(The following article was posted on Chicago television station ABC 7’s website on February 16.)
CHICAGO — A freight train derails in the south suburbs and scatters a load of vans. The Union Pacific train collided with a stopped freight train in South Holland.
The impact caused the stopped freight train to roll over. The new vans it was carrying ended up on the side of tracks.
Firefighters were called in to free the train engineer, who was trapped in the locomotive for about half an hour. The engineer was not injured.