The Nation - News from Feb. 6, 1987
Investigators are checking an anonymous tip that a Conrail crewman involved in a fatal collision with an Amtrak passenger train may have thrown a television set into a nearby river after the accident, officials said. The National Transportation Safety Board asked local authorities to drag a portion of the Gunpowder River near where three Conrail locomotives and the Amtrak train collided east of Baltimore, Md., on Jan. 4, killing 16. The Conrail engineer, Ricky Gates, and brakeman, Edward Cromwell, have denied that they had been listening to a broadcast of a pro football game at the time of the crash.
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