rear-ended at Jungshahi by a goods train; 24 people killed and 43 injured. May 21 – United States – Piqua, Ohio: a seventeen-car westbound troop train, travelling on the Pennsylvania Railroad line, derails at high speed. Eight cars plunge down a embankment, injuring 24 of the 400 soldiers on board; poor track maintenance due to wartime personnel shortages is blamed. June 13 – Italy – At Baschi, near Orvieto on the line from Florence to Rome, the driver of a freight train including 15 tank cars of gasoline misinterprets a hand signal and proceeds, colliding head-on with a passenger train with many Italian and some British soldiers aboard. The resulting fire is so devastating that the number of dead can only be estimated, at about 70; 100 people are taken to hospital with injuries. June 15 – United States – Near Milton, Pennsylvania: The Buffalo-bound Pennsylvania Railroad Dominion Express derails, killing some 18 aboard. Wreck crews recover the bodies of 14 passengers and two crew five hours after the accident, which also injures at least 27 others seriously enough for hospitalization. July 13 – Germany – Weingarten: -Train wreck carrying soldiers of 65th Infantry Regiment/20th Infantry Division[Train was sabotaged by a German officer named August Lindenmeyer (Arrested).] U.S.loses: 6 killed July 16 – Germany – Aßling: A US Army train carrying tanks runs into a passenger train which had stalled due to an engine breakdown after the American signalman tells the freight train to proceed despite the track still being occupied. About 110 German POWs are killed as the mostly wooden coaches of the passenger train are destroyed. July 21 – United Kingdom – A London Midland and Scottish Railway express passenger train overruns signals and collides with a freight train that is shunting at , Dumfriesshire. Two people are killed and 31 are injured. July 27 – France – At Saint-Fons, near Lyon, a passenger train and a munitions train collide, igniting not only the wreckage but also the local gas works. Different sources say 4 people are killed and 27 injured, or "numerous passengers" killed, or about 150 people killed. August 9 – United States – Michigan train wreck: The first section of the Great Northern's Empire Builder is stopped by a hot box at Michigan City, North Dakota. The crew does not protect the rear, and the second section plows into it; 34 are killed and about