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Erratic shifts and sleep deprivation may have contributed to the 2013 collision of two freight trains in southeast Missouri, according to a report from federal officials. The accident happened in May 2013 when a 60-car Union Pacific train hit a …

The National Transportation Safety Board says one of the two trains that collided head-on in western Oklahoma failed to take a side track and give the other locomotive the right of way. NTSB spokesman Mark Rosekind said Monday night that …