The Gilpin County Sheriff’s Office says the collision occurred in Coal Creek Canyon near Pinecliffe, about 40 miles west of Denver. Sheriff’s spokeswoman Cherokee Blake says the driver and passenger in the truck weren’t hurt and deputies are investigating what happened. Hit the jump to read the rest of the story.
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An Amtrak train is back on its way after a minor collision with a Union Pacific truck in a canyon west of Denver. No one was injured.
Amtrak spokesman Marc Magliari says the train was headed to Emeryville, Calif., when the accident happened early Thursday afternoon. He says no one on the train was injured.
The Gilpin County Sheriff’s Office says the collision occurred in Coal Creek Canyon near Pinecliffe, about 40 miles west of Denver. Sheriff’s spokeswoman Cherokee Blake says the driver and passenger in the truck weren’t hurt and deputies are investigating what happened.
Nearly 260 people had reservations for the train trip, which started Wednesday in Chicago. Magliari says the train was delayed about two hours.
On the morning of June 24 at least six people were killed when a truck hit an Amtrak train bound from Chicago to Emeryville at a rural crossing on U.S. Highway 95 about 70 miles east of Reno, Nevada.
Multiple lawsuits have been filed in that crash and National Transportation Safety Board officials said that their investigation could take more than a year to complete.
