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TRAIN DERAILMENT 28APR DALLAS [DIFFERENT]

TRAIN DERAILMENT

(DALLAS, April 28) -- Investigators with Union Pacific are looking into what caused a train to derail in Dallas. The train jumped the tracks in south Dallas overnight. Some of the cars were carrying flammable liquids. One car was leaking but it has been contained. As of early Wednesday morning, crews were working to pull the derailed cars out of a ditch. Investigators believe something may have been wrong with the track.

'Modern-Day Slavery' Prompts Rescue Efforts
Groups Target Abuse of Foreign Maids, Nannies
By Lena H. Sun
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, May 3, 2004; Page A01

Alexandra Santacruz pressed up to the kitchen window on a recent spring night and peered anxiously down the street. She had done everything she could to get ready, tying her belongings neatly into four plastic bags and hiding them in the trash bin outside the Falls Church townhouse.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61457-2004May2.html?referrer%3Demail

Bias Against Muslims Up 70%
Radio Talk Shows, Iraq War Among Reasons, Study Finds
By Mary Beth Sheridan
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, May 3, 2004; Page A12

Muslims in the United States experienced more than 1,000 incidents of alleged harassment, violence and discriminatory treatment in 2003, a jump of 70 percent over the previous year, according to a report to be released today by a major Islamic advocacy group.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61488-2004May2.html?referrer=email

While searching for more information about the person who died yesterday of hantavirus, I found this article about a train derailment.

Was this train derailment reported earlier? Don't recall reading it.

Bear Night Patrol
Author: Adam Hudson
Date: 4/29/04

Crews are working to ward off bears attracted to spilled corn from last week's train derailment.

Wind River Bear Institute specialists are conducting night patrols to keep bears away as crews continue to clean up hundreds of tons of spilled corn just east of Essex.

Burlington Northern Santa Fe contracted the institute after last Tuesday in which a freight train carrying corn from Iowa to Washington derailed and 29 cars emptied their contents.
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...all of the derailed cars have been taken to Shelby to be scrapped. The cause of the derailment is still under investigation.

http://www.keci.com/index3.cfm?sec=news&detail=yes&StoryID=7359&CFID=983585&CFTOKEN=79865538

Am I the only one that remembers the track shoes that were stolen from a train company?

When this thread was new, several months ago, it was posted.

As I recall, it was clumps of iron that bolted to the tracks and would stop the train.

Maybe partial memory isn't so handy after all...LOL