derailment
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Origin of derailment
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Stripping out certain one-time items, such as expenses related to its tie-up with Union Pacific and continued costs from its freight-train derailment in Ohio, earnings were $2.65 a share.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026
Stripping out certain one-time items, such as expenses related to its tie-up with Union Pacific and continued costs from its freight-train derailment in Ohio, earnings were $3.22 a share.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 29, 2026
A fatal accident inquiry into a train derailment which killed three men in the north east of Scotland is due to begin.
From BBC • Jan. 26, 2026
The working theory for investigators is that a crack in one of the rails might have caused a derailment.
From Barron's • Jan. 25, 2026
Chances are his train was late, because in 1984 there was a fire somewhere on the New York system every day and a derailment every other week.
From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell
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