( ) -q-21- UNDATED (Correspondent Jeremy House) “the parked railcars.” Dispatching errors and the failure of two backup systems allowed a Union Pacific train to slam into 74 railcars that had been parked on a side track for nine months in Southern California in 2022. [CutID: <Cuts> UNION-PACIFIC-CRASH-house-q-FRIam.mp3 Time: 21s Title: UNION-PACIFIC-CRASH-house-q-FRIam Out-cue: the parked […]
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Investigators say dispatching errors led to deadly Union Pacific train crash
( ) -q-21- UNDATED (Correspondent Jeremy House) “the parked railcars.”
Dispatching errors and the failure of two backup systems allowed a Union Pacific train to slam into 74 railcars that had been parked on a side track for nine months in Southern California in 2022.
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TAG: Correspondent Jeremy House reporting. One dispatcher even overruled the train crew who said they had been told by a colleague that cars were still parked on that siding.
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VERBATIM: That’s according to a National Transportation Safety Board report detailing what caused the crash in the desert near the Salton Sea. An engineer and a conductor died in the accident. Investigators determined that mistakes made by dispatchers at the railroad’s headquarters in Omaha, Nebraska, led to the train being routed directly into the parked railcars.