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Table 1.

Derailment information for braking model validation analyses

Incident date	Location	Train type	Speed (mph)	No. cars ahead of POD	No. leading locos	Avg. car weight (kips)	Grade (%)
6/19/2009	Cherry Valley, IL	Mixed freight train	36	60	2	264	−0.26
4/30/2014	Lynchburg, VA	Loaded unit oil train	24	71	2	269	−0.10
3/10/2017	Graettinger, IA	Loaded unit ethanol train	28	80	1	254	0.20
2/16/2015	Mount Carbon, WV	Loaded unit oil train	33	3	2	272	−0.05
9/19/2015	Lesterville, SD	Loaded unit ethanol train	10	97	1	257	0.00
8/2/2017	Hyndman, PA	Mixed freight train	31	32	5	111	−1.43
8/12/2019	Carey, OH	Loaded unit sand train	23	9	2	286	−0.29
2/8/2020	Sesser, IL	Loaded unit coal train	43	99	2	286	0.18

Incident date	Location	Train type	Speed (mph)	No. cars ahead of POD	No. leading locos	Avg. car weight (kips)	Grade (%)
6/19/2009	Cherry Valley, IL	Mixed freight train	36	60	2	264	−0.26
4/30/2014	Lynchburg, VA	Loaded unit oil train	24	71	2	269	−0.10
3/10/2017	Graettinger, IA	Loaded unit ethanol train	28	80	1	254	0.20
2/16/2015	Mount Carbon, WV	Loaded unit oil train	33	3	2	272	−0.05
9/19/2015	Lesterville, SD	Loaded unit ethanol train	10	97	1	257	0.00
8/2/2017	Hyndman, PA	Mixed freight train	31	32	5	111	−1.43
8/12/2019	Carey, OH	Loaded unit sand train	23	9	2	286	−0.29
2/8/2020	Sesser, IL	Loaded unit coal train	43	99	2	286	0.18

Source: Authors’ own work