The
1987 Maryland train collision occurred at 1:30 pm on January 4, 1987, on
Amtrak's
Northeast Corridor main line in the
Chase community in eastern
Baltimore County, Maryland,
United States, at Gunpow
Interlocking, about northeast of
Baltimore. Amtrak train 94, the
Colonial (now part of the
Northeast Regional, from
Washington, D.C., to
Boston), crashed into a set of
Conrail locomotives running lite, and which had fouled the mainline. Train 94's speed at the time of the collision was estimated at about . Fourteen passengers on the Amtrak train were killed, as well as the Amtrak engineer and lounge car attendant.