Coal Train Derails, Killing Its Conductor
From Times Wire Reports
A fully loaded coal train derailed in Scottsbluff, killing the conductor and creating a pile of debris 20 feet high.
The coal train was believed to have collided with a switch engine.
“Why that occurred, we don’t know,” said Steve Forsberg, spokesman for the train’s operator, Burlington Northern Santa Fe. “Obviously they should not have been in the same place at the same time.”
Two engines and about 20 cars went off the tracks.
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