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Derailment

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A derailment occurs when one or more than one unit of rolling stock equipment leaves the rails during train operations for a cause other than collision, explosion, or fire. (FRA3)
See also Accident, Casualty, Collision, Crash, Event, Fatality, Incident, Injury. 
By the Bureau of Transportation Statistics.
 

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