The State - News from March 5, 1989

A slide in the rain-soaked Feather River Canyon rumbled down on a 93-car Union Pacific freight train, derailing nine cars and knocking one into the Feather River, an official said. No one was injured in the incident and the nine derailed cars were empty, a railroad spokesman said. The slide occurred near Camp Rogers between Oroville and Keddie, he said. “The rain mixed with the snow and caused a slide,” Union Pacific spokesman John Bromley in Los Angeles said. “The slide hit the center of the train but the cars involved were all empty. Only one car went into the river.”