Derailment - City of New Orleans
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Derailment: Monday, March 15, 1999
Amtrak City of New Orleans
www.trainweb.com/news/1999c16a.html
The Amtrak City of New Orleans derailed between 9:45 p.m. and 10:00 p.m. (Central Standard Time)
on Monday evening, March 15, 1999, after it struck a flatbed tractor trailer truck loaded with
steel that was blocking a railroad crossing about 50 miles south of Chicago.
"The engineer said he saw the lights flashing, he saw the barriers down, and then he saw
the truck stop and try to get around it,"
said Amtrak's Chairman, Wisconsin Governor Tommy Thompson.
The full story can be read in the March 17, 1999, Philadelphia Inquirer Online at:
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Washington Post http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/digest/nat001.htm
Chicago Tribune - Evidence At Odds With Eyewitness Account
http://chicagotribune.com/news/metro/chicago/article/0,1051,ART-25353,00.html
Thanks goes to
Mike Kimura, Jim Russell, Tom Reiser and Stan Feldman
(www.trainweb.com/railpix)
for bringing a number of the above online articles to my attention.
Here is the consist of Amtrak train #59 that was wrecked at Bourbonnaise, IL on 15 March.
807 P40
829 P40
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1116 baggage
39004 dormitory
32035 sleeper (car line 5900)
38020 diner
31034 coach-baggage
31540 coach-smoker
33009 lounge
34089 coach
35001 snack bar-coach -- deadhead
31016 coach -- deadhead
32031 sleeper -- (car line 5901)
32046 sleeper -- deadhead
38032 diner -- deadhead
32058 sleeper -- deadhead
Mike
MICHAEL M. PALMIERI -- New Orleans, Louisiana
visit the LOUISIANA RAIL SITE @ http://lrs.railspot.com -- updated 25 October 1998
and MEXICAN RAILWAYS @ http://mexican.railspot.com -- updated 29 November 1998
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