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Massive head on collision in Texas....

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Massive head on collision in Texas....
Posted by Modelcar on Thursday, May 20, 2004 7:44 AM
What are the details of what happened...Just saw an aerial view and loaded hopper cars were sandwiched sideways together like it was a pretty hard hit....Don't know about injuries or worse yet...[:0]

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Posted by edblysard on Thursday, May 20, 2004 7:49 AM
At least one death so far, one of the trains was a rock train/ballast train, loaded.
If you see the tapes again, look at the locomotive laying on its side, that thing is completly destroyed, mangles to the point it dosnt look like a locomotive, the cooling fans are all you can reconize...

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Posted by Modelcar on Thursday, May 20, 2004 7:58 AM
....I did get a glance at the locomotives and it was very brief but could see it was a massive destruction.

Quentin

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