(Source: Los Angeles Times, December 16, 2015)
LOS ANGELES — The new Metrolink passenger cars that derailed in a crash near Oxnard earlier this year were equipped with flawed parts that were supposed to help keep trains on the track in an accident, according to a confidential report by the commuter railroad. Two couplers on passenger cars and the cow-catcher of a cab car at the front of the train broke in the Feb. 24, 2015, collision with a heavy-duty pickup truck that was on the tracks at a grade crossing near Oxnard, Calif. Thirty-one passengers and two crew members were hurt. The locomotive engineer, Glenn W. Steele, later died of his injuries. Brother Steele, 62, was a member of Division 20 in Los Angeles.
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