About 10:09 a.m. on November 12, 1983, Amtrak train No. 21 (The Eagle), with 162 persons aboard, derailed near Woodlawn, Texas, while traveling at 72 mph on the Missouri Pacific Railroad. The train was traveling westbound on the single main track when it passed over a section of rail that a repair crew had just installed to replace a broken rail. The accident resulted in 4 passenger fatalities and 72 injuries. The National Transportation Safety Board determines that the probable cause of this accident was torch-cutting a chrome-vanadium alloy rail in a track curve while making a temporary track repair, precipitating thermal cracks that served as the origin points for a catastrophic rail failure when a high-speed passenger train passed over.


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    Title :

    Railroad Accident Report - Derailment of Amtrak Train No. 21 (The Eagle) on the Missouri Pacific Railroad, Woodlawn, Texas, November 12, 1983


    Publication date :

    1985


    Size :

    60 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English