(Source: Kankakee Daily Journal, March 18, 2019)
KANKAKEE, Ill. — Amtrak’s City of New Orleans, a train of two locomotives, one baggage car, 11 passenger cars and two sleeper cars, was carrying 198 passengers, an Amtrak crew of 17, two off-duty Amtrak employees and two off-duty Illinois Central Railroad employees when it struck a loaded flatbed truck on March 15, 1999. The tragic accident resulted in 11 deaths and 122 seriously injured.
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