2002
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[edit] By month
[edit] January
- January 7 – Amtrak train number 351 between Kalamazoo, Michigan, and Porter, Indiana, and eventually on to Chicago, becomes the first Amtrak train to regularly travel at 90 mph in regular service.[1]
- January 18 – An eastbound Canadian Pacific Railway train encounters a broken rail in Minot, North Dakota, and derails. Five tank cars carrying anhydrous ammonia are ruptured and spill 146,700 gallons of the chemical; the vapor plume kills one resident, injures about 350 other people and affects about 11,600 as emergency crews advise residents to shelter-in-place.[2]
[edit] June
- Construction begins to extend Korea's Gyeongbu Line from Daegu to Busan.
[edit] July
- July 29 – Amtrak's eastbound Capitol Limited encounters a track misalignment in Kensington, Maryland, just northwest of Washington, D.C., and derails 11 of its 13 cars; 95 people are injured in the accident, 16 of them seriously.[3]
[edit] October
- October 21 – The engineer of a westbound Union Pacific Railroad train leaving Proviso Yard in Chicago falls asleep at the controls, causing his train to collide with a BNSF Railway freight train negotiating a crossover at Norma Interlocking in Des Plaines, Illinois; the crew of the UP train receive minor injuries in the accident.[4]
[edit] Unknown date
[edit] References
- ↑ Railroad History Timeline - 2000's. RRHX: Michigan's Internet Railroad History Museum. Retrieved on 2008-01-06.
- ↑ Railroad Accident Report: Derailment of Canadian Pacific Railway Freight Train 292-16 and Subsequent Release of Anhydrous Ammonia Near Minot, North Dakota, January 18, 2002. United States National Transportation Safety Board. Retrieved on 2008-01-18.
- ↑ Railroad Accident Brief: Derailment of Amtrak Train No. 30, The Capitol Limited, on CSX Transportation’s Metropolitan Subdivision in Kensington, Maryland, July 29, 2002.. United States National Transportation Safety Board (2004-05-28). Retrieved on 2008-01-18.
- ↑ Railroad Accident Brief: Collision and Derailment of Union Pacific Freight Trains MPRSS-21 and AJAPRB-21 at Des Plaines, Illinois, October 21, 2002. United States National Transportation Safety Board (2004-05-27). Retrieved on 2008-01-18.
