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Another story, same situation... <br /> <br />LC <br /> <br />Train collision kills worker <br />(The Houston Chronicle posted the following article on its website on September 15.) <br /> <br />SHEPHERD, Texas -- Two Union Pacific trains collided and derailed north of Houston in Shepherd, killing one employee, forcing an overnight evacuation of hundreds of residents and canceling school this morning. <br /> <br />San Jacinto Constable Jerry Everitt said that by daybreak, the diesel fuel spill that sent residents fleeing to two schools had been cleaned up and residents were being allowed to go back home. <br /> <br />The Shepherd Independent School District, however, won't hold classes today because a cancelation announcement was made while residents were stuck in the school gyms. <br /> <br />Although Shepherd residents are now free to come and go, traffic from outside has been diverted around the town, where the wrecked railcars remain. Texas 150 is closed between FM 266 and U.S. 59, while drivers on State Loop 424 must take a detour at U.S. 59. <br /> <br />One Union Pacific train of two locomotives and 10 rail cars struck another train of two locomotives and three rail cars at 12:15 a.m., in downtown Shepherd, about 60 miles north of Houston, said Mark Davis, spokesman for Union-Pacific. <br /> <br />The first train was traveling on a straight track from Pine Bluff, Ark., to Houston when its locomotive struck the locomotive of the second train. <br /> <br />The second train was stopped on the north end of a side track, but its locomotive was sitting on the straight track. The first train had the right of way, Davis said. <br /> <br />The unidentified employee who died worked on the train on the side track. The second train services businesses in the Houston area. Union Pacific owns the tracks. <br /> <br />National Transportation Safety Board, Federal Railroad Administration and Union Pacific investigators were on the scene today. <br /> <br /> <br />
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