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Union Pacific Train Derailment Injures Two and Causes Hazmat Concern

By Pottroff & Karlin LLC | railroad news

(Benbrook, Texas – July 18, 2013)

The cause of a derailment in the far southwest greater Fort Worth, TX area was still under investigation late Thursday morning after two locomotives and seven cars of a Union Pacific freight train traveling from Tucson, AZ to Dallas, TX derailed at about 5:00 A.M., injuring two train crew members and causing panic that a car loaded with at least 30,000 pounds of ammonium nitrate was among the derailed cars.

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