Train derails into Mississippi River in NE Iowa
By Associated Press
9:32 AM EDT,
July 9, 2008
GUTTENBERG, Iowa - Four locomotives pulling a freight train have derailed and fallen into the Mississippi River near Guttenberg in northeast Iowa. The Clayton County sheriff's office says the engines operated by the Iowa, Chicago & Eastern Railroad went off the tracks about 6 a.m. Wednesday.
Dispatcher Larry Crubaugh (CREW'-bah) says the derailment happened about 2 miles south of Guttenberg. He says the tracks run along a bluff beside the river and the train "apparently didn't stay on the bluff." Crubaugh says two engineers were taken to a hospital, but he had no other details.
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COMMENT: Such unhappy events can and should, with proper attention and investment, be reduced practically to zero on any modern train system.
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