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Topic: derailment

Ohio EPA and EPA contractors collect soil and air samples from the derailment site on March 9, 2023 in East Palestine, Ohio. Cleanup efforts continue after a Norfolk Southern train carrying toxic chemicals derailed causing an environmental disaster. (Michael Swensen/Getty Images)

Railroad towns after East Palestine

John McCracken - Grist
Rescue workers search for victims in the wreckage of a derailed Amtrak train in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania May 12, 2015. (Reuters/Bryan Woolston)

This is why Amtrak derailed

Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Emergency personnel work the scene of a deadly train wreck, Tuesday, May 12, 2015, in Philadelphia. (AP/Joseph Kaczmarek)

Inside the Amtrak derailment

Joanna Rothkopf
(AP/Luann Hunt)

Lindsay Abrams