List of American railroad accidents

This is a list of American railroad accidents.

Timeline

19th Century

• 1864 Shohola train wreck, Shohola, Pennsylvania; 60 killed
• 1867 Angola Horror, Angola, New York; 49 killed
• 1876 Ashtabula River Railroad Disaster, Ashtabula, Ohio; 92 killed
• 1887 Great Chatsworth Train Wreck, Chatsworth, Illinois; 81-85 killed

20th Century

• 1904 Eden train wreck, Pueblo, Colorado; 97 killed
• 1910 Wellington, Washington; 96 killed
• 1918 Great train wreck of 1918, Nashville, Tennessee; 101 killed
• 1918 Malbone Street Wreck, Brooklyn, New York; 93 killed
• 1918 Hammond Circus Train Wreck, Hammond, Indiana; 86 killed
• 1928 Times Square derailment, New York, New York; 18 killed
• 1940 Little Falls Gulf Curve crash, Little Falls, New York, 31 killed.
• 1943 Frankford Junction train wreck, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; 79 killed
• 1943 Rennert railroad accident, Rennert, North Carolina; 72 killed
• 1947 Naperville train disaster, Naperville, Illinois, 45 killed
• 1950 Kew Gardens train crash, Kew Gardens, New York; 78 killed
• 1951 Woodbridge train wreck, Woodbridge, New Jersey; 85 killed
• 1958 Newark Bay rail accident, Bayonne, New Jersey; 48 killed
• 1959 Meldrim Ga train wreck, Meldrim, Georgia; 23 killed
• 1987 Amtrak–Conrail collision, Chase, Maryland; 14 killed
• 1989 San Bernardino train disaster, San Bernadino, California; 4 killed
• 1991 Union Square derailment, New York, New York; 5 killed
• 1993 Big Bayou Canot train wreck, Mobile, Alabama; 47 killed
• 1996 MARC and Amtrak collision, Silver Spring, Maryland; 11 killed
• 1996 Wisconsin Central derailment, Weyauwega, Wisconsin; no fatalities
• 1999 Amtrak crash, Bourbonnais, Illinois; 11 killed

21st Century

• 2001 CSX derailment and fire, Baltimore, Maryland; no fatalities
• 2002 Canadian Pacific derailment, Minot, North Dakota
• 2002 Norfolk Southern derailment, Farragut, Tennessee; no fatalities
• 2005 Norfolk Southern crash, Graniteville, South Carolina; 9 killed
• 2005 Metrolink crash, Glendale, California; 11 killed
• 2007 CSX derailment, Brooks, Kentucky; no fatalities
• 2008 MBTA crash, Newton, Massachusetts; 1 killed
• 2008 Metrolink crash, Chatsworth, California; 25 killed
• 2009 Washington Metro crash, Washington, D.C.; 9 killed
• 2012 Union Pacific crash, Midland, Texas; 4 killed
• 2013 Metro-North crash, Fairfield, Connecticut; no fatalities
• 2013 CSX derailment, Spuyten Duyvil, New York; no fatalities
• 2013 Metro-North derailment, Spuyten Duyvil, New York; 4 killed
• 2014 CTA crash, Chicago, Illinois; no fatalities
• 2015 Metro-North crash, Valhalla, New York; 6 killed
• 2015 CSX derailment, Mount Carbon, West Virginia; no fatalities
• 2015 Metrolink derailment, Oxnard, California; 1 killed
• 2015 Amtrak derailment, Halifax, North Carolina; no fatalities
• 2015 Expo Line crash, Los Angeles, California; no fatalities
• 2015 Amtrak derailment, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; 8 killed
• 2016 Amtrak collision, Chester, Pennsylvania; 2 killed

See also

• Lists of rail accidents
• List of rail accidents by country
• List of disasters in the United States by death toll
• BNSF Railway accidents and incidents