Amtrak Cascades Train Derailment

Date: December 18, 2017 • Location: DuPont, United States

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

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.