Crew Actions Tied to Fatal Train Crash
A crew reportedly failed to set the brakes properly on an unmanned train that rolled nine miles and slammed into a westbound freight train, killing two locomotive engineers.
State investigators said a two-member Union Pacific crew told them they left the train of four locomotives at a side track Wednesday night because three of the four engines had no fuel, the Dallas Morning News reported Saturday.
“The crew set the hand brake on the locomotive they were driving, but not on the other three,” Texas Railroad Commission spokesman Phil Wilson told the paper.
Federal officials, however, said they were not ready to assign blame for the accident.
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