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'This is our community': Montana farm communities mobilize to help train wreck victims [View all]
People work at the scene of an Amtrak train derailment on Saturday, Sept. 25, 2021, in north-central Montana, after multiple people were injured when the train that runs between Seattle and Chicago derailed.
CHESTER, Mont. — Trevor Fossen was running late for a wedding Saturday afternoon when he turned onto a dusty, gravel road in rural Montana as a westbound train approached the crossing in front of him.
The train never made it to the crossing. The next thing Fossen saw was a wall of dust fill the sky.
“I started looking at that, wondering what it was, and then I saw the train had tipped over and derailed,” said Fossen, a 29-year-old farmer.
It was an Amtrak Empire Builder en route from Chicago to Seattle that had derailed, killing three people and injuring dozens of others. Investigators still don’t know what caused the crash.
CHESTER, Mont. — Trevor Fossen was running late for a wedding Saturday afternoon when he turned onto a dusty, gravel road in rural Montana as a westbound train approached the crossing in front of him.
The train never made it to the crossing. The next thing Fossen saw was a wall of dust fill the sky.
“I started looking at that, wondering what it was, and then I saw the train had tipped over and derailed,” said Fossen, a 29-year-old farmer.
It was an Amtrak Empire Builder en route from Chicago to Seattle that had derailed, killing three people and injuring dozens of others. Investigators still don’t know what caused the crash.
https://www.greatfallstribune.com/story/news/2021/09/28/train-derailment-montana-communities-mobilize-help-amtrak-crash-victims/5904570001/
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