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Texas BNSF freights crash, 3 presumed dead in blaze, one jumps free
ONE train man was injured and three are missing and presumed dead, after two Burlington Northern Santa Fe (BNSF) intermodal freight trains collided head on near the northern Texas town of Panhandle (pop 2,452).
The two trains were carrying intermodal cargo on the main line known as the Southern Transcon, which links Los Angeles with Chicago, Bloomberg reported.
BNSF spokesman Joe Faust said each train carried two crew members and one man jumped out before the collision, according to ABC News .
Mr Faust said the man was being treated at a hospital and the extent of his injuries was not known. Rescue efforts were under way for the other three crew members.
"I don't know how anyone survived," said Billy Brown, a farmer in the area who saw a fireball after the collision. "It's terrible. "
After blazing all day, floodlights were brought to the scene at night as crews prepared to battle the fire that enveloped the wrecked locomotives and lead rail cars.
The two trains were on the same track Tuesday when they collided near the town of Panhandle, about 25 miles northeast of Amarillo (pop 196,000).
Flames are blocking efforts to find three missing crew members. Texas state police Sgt Dan Buesing (of the Texas Department of Public Safety) said rail cars up to 400 yards from the collision site are derailed, strewing rail cars and container stacks.
Sgt Buesing said the flames from the burning diesel fuel of the two smashed locomotives are beginning to subside but that crews won't be able to search the wreckage for three missing crew members until the flames are extinguished.
Air quality samples near the fire have tested safe. Several box cars have derailed and are engulfed in flames following a freight train collision in the Texas Panhandle.
The two trains were carrying intermodal cargo on the main line known as the Southern Transcon, which links Los Angeles with Chicago, Bloomberg reported.
BNSF spokesman Joe Faust said each train carried two crew members and one man jumped out before the collision, according to ABC News .
Mr Faust said the man was being treated at a hospital and the extent of his injuries was not known. Rescue efforts were under way for the other three crew members.
"I don't know how anyone survived," said Billy Brown, a farmer in the area who saw a fireball after the collision. "It's terrible. "
After blazing all day, floodlights were brought to the scene at night as crews prepared to battle the fire that enveloped the wrecked locomotives and lead rail cars.
The two trains were on the same track Tuesday when they collided near the town of Panhandle, about 25 miles northeast of Amarillo (pop 196,000).
Flames are blocking efforts to find three missing crew members. Texas state police Sgt Dan Buesing (of the Texas Department of Public Safety) said rail cars up to 400 yards from the collision site are derailed, strewing rail cars and container stacks.
Sgt Buesing said the flames from the burning diesel fuel of the two smashed locomotives are beginning to subside but that crews won't be able to search the wreckage for three missing crew members until the flames are extinguished.
Air quality samples near the fire have tested safe. Several box cars have derailed and are engulfed in flames following a freight train collision in the Texas Panhandle.
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