[Cindy]

UPDATE:

Note: Video included.

http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/national_world&id=8213118

“Amtrak-truck crash kills 2, injures 20 in Nevada”
Updated at 12:37 AM today
By Leslie Brinkley

SNIPPET: “EMERYVILLE, Calif. (KGO) — A fiery crash happened in rural Nevada after a semi plows into an Amtrak train. At least two people are dead and dozens injured. More than 200 people were on that train. Passengers on-board from Chicago arrived in Sacramento a little over an hour ago. They got off a bus and onto a train, bound for Emeryville.

Emeryville was the final destination for train No. 5, the California Zephyr, but then the unexpected happened Friday morning before that train even got to Reno.

Flames engulfed several passenger cars on the Amtrak train after a big rig truck struck the westbound California Zephyr around 11:30 a.m. at a crossing 60 miles east of Reno. Some passengers were trapped inside as smoke from the burning cars soared into the blue desert sky. There were 204 passengers and 14 crew members were on board the train going from Chicago to Emeryville and the crash happened without warning.”

[csvset]

Lots of pictures here, Reno Gazette-Journal, (link only, Gannett )

Amtrak train crash

From SFGate,

5 die, many hurt as semi hits Bay Area-bound train

[lewislynn]

Emeryville was the final destination for train No. 5, the California Zephyr,

It's sacrilege to call that thing the California Zephyr.

[Tribune7]

There were 204 passengers and 14 crew members were on board the train going from Chicago to Emeryville and the crash happened without warning.”

I don't want to be like a Democrat ghoul and use a tragedy to make a political point, but a train does not seem the most efficient way of getting 204 people from Chicago to California.