Every reportable rail equipment accident — collision, derailment, fire, explosion, hazmat release — that meets FRA's monetary damage threshold (~$11.5k), since 1975. 224,299 records from FRA Form 54 source data. Per incident: reporting railroad code (NS, BNSF, UP, CSX, AMTK, etc), incident number, date + time, location (state/county/station/milepost), train characteristics (speed, direction, cars involved, hazmat cars derailed, passenger train flag), casualties (railroad employees / passengers / others killed and injured), reportable damage (equipment + track + total), conditions (temperature, visibility, weather), substance testing flags (alcohol, drug). Covers every Class I freight railroad, every Amtrak corridor, every commuter rail (Metra, SEPTA, LIRR, Metro-North, NJ Transit), every short-line. Includes Norfolk Southern East Palestine OH derailment (Feb 2023) and every other newsworthy US rail incident. Powers /rail-accident/{id} canonical Event JSON-LD pages.
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