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CHESTER, Pa. (AP) — An Amtrak train struck a piece of heavy equipment just south of Philadelphia on Sunday, causing a derailment that killed two Amtrak workers and sent more than 30 passengers to hospitals, authorities said.

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Authorities say the worker who died in a weekend accident at a St. Paul rail yard was a 43-year-old Wisconsin man.

BROWNSVILLE, Minn. (AP) — The Canadian Pacific Railroad says around 850 gallons of soybean oil leaked when six tanker cars derailed into the Mississippi River in southeastern Minnesota.

MOORHEAD, Minn. (AP) — One person has been killed in Moorhead after a train struck a vehicle on the tracks.

INTERNATIONAL FALLS, Minn. (AP) — A wooden railroad bridge near Minnesota's northern border has burned and collapsed, shutting a busy train route that connects the Pacific Coast with Chicago.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A BNSF Railway employee has died in a rail yard accident in northeast Minneapolis.

BLACKDUCK, Minn. (AP) — Investigators believe someone set the fire that burned a historic wooden bridge in Beltrami County.

Rochester,MN (KROC AM News ) -The government entities involved in a proposed high speed passenger train between Rochester and the Twin Cities are gearing up for the next step in the process.