On Monday morning, November 27, 4 wagons carrying molten sulfur derailed near Lakeland, Florida. Emergency Management personnel issued a warning to local residents asking them to stay indoors and close all windows as sulfur ...
Estonian Prime Minister Juri Ratas signed an agreement of intent with representatives of Hyperloop One on cooperation in the construction of the Tallinn-Helsinki underwater tunnel. This was reported by the press service of the government. “Although the innovative transport technology is still under development, and the main tests ...
The test capsule of the hyperloop supersonic train was accelerated to a record speed of 355 km / h. The previous record was set by the WARR team from the Munich University of Technology during the Hyperloop Pod Competition. Students were able to accelerate the capsule up to 324 km / h. It is believed that the train will be able to accelerate ...
42 people were injured in a high-speed passenger train collision with an empty train near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The South East Pennsylvania Transportation Service (SEPTA) clarified that the incident occurred on the night of August 21-22 at the transportation terminal in Upper Derby in Pennsylvania, CBS reported. ...
In New York, a transit train at Penn Station derailed on Thursday night, July 6. At the time of the incident, there were 180 passengers and crew members on the train. Officials say NJ Transit # 3276 derailed around 21:00 pm. ABOUT…
An elderly woman from New York received a real gun in the mail instead of a toy train for her 6-year-old granddaughter. Opening the package delivered by UPS and seeing the contents - copies of a driver's license and a concealed weapon license issued to a man from Arizona ...
Residents of the city of San Francisco were faced with a pleasant surprise when public transport was free on Thanksgiving Day - and through Sunday inclusive. Anyone could travel for free on buses, trains and trams, Motherboard reports. As it turned out later, free travel was the result of hacker attacks...
Two carriages of the Voronezh-Moscow passenger train unhooked from the train while in motion. The incident took place on July 9 at about 07:50 Moscow time near the Otrozhka station. Noticing the absence of cars, the driver applied emergency braking. As reported in the press service of the South-Eastern Linear Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs at ...
More than 5 thousand residents of the city of Maryville, in the US state of Tennessee, were evacuated after a train containing dangerous chemicals caught fire near the city. The evacuees will be able to return home only after 48 hours, the district authorities said. Within a radius of one mile (1,6 km) from ...
The train, which was heading from Washington to New York, had 238 passengers and five crew members. It was owned by the national passenger rail company Amtrak. The train never reached its final station - it derailed in Port Richmond, Philadelphia. 7 people died in the accident...