Vermont Train Derailments 2026
Quick answer: Vermont had 2 train derailments in 2026 through August, the latest month in the FRA data, compared with 1 in January-August 2025. 2025 ended with 1 derailments. FRA figures run 2-3 months behind: for a derailment today, see accidents today.
Updated · FRA records through 31 August 2026 · Source: Federal Railroad Administration, Form 54 (public domain)
Looking for a derailment today? Official FRA data lags 2-3 months, so recent crashes are not on this map yet. See accidents today (every accident report from the last 24 hours) and the live accident map, which lists rail accidents from news reports every 15 minutes, or Vermont accidents today.
Vermont train derailment map
Every derailment in Vermont reported to the FRA in 2025 and 2026, placed at the coordinates the railroad reported. Click a dot for the railroad, cars derailed, hazmat, injuries, cause and the official FRA report.
3 derailments shown
Latest train derailments in Vermont
Newest first, as filed by the railroads. Filters above also apply to this list.
| Date | Place | Railroad | Cars | Hazmat | Hurt | Cause (FRA) | Report |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-18 | Rockingham, Windham County | Green Mountain Railroad Corporation | 3 | 2 damaged | none | Switch improperly linedRailroad's descriptionTHE BELLOWS FALLS SWITCHER WAS SWITCHING CARS ON THE WEST END OF THE RIVERSIDE YARD IN ROCKINGHAM,VT. THEY LEFT A CUT OF 4 CARS ON THE MAIN TRACK EAST AND CLEAR OF THE WEST ONE SWITCH. THEY THEN WENT EAST ON TRACK ONE TO RUN AROUND THESE CARS AND PULL SOME CARS OFF THE PAN AM TRACK. IN DOING SO, THEY LEFT THE WEST T... |
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| 2026-01-27 | Brattleboro, Windham County passenger | Amtrak (National Railroad Passenger Corporation) | 2 | none | none | Switch improperly linedRailroad's descriptionTrain 55(27) with E/145 and 5 cars reported they derailed E/145 and the headend truck of C/48190 inthe interlocking at MP 110.5 on the NECR Palmer subdivision. |
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| 2025-02-09 | Rutland, Rutland County passenger | Amtrak (National Railroad Passenger Corporation) | 2 | none | none | Wide gage (due to defective or missing spikes or other rail fasteners)Railroad's descriptionTrain 291(09) E/710, 5 cars and E/116 was involved in a derailment at Rutland Yard/MP 55.0 on the VTR Clarendon & Pittsford Subdivision. E/710 was reported to be completely on the ground. Car 82570 was reported to have the first truck nearest E/710 on the ground. |
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"Cars" counts derailed cars and locomotives. "Hazmat" counts cars carrying hazardous materials: released = some product escaped. Showing up to 50 rows; the map has all 3.
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Vermont train derailments by year
2026 covers January-August only. Each derailment is counted once, even when more than one railroad filed a report.
* 2026 to date (January-August, preliminary). Source: FRA Form 54, distinct accidents with accident type "derailment".
Top causes of train derailments in Vermont
The railroad codes a primary cause on every report from FRA's train accident cause code list. We group the codes into FRA's five main groups and their sub-groups, in plain English.
2026 (to August) · 2 derailments
2025 · 1 derailments
| Sub-group (2025-2026) | Derailments |
|---|---|
| Switches lined wrong, not locked or run through | 2 |
| Track geometry: wide gauge, misaligned or buckled track | 1 |
| Most common exact causes (FRA wording) | Derailments |
|---|---|
| Switch improperly lined | 2 |
| Wide gage (due to defective or missing spikes or other rail fasteners) | 1 |
Counts for 2025 and 2026 to date. The sub-groups sum only the top rows. A cause "under investigation" is updated when the railroad amends its report.
Railroads with the most derailments in Vermont
By the railroad that filed the main report. Large railroads run far more train-miles, so a higher count does not by itself mean a worse safety record.
| Railroad | 2026 (to Aug) | 2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Amtrak (National Railroad Passenger Corporation) | 1 | 1 |
| Green Mountain Railroad Corporation | 1 | - |
"-" = not in that year's top list.
Vermont derailments by county, 2025-2026
| County (as reported to FRA) | Derailments |
|---|---|
| Windham | 2 |
| Rutland | 1 |
Counties with big rail yards tend to top this list: 100% of the Vermont derailments on the map happened at a train speed of 10 mph or less.
Collisions and other train accidents in Vermont
Derailments are the largest group of rail equipment accidents. The same FRA reports also cover collisions, fires and trains hitting obstructions.
| Accident type (FRA) | 2026 (to Aug) | 2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Derailment | 2 | 1 |
| Fire or violent rupture | 2 | 0 |
| All rail equipment accidents | 4 | 1 |
Highway-rail crossing crashes appear here only when train or track damage passed the FRA threshold; most crossing crashes are reported on a separate form (FRA F 6180.57) and are not in this table.
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About this data
- Source: Federal Railroad Administration, Rail Equipment Accident/Incident Data (Form 54) on data.transportation.gov (readable view of the source dataset aqxq-n5hy). US government work, public domain. Cause groups: FRA train accident cause codes (Appendix C of the FRA reporting guide).
- What is counted: accidents with FRA accident type 01 (derailment) that caused damage above the FRA reporting threshold. Each accident is counted once by its FRA incident key, even when two or three railroads filed reports. Killed and injured are the accident totals; hazmat cars are added up across the railroads' reports.
- Lag: railroads report each month's accidents by the end of the following month and FRA publishes after that, so the data runs 2-3 months behind. The latest month can still rise as late reports arrive. This page re-checks FRA once a day.
- Map positions are the latitude and longitude the railroad entered on the report; a few may be approximate.
- Not included: accidents below the damage threshold, transit systems that do not report to FRA, and Canada. Canadian rail occurrence statistics are published by the Transportation Safety Board of Canada.