[Scan-DC] Re: VRE runaway locomotive

[al]

At 08:00 PM 10/10/2007, you wrote:
>The engine rolled from the train yard in Spotsylvania County and was
>eventually stopped just north of the Rappahannock River in Stafford.
>It was on tracks shared by both freight and passenger trains. It
>approached the Fredericksburg train station going about 10 miles per
>hour.
>
>VRE spokesman Mark Roeber says the public was not in harm's way and
>no other trains were in the way.
>
>Richard Rowland
>RichRowl at worldnet.att.net


  There's an article in today's (10/11/07) Wash Post about the incident:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/10/AR2007101002511.html

It notes the run-away car was brought under control after it slowed 
enough going up an incline.


al
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