The 1987 Maryland train collision occurred at 1:30 pm on January 4, 1987, on Amtrak‘s Northeast Corridor main line. The site of the crash was in the Chase community in eastern Baltimore County, Maryland, about 18 miles (29 km) northeast of Baltimore. Amtrak train 94, the Colonial,  traveling north from Washington, D.C., to Boston, crashed into a set of Conrail locomotives running light (without freight cars), and which had fouled (entered) the mainline. Train 94’s speed at the time of the collision was estimated at about 108 miles per hour (174 km/h). Fourteen passengers on the Amtrak train were killed, as well as the Amtrak engineer and lounge car. With a total passenger load of about 600 people, there was a great deal of confusion after the collision. Witnesses and neighbors ran to the smoking train and helped remove injured and dazed passengers, even before the first emergency vehicles could arrive at the location.