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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Amtrak’s Southwest Chief, which offers daily service between Chicago and Los Angeles with stops in Kansas City, is in line for improvements based on proposals announced Monday.
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“On June 27, 2022, about 12:42 p.m. local time, eastbound National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak) train 4 (also known as the Southwest Chief), carrying 270 passengers and 12 crew, derailed in ...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Amtrak and BNSF Railway have filed suit against the company that owns the dump truck involved in Monday’s fatal collision and derailment of the Southwest Chief — and the widow of ...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - Amtrak and BNSF are suing the company that owned the dump truck that Southwest Chief Train 4 hit on Monday, causing a derailment.
The Southwest Chief train, headed from Los Angeles to Chicago with 275 passengers and 12 crew members, plowed into the back of a dump truck near the town of Mendon, Mo., northwest of Columbia, at ...
An ‘uncontrolled’ crossing The collision took place shortly after 12:40 p.m. on Monday, according to Amtrak. Eight of the train’s cars and two locomotives left the track, it said.