An engineer suffered injuries on Saturday, May 31, at a Union Pacific
yard in San Antonio when the locomotive he was in was struck by a
remote-control yard locomotive, according to an article published in the
June 1 issue of the San Antonio Express-News.
The engineer, whose name was not released, was taken to Methodist
Hospital in stable condition shortly after the 11:36 a.m. accident at
the Union Pacific rail yard in the 1700 block of Quintana Road, near
Kelly-USA industrial park.
Firefighters and paramedics placed the man on a backboard and hoisted
him out of the locomotive in a basket connected to an extension ladder.
San Antonio Fire Department Lt. Vance Meade described the scene as a
"fender bender with a train."
The locomotive collided at a switch, where two lines merge into one.
Mark Davis, a Union Pacific spokesman in Omaha, Neb., told the newspaper
that the manned train, en route to Chicago from Mexico, was stopped when
the other train, controlled by remote, "slightly touched it."
BLE Division 307 Member Patrick Pino told the newspaper, "If you are
operating with a remote-control device on the ground, you have no feel
exactly of what that engine is doing."
Engineer hurt as locomotives collide
