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VID: runaway freight car slams into Utica station

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Old 1st August 2015, 11:35
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VID: runaway freight car slams into Utica station

VIDEO: a runaway freight car unlatched by a teen, slams into a locomotive and a train station building in Utica, USA.
No fatalities.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bama0f7N23o


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Old 3rd August 2015, 11:30
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I take it that American rolling stock doesn't have fail-safe brakes fitted? After the runaway accident last year with petroleum tanks that demolished a small town, you would think that the US would not be so cavalier with regards to safety.
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