Published: Sunday, June 24, 2012, 2:01 p.m.
3 people missing after trains collide in Oklahoma
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GOODWELL, Okla. -- Three Union Pacific Railroad crewmembers are missing after two freight trains collided in the Oklahoma Panhandle.
Union Pacific spokeswoman Raquel Espinoza says an eastbound train and a westbound train crashed about 10:08 a.m. Sunday near Goodwell, which is near the Texas border. Espinoza says a two-person crew was aboard each train, and officials are unable to account for two engineers and a conductor.
She says the other conductor appears to be uninjured.
Espinoza says two locomotives on the westbound train and a locomotive on the eastbound train caught fire after the collision. One train was carrying a resin solution, but Espinoza says that load wasn't on fire and is being doused with water as a precaution.
Texas County Emergency Management Director Harold Tyson says firefighters are battling the blaze.
Union Pacific spokeswoman Raquel Espinoza says an eastbound train and a westbound train crashed about 10:08 a.m. Sunday near Goodwell, which is near the Texas border. Espinoza says a two-person crew was aboard each train, and officials are unable to account for two engineers and a conductor.
She says the other conductor appears to be uninjured.
Espinoza says two locomotives on the westbound train and a locomotive on the eastbound train caught fire after the collision. One train was carrying a resin solution, but Espinoza says that load wasn't on fire and is being doused with water as a precaution.
Texas County Emergency Management Director Harold Tyson says firefighters are battling the blaze.
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