NATION IN BRIEF : MARYLAND : Final Claim Settled in Fatal Train Wreck
Conrail agreed to pay $5.5 million in the last of about 370 court claims stemming from a fiery Amtrak-Conrail train wreck that killed 16 people near Baltimore in 1987. Attorneys for Susan Schweitzer, 45, of New York, said the settlement came just before selection of a jury to hear the civil damage trial in Baltimore. The crash occurred Jan. 4, 1987, when three Conrail locomotives ran through a switch and into the path of an Amtrak train. Conrail engineer Ricky L. Gates later admitted that he and brakeman Edward Cromwell had smoked marijuana just before the crash.
Start your day right
Sign up for Essential California for news, features and recommendations from the L.A. Times and beyond in your inbox six days a week.
You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times.
