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To: Ish who wrote (3312)	5/15/2001 10:21:31 PM
From: sandintoes	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4692

Boo Hoo...no you've hurt my feelings...Like these wrinkles aren't bad enough. By the way, I found this article on the train..no they have found out there was no engineer! That's even worse! Runaway Train Brought to a Halt Tuesday, May 15, 2001 KENTON, Ohio — A runaway freight train carrying hazardous materials rolled for miles through Ohio on Tuesday at speeds close to 50 mph with no one aboard before a railroad official jumped onto the locomotive and brought it to a stop. The CSX train of about 40 cars carried some kind of combustible material, the Hancock County Sheriff's Department said. Authorities could not identify the material. "It would have been a disaster if it would've derailed in town," said Sgt. Major Mike Blair of the Wood County sheriff's office in Bowling Green, a city of about 29,600 people where the train rolled through. The sheriff's department initially said the train engineer had apparently suffered a heart attack. However, Gerlene Draper, a Kenton police dispatcher, said no one was aboard. She said the train had stopped somewhere and then started rolling after its brakes apparently failed. She said the train was coming from Toledo, but she did not know where it was when it started rolling. Patrol cars raced ahead of the train to block crossings and deputies tried to peer inside the locomotive as it lumbered through at least two northwestern Ohio counties, passing through farm fields, several villages and the cities of Bowling Green and Finlay. It also ran parallel to Interstate 75 at times. At one point the train was clocked at 46 mph. "CSX brought a catch engine in behind the train, and hooked it on the back of the train to slow it down," said Hardin County sheriff's Sgt. Dennis Alexander. Then a CSX official ran alongside the train, grabbed a railing on the locomotive, pulled himself up and stopped it just southeast of Kenton. Authorities had tried to derail the train once near Findlay, where the train rolled past houses and factories, passing through back yards and within 50 feet of some homes. There were no evacuations in the city of about 40,000. "We were prepared for it, but we didn't need to," Hancock County Chief Deputy Doug Wilcox said.