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At least 10 million lost just in engine damage/destrudtion. add the 76 coal cars involved and it will be a pretty big number. Up has had a lot of derailments on the Jefferson City Sub, most of them big. One outside of St. Louis spilled coal into people's front yards, and nocked down a signal bridge as well as ground signals and a crossing. Another at Labadie, ten miles west from Pacific, which was carrying a special load behind the engine with a long freight behind it, derailed spilling mail, pepsi, dog food, automotive parts, and Campbell's Soup, as well as the special load.This one was in the middle of nowhere on a high fill above a creek valley. The car carying the special load derailed and drug for 3 miles until it caught on the switch off to UP's 11 largest customer destroying it, two more switches, and taking 5 signals with it. Last year, a broken rail at the same spot, derailed a coal train going onto the busy spur, and spilled coal off a high bridge, covering a road and filling the creek. Amazingly, no one was killed in any one of these accidents.
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