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  • Cow derails popular tourist train in Australian Outback

    10/19/2009 6:45:51 AM PDT · by Willie Green · 8 replies · 685+ views
    Taragana ^ | October 19th, 2009 | ???
    SYDNEY — One of Australia’s most popular tourist trains, The Ghan, derailed after hitting a cow in the Outback, train company officials said Monday. No passengers were hurt in the incident, which happened Sunday night near the small town of Kulgera in the Northern Territory, said Sophie Dent, spokeswoman for Great Southern Rail, which operates The Ghan. The train was on its 1,850-mile (2,979-kilometer) run between the Northern Territory capital of Darwin and the South Australia state capital of Adelaide when it slammed into the cow. The locomotive ran off the tracks, but there was no damage to the train,...