- May - The Metrolink 91 Line opens for service between Los Angeles and Riverside, California .
- May 2 - An eastbound Canadian National train collides with a Trailer near Firmdale , Manitoba , Canada ; about 20 cars carrying plastic pellets, Benzene , Glycol and Hexane catch fire, forcing the evacuation of nearly 200 local residents.
- May 10 - The Potters Bar Rail Crash occurs at Potters Bar , north of London , England , when a northbound Passenger Train derails at high speed, killing seven and seriously injuring another eleven.
- Some of the events listed here were translated from 2003 dans les chemins de fer , the equivalent French-language Wikipedia article.
- Colin Churcher's Railway Pages ( 2005 .
- Dakota, Minnesota and Eastern Railroad ( 2005 .
- General Motors Electro-Motive Division ( 2005 .
- General Motors Electro-Motive Division ( 2005 .
- (May 2002 ), Iowa Interstate operates first coal train to Cedar Rapids, ''Trains Magazine'', p. 22.
- Reh, Vincent (February 2002 ), Muskingum Electric Railroad just about done, ''Trains Magazine'', p. 22-23.
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