A drone shot of rescuers work at the site of passenger trains accident, in Balasore district, in the eastern Indian state of Orissa, on Saturday. Arabinda Mahapatra/AP hide caption
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Smoke rises from a derailed cargo train in East Palestine, Ohio, on Feb. 4. Dustin Franz/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
A photo provided by Sarah Qamar shows a Long Island Railroad train derailed near New Hyde Park, N.Y., Saturday. The commuter train hit a work train on the tracks. Sarah Qamar/AP hide caption
Passengers gather after their Amtrak train derailed near Dodge City, Kan., early Monday morning. AP hide caption
Two passenger trains lay next to each other in India after they derailed Tuesday night. The accident is being blamed on flash floods outside the town of Harda in Madhya Pradesh state. AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Oil trains sit idle on the BNSF Railway's tracks in Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood. David Schaper/NPR hide caption
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Emergency personnel work at the scene the day after a deadly train derailment on May 12 in Philadelphia. Patrick Semansky/AP hide caption
A fireball goes up at the site of an oil train derailment in Casselton, N.D., in this Dec. 30 photo. The fiery crash left an ominous cloud over the town and led some residents to evacuate. Bruce Crummy/AP hide caption
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An injured man who was on a subway train that derailed Tuesday in Moscow talks on his phone after being treated by paramedics. Dmitry Serebryakov/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Cranes prepare to salvage the last car from from a train derailment in the Bronx section of New York, in December 2013. Seth Wenig/AP hide caption
A plume of smoke rises from scene of a derailed train near Casselton, N.D., on Monday. Michael Vosburg/Reuters/Landov hide caption
A train passes by the scene of repair efforts Tuesday at the site of a train derailment in the Bronx borough of New York. Seth Wenig/AP hide caption
Monday, as a train on an unaffected track passed by (in the background) work continued on removing the commuter cars that derailed the day before. Mark Lennihan/AP hide caption
Search and rescue teams work at the scene of Sunday's passenger train crash in the Bronx. The train crash killed four people and injured dozens more. Craig Ruttle/AP hide caption
Emergency personnel respond to the scene of a train derailment in Santiago de Compostela, Spain. Antonio Hernandez/El Correo Gallego via AP hide caption
At a school in Lac-Mégantic, Quebec, the town's people have been waiting for word about their friends and family members. Christinne Muschi/Reuters /Landov hide caption
A still image from a video posted by Eastern Truck and Trailer captures a moment just before a commercial truck's trailer was struck by a freight train Tuesday. ETT Corp/YouTube hide caption
The scene of the derailment today in Paulsboro, N.J., from above. NBC10 Philadephia hide caption