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I was told in work today one of our trains Q11608 killed a group of people in a pickup truck yesterday.
I was looking at the photo from the newspaper and it had engine # 233 with a truck crushed under it. I checked the computer and I didn't see it listed they must have swapped out the Locomotive consist for the accident investigation. The train will arrive about 8:00 am in our yard. Its a shocking and strange feeling when you are a part of it.
When I first heard of it, one of the guys said, " Did you hear about the train wreck? It was 116." I thought for a second, "Oh God I hope its not one of mine." And then thought, that's an inbound number. I send out outbound trains such as Q11310, Q42110. Q421 is the train # and the 10 is the day.
My Hart goes out to the families.
Stay away from the tracks and if you have to go near them look both ways!!!

The story in the OH news paper


http://libpub.dispatch.com/cgi-bin/documentv1?DBLIST=cd02&DOCNUM=39106&TERMV=274:5:405:5:553....


And some interesting technology on the Rail Road

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