(Canwest News Service circulated the following on May 23, 2010.)
TORONTO — It was a deadly weekend for train No. 63.
The Amtrak train struck two people within a space of roughly nine hours, including a man in Toronto, who was killed on Saturday.
Police say a man was walking on the tracks in Toronto, near Lake Shore Boulevard and Dunn Avenue, when he was hit and killed in the early morning.
The incident happened at about 12:30 a.m., as the train was being moved to a maintenance station in the Mimico area, said Amtrak spokeswoman Tracy Connell.
“A Canadian crew was operating the train at that time,” she said. “There were no passengers on board.”
About nine hours earlier, as the train made its way from New York City to Toronto, it had struck a woman on the Niagara Bridge in Buffalo. She also died, Ms. Connell said, but officials were still trying to determine the cause of death.
The train, which makes regular trips between the two cities, was delayed by about three hours, Ms. Connell said.
Media reports in Buffalo said the victim was a Native American woman in her 30s.