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locco 1st August 2015 11:35

VID: runaway freight car slams into Utica station
 
VIDEO: a runaway freight car unlatched by a teen, slams into a locomotive and a train station building in Utica, USA.
No fatalities.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bama0f7N23o

Tony 3rd August 2015 11:30

I take it that American rolling stock doesn't have fail-safe brakes fitted? After the runaway accident last year with petroleum tanks that demolished a small town, you would think that the US would not be so cavalier with regards to safety.


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