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Re: Breaking NEWS! AT least 3 killed in MetroLink Crash! |
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Posted by Steve Hoskins on Wed Jan 26 14:49:00 2005, in response to Re: Breaking NEWS! AT least 3 killed in MetroLink Crash!, posted by Wayne-MrSlantR40 on Wed Jan 26 13:38:11 2005. Metrolink does NOT have "DM's".They also do not have an engine 956...so it must have been 856. The trains were: 625-133-197-886 623-148-177-856 856 is an F59PH 886 is an F59PHI 623-625 are car cars (like what NJ Transit uses...diesel pushing) 133-148 are 1992 Bombardier coach trailers 177 is a 1996 Bombardier coach trailer 197 is a 2002 Bombardier coach trailer What all the news reports are saying now is that the southbound Metrolink hit the car on the crossing, derailed, picked the switch into the siding where the UP train was parked, everything jumped/flipped and blocked the northbound main right at the moment the northbound train was coming by, sending it into oblivion. It knocked down an overhead signal bridge which shreded car 148. And the union Pacific engine was SD70M 4323, parked on a siding with a trainload of repair materials for a washout in Ventura County. News reports are asying, and they showed fireman pulling bodies out of the cab...that both UP crewmen are among the fatalities. Nobody has said anything, but from the looks of Metrolink cab car 625, the Metrolink engineer didn't survive either. |
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