The report describes and analyzes the train collision in which the train overran a station stop, attempted to back up to the platform, and was struck from the rear by another train operating on the same track. The first car of the following train overrode the underframe of the last car of the lead train and telescoped the car. The National Transportation Safety Board determines that the probable cause of the accident was the reverse movement of train 416 (the lead train) without flag protection into a previously vacated signal block and the failure of the engineer of train 720 (the following train), to perceive the train ahead in time to avoid the collision.


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    Title :

    Railroad Accident Report: Collision of Illinois Central Gulf Railroad Commuter Trains, Chicago, Illinois, October 30, 1972


    Publication date :

    1973


    Size :

    64 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English