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News Wire: Grade-crossing collision kills driver, derails UP train in Southern Illinois

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Posted by Brian Schmidt on Monday, June 17, 2019 12:47 PM

FULTS, Ill. — A Union Pacific train hit a tractor at a grade crossing in a rural area about 40 miles south of St. Louis on Friday evening, killing the driver of the tractor and derailing 30 cars of the train. The Republic-Times newspaper report...

http://trn.trains.com/news/news-wire/2019/06/15-grade-crossing-collision-kills-driver-derails-up-train-in-southern-illinois

Brian Schmidt, Editor, Classic Trains magazine

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