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Amtrak #3 accident 4/13?
Amtrak #3 accident 4/13?
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eolafan
Member since
December 2001
From: Aurora, IL
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Amtrak #3 accident 4/13?
Posted by
eolafan
on Sunday, April 13, 2003 6:40 PM
I was trackside today and heard on my scanner that Amtrak #3 (westbound Chief) struck something near Downers Grove, IL at about 3:30 pm today. I was at the Eola yards and asked some BNSF personnel who said the lead Genesis unit had hit a rubber grade crossing "mat" that had become raised and that they were in Naperville station and were going to set out the lead unit near the Nasibsco plant on a siding...some of us drove to that spot but no unit, then #3 came by with only three of it's four units but still no sign of the original lead unit. Anybody hear where they set it out?
Eolafan (a.k.a. Jim)
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David3
Member since
April 2002
From: Joliet, Illinois
256 posts
Posted by
David3
on Monday, April 14, 2003 6:42 AM
I heard that it crashed too but I do not know what they did with the lead locomotive.
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