(Source: www.nwitimes.com, May 11, 2016)
HAMMOND, Ind. — Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad Co. recently paid $72,500 in damages for wildfires sparked by its trains in March 2012 at Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore. The federal government alleged in a civil lawsuit filed in March 2014 that two Indiana Harbor Belt locomotives ejected hot cinders and ignited fires as they passed through western portions of the national park March 10, 2012. The fires burned habitat for the endangered Karner blue butterfly and destroyed experimental data on the insects.
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