What the records say
- When
- 4 Jan 1987
- Kind
- Rail accident
- Coordinates
- 39.38° N, 76.36° W
- Description
- Train accident
- Deaths
- 16
- Injured
- 164
- Cause
- human error
1987 Maryland train collision
1987 rail transit disaster in Chase, Maryland, USA
On January 4, 1987, two trains collided on Amtrak's Northeast Corridor main line near Chase, Maryland, United States, at Gunpow Interlocking. Amtrak train 94, the Colonial, traveling north from Washington, D.C., to Boston, crashed at over 100 miles per hour (160 km/h) into a set of Conrail locomotives running light that had fouled the mainline.
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