(Source: Railway Track & Structures, April 21, 2020)
NEW YORK — Yesterday morning did not start well for a BNSF crew piloting a freight train along the banks of the Mississippi River in East Dubuque, IA. Rolling through this scenic area, the crew spotted a boulder on the track ahead and hit it, derailing the locomotive and around 12 cars, several of them in the river, according to a report by the Telegraph Herald. Fortunately, the crew was not injured.
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