At approximately 6:55 a.m. CDT, April 17, a coal train, C-BTMCNMO-26, struck the rear of unit train, UBRGCRI5-12 at MP 447.3 and two employees on the coal train were fatally injured. The incident occurred on the Creston Subdivision at McPherson, Iowa. The crew on the coal train based in Creston, Iowa, included Thomas Anderson, a 48-year-old locomotive engineer with 13 years of service and Patricia Hyatt, a 48-year–old-conductor with six years of service.

Their eastbound coal train was traveling 22 mph when it collided with the rear of an eastbound maintenance unit train that was stopped on Main Track 2. The coal train was operating under a signal indication that required restricted speed.

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Photographed by Unknown, April 25, 2011.
Added to the photo archive by George Kenson, April 27, 2011.
Railroad: BNSF.

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