Metro Train Derails In DC Rail Yard
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Posted: 11:29 AM Mar 12, 2010
Metro Train Derails In DC Rail Yard
Metro train derails in DC rail yard
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Metro officials say a train with no passengers
aboard derailed in a rail yard.

Metro spokeswoman Lisa Farbstein said Thursday that the train was being moved in the Brentwood rail yard around noon Wednesday when an operator apparently ran a red signal.

Farbstein says the front two wheels of the four-car train derailed, damaging the track and the third rail, but no injuries were reported. She did not have a damage estimate.

Farbstein says two train operators and a track worker on the scene were given drug and alcohol tests and put on routine paid administrative leave.

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