1 dead, others injured in Amtrak train crash on Hi-Line in Montana

[Bob]

1 dead, others injured in Amtrak train crash on Hi-Line in Montana

1 dead, others injured in Amtrak train crash on Hi-Line in Montana

One man is dead and multiple people are injured after an Amtrak passenger train hit a tractor near Bainville in Roosevelt County.

billingsgazette.com

One man is dead and multiple people are injured after an Amtrak passenger train hit a tractor near Bainville in Roosevelt County.

An Amtrak train carrying passengers collided with a John Deere tractor at mile marker 653 on Highway 2 shortly before 11 a.m., according to a press release from Roosevelt County's local emergency planning committee's Facebook page.

 

[Bob]

To be clear, this was a grade crossing accident with a tractor. The fatality was the tractor operator.

It sounds as if there were a lot of minor injuries on board the train, but none serious.

 

[bnsf971]

Interesting terminology for a derailment. "The cars lost contact with the tracks".

 

[Bob]

Interesting terminology for a derailment. "The cars lost contact with the tracks".

I don't know, looks like it's really in contact with the tracks to me, a bit too much in contact.

Joking aside, the derailment is interesting, as it looks like the locomotive stayed on the rails, but all of the cars derailed and leaned to one side. Broken rail? Debris under the train? Not sure what happened.

 

[bnsf971]

I don't know, looks like it's really in contact with the tracks to me, a bit too much in contact.

Joking aside, the derailment is interesting, as it looks like the locomotive stayed on the rails, but all of the cars derailed and leaned to one side. Broken rail? Debris under the train? Not sure what happened.

Very few farm tractors just go tooling down the road solo. This time of year, it could have been a cultivator or plow, depending on what the farmer farmed. A plow would likely have missed the engine, but got picked up under the first car, and, since plows themselves are heavy, thick, wedge-shaped steel, acted as derails for the wheels.