“I didn’t want to go back and look at the accident, because I didn’t want to see what happened. I didn’t want to see the after affects,” says Glenn Thompson, retired Union Pacific Railroad conductor.
Glenn Thompson is a retired conductor that worked for Union Pacific for 39 years. During his time with the railroad, his locomotive hit a Simplot truck carrying diesel, while the train was traveling at a speed of 69 miles per hour and the man in the truck was killed.
(Thompson is a member of SMART Transportation Division Local 265 at Pocatello, Idaho.)
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