BONNERS FERRY, Idaho — One crew member was taken to the hospital with a wrist injury after a low-speed, head-on collision between two Union Pacific trains on Monday, the Bonners Ferry Herald reports.
The trains collided at an estimated 17 mph shortly before noon, Boundary County public information officer Andrew O’Neel told the newspaper. One train was moving grain and the other was hauling empty log cars; there was no derailment and no spill of cargo or fuel.
Bonners Ferry, on UP’s Spokane Sudivision, the former Spokane International Railroad, is approximately 30 miles from the Canadian border on the Idaho panhandle and about 105 miles from Spokane, Wash.. The line connects with CPKC at Kingsgate, British Columbia.
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