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Sabotage is indicated in Union Pacific "runaway."(Cozad, NE cutting apart of an empty coal train)(Rail Update)(Brief Article)
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Railway Age
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January 1, 1997
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The evidence clearly points to sabotage, not equipment failure or mere vandalism, in the circumstances that resulted in the "run-away" of a Union Pacific train in western Nebraska early last month.
This was a distributed-power train made up of 125 cars with two locomotives on the head end and one unit at the rear as a pusher. The train was moving empty coal cars back to the Powder River Basin in central Wyoming.
After the train was cut in two at Cozad, Neb., the two lead units were pulling 69 cars, and the unmanned pusher unit was shoving 56 cars. With less horsepower powering the trailing segment it couldn't travel as fast as the leading segment, and the two parts of ...