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BNSF 1088, What is a "Blue Water" train? Is that its name? This is a tregedy if in fact the crossing signals failed to activate in time. In all the times I have seen trains at crossings I have only seen something like this twice: In the late 70s, an SP local freight was just entering an intersection in Torrance, CA when the lights started flashing. The engineer had been really blasting the horn though, so it was obvious a train was coming! In the mid-90s rode the Santa Fe Southern at Santa Fe, NM. At one crossing the signals were not working, so the train came to a complete stop and then a crew member flagged the crossing.
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The Blue Water is Amtrak's new service running between Chicago and Port Huron, Michigan. It basically is a replacement for the International that ran between Chicago and Toronto that was recently (and unfortunately, in my opinion) discontinued.
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ok. This accident was in North carloina (maybe the Carolinian?) so it wasn't the Blue Water...
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Actually the accident was in Michigan - Charlotte, Michigan to be exact. This can be figured out by when one sees the that the paper is out of Lansing and that the train was headed towards Flint at the time of the accident.
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