Sabotage is indicated in Union Pacific "runaway."(Cozad, NE cutting apart of an empty coal train)(Rail Update)(Brief Article) From: Railway Age | Date: January 1, 1997 | COPYRIGHT 1997 Simmons-Boardman Publishing Corporation. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information) Copyright information

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 ...

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