The last significant train collision involving Metro-North occurred in 1988 when a train engineer was killed in Mount Vernon, N.
Just 20 seconds elapsed between the time the first train came to rest and the moment it was struck by the westbound train, whose engineer had deployed emergency brakes to slow the train.
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Five people in the two cars were taken to Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau, as were a Union Pacific train conductor and an engineer.
Four people who were on board, including the train's driver and engineer, were not hurt.
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Four people on board, including the train's driver and engineer, escaped unhurt.
The attorney representing the engineer on the westbound train said other railroad employees have described repeated calls to replace the joint at the site of the derailment since early this year.
WSJ: Probe of Metro-North Derailment in Connecticut Focuses on Rail
The engineer on the second train has told investigators that both appeared to be operating normally as they approached each other, just outside a curved stretch of track in Bridgeport, according to Mr. Cahill.
WSJ: Probe of Metro-North Derailment in Connecticut Focuses on Rail
In a statement issued Friday, the NTSB said the engineer of the eastbound train that derailed told investigators he noticed "an unusual condition on the track" as the train approached the area of the derailment in Bridgeport, Conn.
WSJ: Probe of Metro-North Derailment in Connecticut Focuses on Rail
One of Maputo's landmark buildings is the train station designed by an associate of the famous French engineer Alexandre Gustave Eiffel.
Fyodorov played a long welcoming note on his horn to signal that the section was ready for the train to enter, and respectfully held his lantern out toward the engineer, his unknown friend, the only person who was aware of him at that moment, and who would be pleased that all was as it should be.
Then the second engineer noticed strange movement in the overhead catenary wires above the eastbound train, and hit the emergency brake on his train, Mr. Cahill said.
WSJ: Probe of Metro-North Derailment in Connecticut Focuses on Rail
The death of the unemployed telecoms engineer was confirmed as suicide, after the report authors re-interviewed the driver of the train that he threw himself in front of.
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