CNNW CNN Newsroom With Fredricka Whitfield October 24, 2015
It had been washed away or toppled over in train tracks that were submerged. What is your best understanding of what happened, jeff. Well, as our crews were headed south on the track, our conductor saw the water start to accumulate over the track in that area. He immediately put the train into an emergency stop. Once the train did come to a full stop, this he were in the water and they noticed it was starting to rise. Apparently, this was a flash flood area. There was a creek that was overflowing. Fortunately, the conductor and the engineer were able to get out of the locomotives and swim thro...