One UP freight train hits another in South Texas
(The Associated Press circulated the following on November 5, 2009.)
PLEASANTON, Texas — A conductor suffered minor injuries after jumping from one Union Pacific freight train before it struck another in South Texas.
UP spokeswoman Raquel Espinoza-Williams said Thursday that the line in Atascosa County reopened and cleanup should be done by the end of the week. Eight cars derailed.
Espinoza-Williams told The Associated Press that traffic resumed Wednesday night in an area 20 miles from Pleasanton.
Espinoza-Williams says the investigation continues into how around 1 a.m. Wednesday a train hauling grain hit the rear of an unoccupied rock-hauling train on a side track.
The conductor on the grain train was treated for cuts and bruises.
Espinoza-Williams says six cars derailed from the grain train, bound from San Antonio to Corpus Christi, spilling soybeans. The rock-hauling train, with two cars derailing, originated in New Braunfels.
Friday, November 06, 2009
