v0 · term-space LSA · axis 7
railroad · accid · pacif · train · road · central
railroad, accid, pacif, train, road, central, philadelphia, pennsylvania, freight, car, railway, eri, report, albani, fatal, western, offic, line, ohio, track, compani, baltimor, bridg, foreign
dominant in 1768 stories · variance scale 125.2572
Energy by year
1999 → 2026
Human sections of its stories
| Section (Wikipedia Current Events) | stories |
|---|
| Disasters and accidents | 107 |
| Disasters | 30 |
| Business and economy | 14 |
| International relations | 14 |
| Law and crime | 10 |
| Armed conflicts and attacks | 7 |
| Politics and elections | 7 |
| Science and technology | 4 |
The canon
The purest instances over the years: one story per episode, by coordinate on this axis.
| Date | Story | coord | energy |
|---|
| 2003-06-01 | The Railroad Museum of the Niagara Frontier opens. | 0.40 | 0.7 |
| 2005-12-25 | Railroad train Inaho derailed on the Uetsu Main Line in northern Japan, killing four and injuring at least 33. | 0.32 | 0.7 |
| 2016-04-22 | A passenger train derails near the South Korean city of Yeosu resulting in the death of a railroad engineer and eight people being injured. | 0.30 | 0.7 |
| 2023-12-14 | At least 515 people are injured in a rear-end collision between railroad cars on the Changping line of the Beijing Subway in China near the Xi'erqi station amid snowfall. | 0.25 | 0.7 |
| 2023-05-17 | Russian president Vladimir Putin signs an investment program deal that will make an investment of 1.6 billion euros in Iranian railroad projects, which are expected to begin operation within 48 months | 0.24 | 0.7 |
| 2023-09-01 | Six people are killed when a train collides with a minibus at a railroad crossing in San Pedro de la Paz, Bío-Bío Region, Chile. | 0.24 | 0.7 |
| 2010-09-11 | Four people are dead and twenty-five people are hospitalised after a Coach USA Megabus crashes into a railroad overpass in Salina, New York. | 0.23 | 0.7 |
| 2018-02-10 | Heath Hall, the acting Federal Railroad Administration chief, resigns "effective immediately" over a Politico report that he has a second job in Madison County, Mississippi. | 0.23 | 0.7 |
| 2022-09-14 | US railroad workers prepare for strike as rail companies see record profits | 0.23 | 2.8 |
| 2024-08-21 | Canadian National Railway and Canadian Pacific Kansas City lock out roughly 10,000 unionized railroad workers in Canada, leading to a railway stoppage that impacts many North American supply chains an | 0.22 | 0.7 |
| 2020-02-14 | Canadian National suspends operations of its railroad network in eastern Canada, and Via Rail cancels most passenger inter-city rail service in Canada, in response to a blockade by First Nations activ | 0.21 | 0.7 |
| 2020-04-01 | Federal authorities charge 44-year-old Eduardo Moreno, a railroad engineer, with train-wrecking after he allegedly derailed a train near USNS Mercy to bring attention to the U.S. government's response | 0.21 | 0.7 |
| 2025-08-25 | Greater risk of toxic derailments if $85bn railroad merger is approved, warn unions | 0.21 | 0.7 |
| 2017-04-10 | The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead and Sweat by Lynn Nottage win the Pultizer Prizes for Fiction and Drama respectively. | 0.21 | 0.7 |
| 2022-12-16 | Railroad workers pressure Congress and Biden to address working conditions | 0.20 | 0.7 |
| 2023-09-14 | An explosion at the Union Pacific Railroad Bailey Yard in North Platte, Nebraska, United States, the world’s largest railyard, causes evacuations in the area due to toxic smoke. | 0.20 | 0.7 |
| 2023-02-20 | Ohio train derailment reveals need for urgent reform, workers say | 0.19 | 2.2 |
| 2005-10-15 | Seven train cars and a tank car containing flammable gas derailed at a railroad switch yard in Texarkana, Arkansas. The derailment caused a liquefied gas leak and explosion that killed one person and | 0.18 | 0.7 |
| 2005-08-24 | Chinese railroad workers in Tibet laid rail tracks on the Tanggula Mountain Pass in the Tanggula Mountains in Tibet at 5,072 m (16,640 ft) above sea level, surpassing the altitude of the highest Peruv | 0.17 | 0.7 |
| 2015-06-10 | Majority of US commuter railroads will not meet new safety requirements | 0.17 | 2.2 |
| 2021-08-28 | LGBT organization Rainbow Railroad says that it has received hundreds of requests for help, mainly from Afghan gay men. Exiled Afghan LGBT activist Nemat Sadat warned last week that under the Taliban, | 0.17 | 0.7 |
| 2023-05-01 | US rail companies grant paid sick days after public pressure in win for unions | 0.17 | 0.7 |
| 2006-05-06 | Warehouse burns in Helsinki, Finland | 0.16 | 0.7 |
| 2022-03-14 | ‘Completely demoralized’: US railroad workers pushed to the brink | 0.16 | 0.7 |
| 2022-11-30 | ‘Joe Biden blew it’: rail unions decry plan to impose deal through Congress | 0.16 | 3.2 |
| 2015-07-19 | Reburial of woman in native Ireland highlights 183-year-old murder mystery | 0.15 | 0.7 |
| 2007-07-17 | US intercity passenger train collides with truck, derails | 0.15 | 0.7 |
| 2015-02-04 | New York train crash investigators comb for clues after six killed | 0.15 | 5.4 |
| 2025-05-01 | The Underground Railroad went all the way to Canada – and a new photo exhibit preserves that legacy | 0.15 | 0.7 |
| 2023-03-03 | Leaked audio reveals US rail workers were told to skip inspections as Ohio crash prompts scrutiny to industry | 0.15 | 0.7 |
| 2024-04-29 | He led a strike at Kellogg’s. Now he’s aiming for a Nebraska Senate seat | 0.15 | 0.7 |
| 2022-09-15 | Biden hails ‘tentative agreement’ to avoid looming US rail strike | 0.14 | 3.9 |
| 2010-06-29 | Czech train derails, at least one dead | 0.14 | 0.7 |
| 2005-01-17 | Safe house in the Underground Railroad to be torn down | 0.14 | 0.7 |
| 2007-10-07 | Bus and train collision kills at least 28 in Cuba | 0.14 | 0.7 |
| 2023-04-03 | Majority-Black town fights to stop land being seized for gravel quarry rail link | 0.14 | 0.7 |
| 2025-04-07 | Harriet Tubman webpage targeted amid Trump-led anti-DEI efforts | 0.13 | 0.7 |
| 2006-12-27 | Local groups could be the way to get branch lines back on track | 0.13 | 0.7 |
| 2023-03-09 | New Utah oil railroad by Colorado River raises health and climate fears | 0.13 | 0.7 |
| 2023-06-19 | Did this tomato travel the Underground Railroad? | 0.13 | 0.7 |