{"id":17260,"date":"2012-07-06T06:00:26","date_gmt":"2012-07-06T06:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/utu.org\/?p=17260"},"modified":"2012-07-06T06:00:26","modified_gmt":"2012-07-06T06:00:26","slug":"illinois-derailment-turns-tragic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.smart-union.org\/illinois-derailment-turns-tragic\/","title":{"rendered":"Illinois derailment turns tragic","gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"text"}]},"content":{"rendered":"
GLENVIEW, Ill. — Two bodies\u00a0have been found under a collapsed railroad bridge here following the July 4 derailment of a 138-car Union Pacific coal train. The dead were in a a vehicle buried under the bridge wreckage. Authorities said more bodies of motorists could be found.<\/p>\n
Glenview is a suburb of Chicago.<\/p>\n
Union Pacific said extreme heat may have caused the rails to expand, leading to the derailment. Thirty-one of the loaded coal cars were derailed.<\/p>\n
The Federal Railroad Administration is investigating. The train was enroute from the Powder River Basin in Wyoming to an electric utility in Milwaukee.<\/p>\n
The Chicago Tribune<\/em> quoted a UP spokesperson that the 86-foot-long bridge was not designed to carry the cumulative load of the 31 derailed coal cars that piled onto the bridge at once.<\/p>\n The newspaper also quoted the UP spokesperson that railroad inspectors and monitoring equipment were on the tracks prior to the accident checking for track-gauge abnormalities, which is standard procedure twice a day during extreme heat or cold. A \u201cslow order\u201d was in effect for the train, and UP said a locomotive event recorder indicated the train was obeying the “slow order” prior to the derailment.<\/p>\n","protected":false,"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"html"}]},"excerpt":{"rendered":" GLENVIEW, Ill. — Two bodies\u00a0have been found under a collapsed railroad bridge here following the July 4 derailment of a 138-car Union Pacific coal train. The dead were in a a vehicle buried under the bridge wreckage. Authorities said more bodies of motorists could be found. Glenview is a suburb of Chicago. Union Pacific said […]<\/p>\n","protected":false,"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"html"}]},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9,18],"tags":[1247,1649,1650,185],"member_types":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n