MONAHANS, TX -- Two train conductors were injured in an overnight crash in a train yard in Monahans.
CBS7 is reporting Union Pacific crews are on scene investigating the cause of the crash.
According to the report, a train being operated by the two conductors ran into the back of a parked train. The parked train was unoccupied.
Work crews had to cut the two conductors out of the train. CBS7 reports the to conductors were taken to the hospital in Midland and are reported in stable condition.
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Yantis,
It will take you very little training (no pun intended) for you to become one of the media's true rail experts. First and only lesson, who runs the train? 99% of the media thinks it is the conductor but the conductor is never at the controls of the locomotive.
If the reporter is correct the cause of the accident is obvious. These two conductors are speeding through Monahans without an engineer on board to apply the brakes or blow the horn.
If there were only two conductors on board the article should read, "two passengers injured in runaway train wreck."
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