On the evening of July 18, 2013, a CSX freight train carrying municipal solid waste on tracks of the Hudson Line along the Harlem River Ship Canal in the New York City borough of The Bronx partially d
A waste container spilled on the tracks shortly after the accident
A different CSX freight using the bypass track at the Marble Hill station, shown in October 2014
Workers inspecting the accident site shortly afterwards
The narrow rock cut where the derailment occurred complicated cleanup efforts
On the morning of December 1, 2013, a Metro-North Railroad Hudson Line passenger train derailed near the Spuyten Duyvil station in the New York City borough of the Bronx. Four of the 115 passengers we
July 2013 Spuyten Duyvil derailment
…to maintain the track and surrounding ballast to the point that the track went out of gauge. Later in the year, in a comprehensive safety review after another derailment of a passenger train nearby resulted in the first passenger fatalities in Metro-North's history, the NTSB cited the maintenance shortfall as part of an inadequate "safety culture…
Aerial view of the derailment
The lead train car involved in the derailment, pictured in 2009 leading a Harlem Line train into North White Plains
Wreck scene late that afternoon
MTA crews working through the night to lay new track