with a median home sales price of $140,000. But all that changed when the village became a national spotlight following the…
East Palestine Real Estate Market in Limbo, as Fallout From Toxic Train Crash Continues
March 20, 2023
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BNSF Train Derails in Washington State, Spilling Diesel Fuel
ANACORTES, Wash.—Two BNSF trains derailed in separate incidents in Arizona and Washington state on Thursday, with the latter spilling diesel fuel on tribal land along Puget Sound. There were no injuries reported. It wasn’t clear what caused either derailment. The derailment in Washington occurred on a berm along Padilla Bay, on the Swinomish tribal reservation…
Police: Woman Fatally Stabbed Near Train Named the Attacker
CHICAGO—A 26-year-old woman who was stabbed at a downtown Chicago train platform uttered the name of her attacker before dying, police said Monday. Police announced a murder charge against a 31-year-old man who was arrested Saturday, roughly 13 hours after the early morning stabbing. Samantha Maldonado was attacked as a train approached at an elevated…
Train Rams Into Public Bus in Nigeria’s Lagos, Killing 6
ABUJA—A train rammed into a public bus in Nigeria’s commercial hub of Lagos on Thursday, killing six people and injuring dozens of others, as the bus driver tried to beat the train signal, emergency services and the state governor said. The accident happened at a bus stop in the Ikeja axis of Lagos, a city…
3 Injured in West Virginia Train Derailment That Sent Diesel Fuel, Oil Into River
Three people have been injured after an empty coal train operated by CSX Corp. derailed on March 8 after hitting a rock slide in a remote area of West Virginia. All four of the train’s locomotives and nine empty coal cars derailed in a remote area just south of Sandstone, Summers County, inside the New River National Park and…
3 Injured in Fiery Train Derailment Caused by Rockslide
SANDSTONE, W.Va.—An empty coal train hit a rockslide along tracks in West Virginia on Wednesday morning, causing a fiery derailment that injured three crewmembers, CSX Transportation said in a statement. Four locomotives and 22 empty cars derailed in Summers County near the New River, CSX said. The lead locomotive, which carried a conductor, an engineer,…
Northern Egypt Train Derailment Kills 2, Injures 16
CAIRO—A passenger train derailed Tuesday north of Cairo, killing at least two people and injuring 16 others, Egyptian authorities said. It was the latest in a series of rail accidents in the country in recent years. The derailing happened as the train was traveling through a station in the city of Qalyub on its way…
Deadly Greek Train Crash Prompts Strike; Relatives Give DNA
THESSALONIKI, Greece—Family members awaited the results of DNA testing to identify victims of a train crash that killed nearly 60 people in Greece, as workers went on strike Thursday saying the rail system is outdated, underfunded, and dangerous. The government has blamed human error, and a railway official was charged with manslaughter. Emergency crews, meanwhile,…
Train Carrying 30,000 Gallons of Propane Derails in Florida’s Manatee County
A train carrying around 30,000 gallons of propane derailed in Florida’s Manatee County on Feb. 28, officials said, just weeks after a train carrying toxic chemicals came off the tracks in East Palestine, Ohio. Five railcars carrying sheet rock and two propane tankers were derailed in the 7200 block of 16 Street East in an industrial area north of…
2 Trains Collide in Greece, at Least 32 Killed, 85 Injured
ATHENS—Two trains collided head-on in Greece killing at least 32 people and injuring 85 late on Tuesday night, the fire brigade said, but the cause of the deadliest rail crash in Greece in decades remained unclear. An intercity passenger train traveling from Athens to the northern city of Thessaloniki collided at high speed with a…
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