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Billy R. Hall, Ernest L. Russ, and Mike D. Vinet

Locomotive engineers Billy R. Hall, 47, Ernest L. Russ, 43, and Mike D. Vinet, 39, were killed when Amtrak’s Sunset Limited train derailed on CSX’s Big Bayou Canot Bridge near Mobile, Ala., on September 22, 1993. All three Brothers belonged to BLE Division 18 in New...

Richard A. Marks

Locomotive engineer Richard A. Marks, 40 years old at the time of his death, was Local Chairman of BLE Division 537 in Fort Wayne, Ind. He was killed in the head-on collision of two Norfolk Southern trains and subsequent derailment near Knox, Ind., on September 17,...

Peter L. Sylvester

Locomotive engineer Peter L. Sylvester, 59 years old at the time of his death, was employed with Amtrak and was a member of Division 752 in Albany, N.Y. Shortly after Westbound Amtrak train 49 departed Rochester, N.Y. with engineer Sylvester at the throttle, an...