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1 hurt as trains collide in West Virginia

October 23, 1997
Web posted at: 8:43 p.m. EDT (0043 GMT)

BORDERLAND, West Virginia (CNN) -- Two Norfolk Southern freight trains collided Thursday afternoon, toppling one of the locomotives and sending one engineer to the hospital with a broken ankle.

The collision occurred in Borderland, near the Kentucky border about five miles north of Williamson.

Norfolk Southern spokeswoman Susan Terpay said an eastbound train carrying 98 cars loaded with coal collided with a 26-car westbound train.

"There was one locomotive that was briefly on fire, and that was the one that derailed," she said. "The fire was put out quickly."

 
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