Published on Wittenburg Door (http://www.wittenburgdoor.com)
Runaw–uh, Walkaway Train
By Joe Bob Briggs
Created 05/22/2008 - 23:24

A 47-car freight train left Toledo while no one was aboard
and traveled 70 miles on its own. CSX engineers chased it with an engine and attached the engine to the rear of the train to slow it to ten miles per hour near Kenton, Ohio, so that engineer Jon Hosfeld could jump on and stop it. Amtrak passengers, still waiting for their Toledo connections, asked that the runaway train be added to the daily Amtrak schedule, preferably with no humans attached.


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