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To: Pyro7480
From CBS2 Chicago:

Two trains crashed on the city's South Side late Friday morning, leaving an Amtrak locomotive lying on top of a freight car. The Amtrak cars did not derail, but the locomotive of the Amtrak train was severely damaged at 48th Street and Shields Avenue. Information about injuries and other details were not immediately available.

2 posted on 11/30/2007 10:04:46 AM PST by Pyro7480 ("Jesu, Jesu, Jesu, esto mihi Jesus" -St. Ralph Sherwin's last words at Tyburn)
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update:

http://cbs2chicago.com/breakingnewsalerts/freight.train.amtrak.2.599603.html

Serious injuries are reported in a crash on the city’s South Side involving an Amtrak train and a freight train.

The Amtrak trail struck the rear of the parked freight train around 11:32 a.m. at 48th Street and Shields Avenue, Fire Department spokeswoman Eve Rodriguez said.

Rodriguez said there are about 150 passengers on board and confirmed a report that a conductor is pinned inside.


8 posted on 11/30/2007 10:11:49 AM PST by RDTF ("Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear". Mark Twain)
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To: Pyro7480

oh no I have 2 brother n laws who work for amtrak that go that route


46 posted on 11/30/2007 5:39:29 PM PST by angelcindy (Where's the Fence?????)
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