Talk:List of American railroad accidents

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Meaning, please?
Such accidents might have a specific adverse effect on Transportation safety in the United States.
 * The lede includes this statement. What does it mean? Valetude (talk) 22:51, 21 April 2020 (UTC)

Add accident from June 15, 1970
I'm not sure how to do edits but I'll share the information. One individual, Marc Torbica, was a neighbor of my grandparents so I remember this well. A Penn-Central freight train slammed into the back of another Penn-Central train near Massilon, OH. The impact was so intense the caboose was flung forward, shearing off the top of the engine. The train turned into a scorpion's tail. The only reference to this I could find was in Google's newspaper archives for the Beaver County Times (PA) from June 15, 1970. https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=QLZAdv6BrvsC&dat=19700615&printsec=frontpage&hl=en 76.100.168.73 (talk) 23:05, 15 April 2023 (UTC)


 * @76.100.168.73 Thank you! I've just added an entry for it. BalinKingOfMoria (talk) 22:30, 16 April 2023 (UTC)

Reports of notable accidents
I found https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/cbrowse?pid=dot%3A44452&parentId=dot%3A44452 has reports of all rail accidents from 1911 to 1993. It may be good to use them to write new articles about such events. WhisperToMe (talk) 22:09, 31 July 2023 (UTC)

Train Collision Tyler, Texas 1970
A Cotton Belt freight train collided with a gasoline truck on the morning of June 25, 1970 in Tyler, Texas. Two crew members were killed in the crash, but the truck driver escaped when the trailer broke free from the cab. 24.54.116.69 (talk) 19:45, 4 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Although the above has not been included in the article, there are instances listed where only a single person died. I imagine hundreds of fatal train accidents occur at crossings every year, so is there any criteria to determine which ones warrant listing in the article? I came across an unlisted 1910 head-on collision near Spokane where 8 were killed (https://open.library.ubc.ca/viewer/omineca/1.0082888#p0z-4r0f:"spokane") but wondered if even this deserved an entry. DMBanks1 (talk) 18:51, 18 January 2024 (UTC)