railway disasters

The derailment of a CSX Transportation train and the resulting deaths of two college students one year ago in Ellicott City are now woven in the fabric of the town, which has provided the women's bereft parents with tremendous support, the parents said.

Just blocks from the spot where Rose Mayr and Elizabeth Nass were killed during a train derailment last summer, about 600 people honored their memory by running a two-mile race through historic Ellicott City Saturday morning.

The Howard County Board of Education heard testimony from Elkridge residents Aug. 15 about the acquisition of a suggested new school site in the Oxford Square Development in Hanover.

Almost a year after the CSX train derailment in Ellicott City that took the lives of two young women, the community is planning a memorial run — 2 Miles for 2 Hearts — to raise money for memorial scholarships and to dedicate two park benches in Rose Mayr's and Elizabeth Nass' names.

The trash truck driver who police said caused the train derailment in Rosedale that triggered a fire and explosion said he slowed and looked as he approached the tracks but never saw or heard the CSX locomotive.

The Essex truck driver involved Rosedale train derailment was charged with seven traffic violations Thursday, Baltimore County police said.

The rail transport company CSX is suing the truck driver involved in last month's Rosedale train crash, arguing that he did not take proper care when crossing the railroad tracks.

Less than a month after a fiery train derailment in Rosedale, the Federal Railroad Administration Tuesday launched a smartphone mobile application to provide access to safety information about more than 200,000 highway-rail grade crossings.

An employee at a scaffolding company next to the railroad tracks in Rosedale was one of the first people to see the train leave its tracks after it rammed into a truck last month.

The National Transportation Safety Board released new details Wednesday on its investigation into last month's train derailment and explosion in Rosedale, finding that more chemicals were released in the crash than originally reported.

No injuries or hazardous material danger following June 7 incident

A CSX train carrying trash from Upstate New York derailed Friday evening in Lansdowne, Baltimore County officials said. No injuries were reported, and police said the train was not carrying hazardous materials.

The National Transportation Safety Board expects to conclude by week's end its on-scene investigation of the railroad crossing derailment and explosion in Rosedale.

John Alban Jr., the driver seriously injured after his truck collided with a freight train in Rosedale last week — triggering an explosion felt around the region — was discharged from the hospital Sunday.

Of the 631 public grade crossings in Maryland, only 20 percent are gated, according to FRA records.

As news poured in that a train had derailed and caused a large explosion less than two miles away in Rosedale, Bob Marshall, the emergency services administrator at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, began rapidly putting together an incident command center to deal with a potential influx of casualties or hazmat-contaminated patients.

Federal investigators on Thursday reconstructed the scene of this week's collision between a CSX cargo train and a truck, hoping to piece together more information on the derailment and explosion that rocked businesses and homes in the Rosedale area.

One day after a violent train derailment exploded into a giant plume of smoke and fire and sent powerful shock waves through a large commercial and residential stretch of Rosedale, business owners and neighbors took stock of the widespread damage — including blown-out windows, cracked foundations and a loss of structural integrity in some nearby buildings.

Local and federal officials knew early that harmful chemicals were on board a derailed train outside Baltimore and worked to reduce the risk.

With a jarring explosion and a cloud of smoke seen for miles, a train crash and derailment loudly raises the issue of rail crossing safety

A freight train smacked into a truck carrying garbage and careened off the tracks in Rosedale Tuesday afternoon, triggering an explosion felt throughout the region and sending up a plume of black smoke visible for miles.

Wednesday's rush hour remained uncharacteristically incident free through 9 a.m., as the state Department of Transportation reported no unscheduled road closures.

Numerous Harford County residents in the Fallston, Joppa and Bel Air areas felt the tremble Tuesday afternoon when a train derailed in the Rosedale area of Baltimore County near the Baltimore City line.

Parking Lot B in Downtown Ellicott City will be closed beginning Monday, April 22, for the reconstruction of a retaining wall adjacent to the CSX railroad tracks.

Emergency crews from three states responded late Wednesday night to the scene of a derailed train in Cecil County after a sulfuric acid leak was reported, but no leak was found, according to the Cecil County Department of Emergency Services.

One month after a train derailed in Ellicott City, causing the accidental deaths of two teenage girls, the community has rallied together to put the historic district back on track.

A new exhibit opening this month at the Sykesville Gate House Museum of History, "Gone Off the Rails: When Safety Fails," explores the times when the town's relationship with locomotives went a little off-track.

Track conditions on a CSX Transportation Railroad line appear to be the focus of a federal investigation into a train derailment that killed two women in Ellicott City last month.

Three stunned-sounding callers told 911 operators that a train had just derailed in downtown Ellicott City, but none reported seeing anyone near the wreck that killed two 19-year-olds last week.

After the CSX train derailment early Aug. 28, Main Street in Ellicott City is finally open, and many turned out to support local businesses in Main Street Appreciation Weekend.

In the days after her sister, Rose, died in a train derailment, Anna Mayr felt as if her younger sibling were upstairs sleeping while friends swapped stories on the family's Ellicott City porch until the early hours of Sunday.

Ellicott City's Main Street is expected to reopen Friday at 7 p.m., nearly four days after a CSX coal train derailed on the tracks located near Maryland Avenue and resulted in the deaths of two teenage girls.

Some 700 mourners filled the pews Friday of the Church of the Resurrection for a funeral Mass for 19-year-old Elizabeth Nass, who died after being "at the wrong place at the wrong time," Monsignor John A. Dietzenbach said.

Spearheaded by a local blogger, a Main Street Appreciation Weekend is taking shape to support Ellicott City businesses impacted by the CSX train derailment earlier this week.

The state medical examiner has ruled the deaths of two college-aged girls who perished in a train derailment in Ellicott City Tuesday accidental.

It seems that Ellicott City has experienced an inordinate amount of disasters from floods, fires and railroad wrecks since its founding in 1772.

The death of two Ellicott City teens who were buried in coal after a CSX train derailed shortly after midnight Tuesday has been ruled an accident, according to Howard County Police.

It could take months or even years before the independent federal agency reaches a conclusion about the cause of the CSX train derailment in Ellicott City that ended with Rose Mayr and Elizabeth Nass, both 19, buried in coal on a railroad bridge in the historic downtown.

Senseless loss of 19-year-old college students in coal train derailment a reminder of the dangers of railroad right-of-ways

The derailment that killed two young women in Ellicott City yesterday adds once more incident to a long history of CSX trains leaving the tracks in Maryland – from little-remembered events in the company's own train yards to the spectacular fire in the Howard Street Tunnel in 2001.

A train derailed in Ellicott City early Monday, killing two people

A fatal train derailment in Ellicott City is expected to close Frederick Road/Main Street for up to 30 hours, impacting area businesses.

A fatal train derailment in Ellicott City is expected to close Frederick Road/Main Street for up to 30 hours, impacting area businesses.