Historical eventDecember 182017

Amtrak Cascades

An Amtrak Cascades passenger train derailed near DuPont, Washington, killing three people and injuring sixty-five others.

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When
Monday, December 18 20179 years ago
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Era
21st century · 2010s
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Dates: From 1971-05-01.

Place: British Columbia, Canada.

Type: named passenger train service and international train.

What happened

History The Mount Rainier in 1974. Note the dome car and coaches still bearing pre- Burlington Northern liveries. Prior service Passenger train service between Seattle and Portland—the core of what became the Cascades corridor—was operated as a joint partnership by the Northern Pacific , Great Northern , and Union Pacific from 1925 to 1970, with the three railroads cross-honoring tickets on their Seattle-Portland routes. When Great Northern and Northern Pacific were folded into the Burlington Northern in 1970,

The Amtrak Cascades is a passenger train route in the Pacific Northwest, operated by Amtrak in partnership with the U.S. states of Washington and Oregon. It is named after the Cascade mountain range that the route parallels. The 460-mile (740 km) corridor runs from Vancouver, British Columbia, through Seattle, Washington, and Portland, Oregon, to Eugene, Oregon.

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December 18 2017 — 9 years ago, on a Monday.

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