This came up in the Springs police blotter and local reporting: http://gazette.com/woman-killed-aft...rain-cars-in-colorado-springs/article/1539098 Sounds just terrible for all involved.
I see lumber cars, and it looks like a lumber yard type setting. Could have been a business employee who was not familiar enough with the dangers of railroads?
The article says no word on whether an employee or not...however...OSHA is involved, and they sent employees home....so bets are high it's a fellow employee.
A lumber yard. So either a car moved/rolled slightly, or they were trying to do their own in-house switching?
The latest out for now is that the woman was a BNSF conductor and that the train was moving at the time of the accident. The FRA is now also involved in the investigation, and the normal caveats are given that not much is released while an investigation is in progress. I must be getting old - 42 is just too durned young to go.
Train was moving? Looks like that track is probably a private industry spur. If so, they must have been switching.
That'd be a good supposition. There's a number of medium industries right around there (aggregate, concrete castings and scrap metal) as well as a small storage area all right off the main. As a not related side note, also real close to the county jail.
I wish I knew what this is about. I aint about to subscribe to that new station in order to find out. Charlie
I don't know any of the details; only what's going around the rumor mill, but I heard that she was fatally injured after she was caught in between two knuckles coming together. A tragic loss. S
Nothing more publically released, either by the local news or UTU. One side note released was that there was a family tradition of rail work, as her grandfather is identified as having retired from BN as an engineer.