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1989 Helena train wreck

The Helena Train Wreck occurred in the early morning on February 2, 1989 in Helena, Montana, USA, when 48 cars of a Montana Rail Link freight train that had been decoupled from their locomotives by a train crew on Mullan Pass rolled backwards down the pass, traveling nine miles back into the city of Helena and colliding with a work train at a railway crossing near the center of the community.

Bank Foot Metro station

For the first few years of the Metro, it shared the line with occasional British Rail freight trains running to the ICI depot at Callerton, where explosives were transferred from rail to road for onward transport to quarries in Northumberland; this traffic ceased in 1989.

Gawler Central railway line

The line was constructed in 1857-58 to connect the Adelaide with copper resources at Kapunda and Burra, as well as to provide passenger and freight services to the new town of Gawler.

Margaret Kilgallen

The latter name, a homage to folk musician Matokie Slaughter, was specifically used for freight train graffiti.

Rusty Draper

In 1956, he returned to the Top 20 with "In The Middle Of The House" (No. 20), followed up by his version of Chas McDevitt’s UK skiffle hit, "Freight Train" (No. 3).

State University Railroad

Elizabeth 'Libba' Cotten's famous song "Freight Train" was written when, as a young girl, she heard the train pass behind her house on Lloyd Street in Carrboro.


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Bairnsdale railway station

Until mid-2009, A five day a week freight train hauling logs from Bairnsdale to North Geelong Yard operated from a siding on the up (Melbourne) side of Bairnsdale station.

Bootle railway station

At about 22:17 on 22 March 1945 a wagon containing depth charges in southbound freight train caught fire on approaching Bootle.

Caio Vianna Martins

In the early hours of December 19, 1938, Martins was travelling with a group of Scouts from Belo Horizonte to São Paulo, when their passenger train collided head-on with a freight train near the city of Barbacena, resulting in many injuries and approximately 40 deaths.

Chester General rail crash

The train had run from Ellesmere Port as an unbraked freight train and stopped at Helsby, where it needed to reverse.

Dahlerau train disaster

The Dahlerau train disaster was a railway accident that took place on May 27, 1971 in Dahlerau, a small town in Radevormwald, West Germany, in which a freight train and a passenger train collided head-on.

Dave Nachmanoff

At the age of ten (circa 1975) he played with Elizabeth Cotton (“Freight Train”), garnering a positive review in a local D.C. (but now defunct) paper, The Washington Star.

Dove Holes railway station

In 1957, the gradient into Chapel-en-le-Frith was the scene of a serious accident, in which the driver of a runaway freight train, John Axon remained at his post and died, being awarded a posthumous George Cross.

FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives by year, 1952

Nick George Montos - reappeared as Fugitive #94 in 1956; was a U.S. prisoner arrested August 23, 1954 in Chicago, Illinois when his automobile was identified by two Special Agents, as he and a companion waited for a freight train to pass at a railroad crossing

Köln West station

The freight train tracks separate at an at-grade junction at the northern end of West Cologne station; one line connects to the Ehrenfeld district and on to the Cologne–Aachen high-speed railway and another runs to Cologne-Nippes and on to the Lower Left Rhine Railway.

Limburg-Staffel–Siershahn railway

During the period required for its repair, a steam-hauled freight train of the Hanau railway museum (Museumseisenbahn Hanau) railway ran over the Taunus to Steinefrenz station to supply the concrete sleepers.

M250 series

Sagawa Express began operating one train as a reserved "Special high speed freight train" between Tokyo Freight Terminal and Ajikawaguchi Station (Osaka) on the 13 March 2004, schedule revision.

Matokie Slaughter

During the 1990s, San Francisco artist Margaret Kilgallen began drawing freight train graffiti using the name "Matokie Slaughter" as an homage to the original Matokie Slaughter.

Mikawashima Station

The crash occurred about 350 meters east of Mikawashima Station when an Ueno-bound passenger train (train number 2000H) crashed into the wreckage of a crash between a Toride-bound passenger train (2117H) and a Mito-bound freight train (number 287) as well as a crowd of evacuating passengers from 2117H.

Pensacola and Fort Barrancas Railroad

The trestle across Bayou Grande, immediately north of Chevalier Field on NAS Pensacola, was featured in the 1957 MGM film "Wings of Eagles" starring John Wayne, with a steam-powered freight train crossing the span during a floatplane buzz job.

Peter David Edstrom

He returned to Sweden after a hobo's journey started in a freight train car on July 29, 1894 and ended (after a wage earner's trip across the Atlantic) in Stockholm where he supported himself during his studies at the Stockholm's Royal Institute of Technology and Royal Swedish Academy of Arts.

PRR L2s

As heavier trains on the Pennsylvania Railroad became a reality, the Pennsylvania Railroad needed a heavier steam locomotive to handle a freight train on the system, so the L2s was demoted to smaller services and eventually retirement, when engines like the J1 and in later years, diesels replaced them too.

Rail World

After the derailment at Lac-Mégantic, Quebec, Canada of a Montreal, Maine and Atlantic Railway freight train on 6 July 2013 which left 47 people dead or missing, president Edward Burkhardt visited Lac-Mégantic on 10 July 2013, and was heckled by residents who were critical of his company's response to the incident.

Sarai Banjara train disaster

As he was walking to the train office in Sarai Banjara, the Howrah Mail train travelling between Calcutta and Amritsar crashed into the derailed freight train head on at high speed.

The accident started when a cracked rail on the line between Mandi Gobindgarh and Rajpura in Punjab derailed a large freight train at 5.40am without causing any injuries.

Sheffield Victoria railway station

Sheffield-based industrial music pioneers Cabaret Voltaire filmed the video to their track Yashar in the remains of the station in the early-1980s; at one point a class 20 hauled freight train is seen passing through.

Southall rail crash

The crash occurred after the 10:32 Great Western Trains passenger train from Swansea to London Paddington, worked by power cars 43173 + 43163 and operating with a defective Automatic Warning System (AWS), passed a red (danger) signal (SPAD), preceded by two cautionary signals, and collided with a freight train entering Southall goods yard shortly before 13:20 local time.

Umschlagplatz

The Umschlagplatz was created by fencing off a western part of the Warszawa Gdańska freight train station that was adjacent to the ghetto.

Viareggio railway station

On 29 June 2009, shortly before midnight, freight train no. 50 325 from Trecate to Gricignano derailed near the station, causing the explosion of a tank carrying LPG, the collapse of some houses nearby and the deaths of 32 people.

Where's Huddles?

Other characters included Ed's wife Marge Huddles (voiced by Jean Vander Pyl, also the voice of Wilma Flintstone), their rather jovial if acerbic neighbor Claude Pertwee (voiced by Paul Lynde) who tended to refer to Ed and Bubba as "savages" {Pertwee's only friend is a spoiled cat named "Beverley"}; their teammate Freight Train (voiced by Herb Jeffries), and their daughter Pom-Pom.

Zoufftgen train collision

The Luxembourger driver of TER 837 617 received an order to pass a red (stop) signal to enter the zone operated by freight train number 45 938, pulled by SNCF Class BB 37000 locomotive 37007 from the Thionville depot, which had entered the section as normal by passing a green signal.