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West Vienna, Illinois derailment

Discussion about the Union Pacific operations past and present. Official site can be found here: UPRR.COM.

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  by Burner
 
Those were not DPU's.


The engineer suffered a crushed leg, and the conductor has 2 crushed legs, several broken ribs, and is also having heart problems.

  by CarterB
 
Pardon my ignorance, but what's a DPU?

  by rwallace2fan1
 
CarterB wrote:Pardon my ignorance, but what's a DPU?
distributed power units.......the engines located at the rear of a train, as in coal trains. UP runs very few 2x2's so I would say that those are leaders.

  by Milwaukee_F40C
 
Looks like 6715 was leading and the cab is smashed in. Crushed legs sound pretty bad. Hope they pull through that.
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