While looking for news of the freight train collision just now I found this from yesterday.....
Amtrak Trains Affected By Freight Train Derailment
POSTED: 7:54 am EDT May 18, 2004
UPDATED: 8:09 am EDT May 18, 2004
PITTSBURGH -- A train derailment is forcing hundreds of Amtrak passengers to change their route this morning.
More than 20 freight train cars left its tracks in North Huntingdon, Westmoreland County on Monday afternoon.
The derailment has blocked the CSX tracks and passengers on Amtrak's Capitol Limited line cannot travel by train between Pittsburgh and Washington D.C.
At about 4 a.m., a train pulled into Pittsburgh from Chicago and nearly 400 people were shuttled across the station onto buses.
Amtrak hopes to be back on schedule tonight.
http://www.thepittsburghchannel.com/news/3317295/detail.html
Here's the story on the freight train............
Trains Collide Head-on in North Texas
The Associated Press
Published: May 19, 2004
GUNTER, Texas (AP) - Two freight trains collided just outside this small north Texas town Wednesday, leaving rail cars in a mangled mess and causing multiple injuries, authorities said.
Grayson County Sheriff's Sgt. Pam McCurdy said that she didn't know how many people were injured, but knew that some of the injuries were severe. A medical helicopter was dispatched.
Joe Faust, a spokesman for Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp., said both of the trains belonged to the company.
Neither Faust nor McCurdy knew what caused the accident.
McCurdy said one of the trains derailed after the head-on collision. Television footage showed about 20 cars off the tracks.
Gunter is 50 miles north of Dallas.
AP-ES-05-19-04 1938EDT
http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGAX0VS2GUD.html