Runaway Freight Train Car Kills Track Worker
COLORADO
A freight train car came loose and killed an employee doing track work as it raced 32 miles before it was stopped in a Denver rail yard, officials said.
The car broke away from a Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway work train near Castle Rock and hit grinder operator Thomas Durst, 36, near Sedalia, which is about five miles from Castle Rock, rail company spokeswoman Lena Kent said.
The car, a low-sided, open-topped car known as a gondola, was stopped near Burlington Northern Santa Fe’s Denver rail yard after it was diverted to an uphill track, Kent said.
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