Both involved "push-pull" trains, which have locomotives that can either push or pull the train, making it unnecessary for the train to turn around.
Service was trimmed on many lines during the last three years, but most of those changes involved trains operating during the midday, evenings or weekends.
All four incidents involved slow-moving trains, and no injuries resulted.
The 1977 crash itself involved trains from two lines.
This will involve new trains as well as new signalling, increasing the line's capacity by some 24% and reducing journey times by one fifth.
On 14 August 1929 there was a collision involved electric trains.
Nearly all the ingredients are in place, and they all point toward an answer that involves trains, buses or some combination of the two.
Chases involving buses, trucks, snowmobiles, trains, tanks, and virtually every other type of vehicle (with or without wheels) have appeared at some point.
Last June, during a meeting with NBC executives to discuss prospective projects, he said that someone mentioned a script involving trains.
More than half of the crashes involved trains (55%), and 89% of the accidents occurred in urban areas.