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From the El Paso Times <br />http://www.borderlandnews.com/updates/0226-derail.shtml <br /> <br />Borderland Thursday, February 26, 2004 <br /> <br /><font face="Century Gothic"><b>Train derails in El Paso's Lower Valley</b></font id="Century Gothic"> <br /> <br />Victor Calzada / El Paso Times <br /> <br />Several cars of a Union Pacific freight train could be seen sprawled along the tracks near Alameda and Ivey streets in El Paso's Lower Valley Thursday. <br />By Gustavo Reveles Acosta <br />El Paso Times <br /> <br />A Thursday-morning Union Pacific derailment in the Lower Valley - the third train accident with El Paso ties in six days - left a pile of 26 freight cars in the backyard of a neighbor and knocked out power to businesses and homes around the area for several hours. <br /> <br />Officials still don't know what caused the train to derail near the corner of Ives and Kathy streets at about 6 a.m. The Dallas-bound train had only two passengers and no injuries were reported. <br /> <br />Although some of the cargo was hazardous, the cars involved in the accident contained dry goods, a Union Pacific spokesman said. <br /> <br />Celia Morales was woken up by a loud bang behind her house, but it wasn't until sunrise that she saw a mound of freight containers piled up like toy building blocks in her backyard. <br /> <br /> <br />
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