WHITEWATER, Colo. — A Union Pacific train crew escaped without injuries this week after their train hit a rockslide and derailed, with both locomotives winding up on their sides in the Gunnison River.
“Around 11 p.m. MT Tuesday evening, a Union Pacific train encountered a rockslide south of Whitewater, Colorado. The Union Pacific crew onboard was not injured,” railroad spokeswoman Kristen South said in an email. “Two locomotives and five loaded rail cars hauling coal derailed in the incident and some fuel has leaked. Emergency services from Grand Junction and Mesa County, along with Union Pacific crews, are responding to the incident, which is under investigation.”
The derailment occurred south of Grand Junction, Colo., on UP’s North Fork Subdivision.
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