The Expositor from Brantford, Ontario, Canada • 5

4 a tJ A THE EXPOSITOR Monday Nov 14 1983 5 i i Railway an attraction for train buffs tourists Broken track blamed for train wreck event some joked have happened if it had been burning the Cape Breton coal it had once hauled fin a living The project is coming together with volunteered spit and polish and government money No 42 is on loan for five years from Robert Tibbets a paint manufacturer from Trenton NS Canadian National and Canadian Pacific railways donated cars and the project will display two more steam locomotives from the coal fields of Minto and Chipman in central New Brunswick The equipment was not in the best of shape Rust about a centimetre thick had to be painstakingly removed with wire brushes from a crane car a caboose had to be rebuilt almost from the ground up and one car cpllapsed in transit Mayor Eric Steeves said the project supported with a $280000 federal grant could help revive the focal economy Officers guests FALKLAND The Mount Pleasant Institute and district officers were guests at a meeting of the Falkland Institute at the home of Margaret Park-hill Participating in the meeting were Mrs Murray Forrest and Shirley Pelton HILLSBOROUGH NE (CP) -A locomotive that cut its teeth on the coal fields of Cape Breton at the turn of the century became the steam-belching whistle-blowing pride of Hillsborough on Sunday A few thousand people lined the route of the new Hillsborough and Salem Railroad in southern New Brunswick as No 42 chugged by with eight cars in tow The railway will open in June as an attraction for train buffs and tourists who will be able to ride the 20-kilometre stretch behind the old iron horse No 42 is the centrepiece of an attraction that will include a rail museum a train station replicating one from the late 1940s and more than 20 coaches boxcars baggage cars and other rolling stock in this village outside Moncton Nostalgia washed over those gathered for the christening and those who got together at dawn to begin stoking the fires for the afternoon debut of No 42 never dreamed of anything this big or this wonderful" said Abel Bastarache of the Railroad Historical Association of Saint John 'Sounds spooky A youngster unaccustomed to the sound of the whistle was in awe sounds he said The 1899 locomotive ran out of steam twice on its initial run an RV i 1 -d AP Photo train dereailed MARSHALL Texas (AP) Investigators are hoping a shattered section of track will reveal how five cars of the Amtrak Eagle derailed deep in the East Texas woods killing four women and injuring scores of other people including a Canadian National Transportation Safety Board workers said Sunday a preliminary investigation of Saturday's accident the second-worst in Amtrak's 12-year history showed that the passenger cars derailed when they hit a separation in the track However board member Donald Engen said the broken section of track will be sent to a Union Pacific laboratory in Omaha Neb for further tests and a final report may not be ready for four months Board spokesman Bob Buckhom said the track was broken in several places causing the separation track breaks and the broken piece of rail comes up and is hit by the oncoming truck which is the technical word for the set of four wheels" Buckhom said can say that the train derailed because of the break but probably more to it A train can pass over a break in the rail without derailing" Engen said the shattered track was in the same section Missouri Pacific Railroad crews had been wen-king on within two hours of the accident' After the repair crews finished two freight trains had passed over the track before the two-engine nine-car Eagle an Amtrak spokesman said Thanks the Lord Paulina Hindmarsh 60 of Ailsa Craig Ont said in a telephone interview from her hospital bed she survived the derailment thanks to her travelling companion She added that the train's slow speed also helped would imagine that if the train was going at the usual rate there would have been a Hindmarsh said she was sitting in the upper deck of a carriage in the middle of the train when there was a fowl noise and began swinging and slopping The carriage Hindmarsh was in didn't roll over completely thanks she said to companion I always travel with the Some men helped Hindmarsh slide along the sloping floor and she was lifted out a window at the end of the carriage She received two cracked ribs and was in stable condition in Marshall Memorial Hospital On-Sunday tom pillows were strewn along the tracks and disposable coffee cups littered the ground near the accident site but the only other sign of the accident was a Missouri Pacific railway crew sitting by a campfire after replacing the 215 metres of mangled track Buses carried 101 of the 145 passengers on board to Dallas and San Antonio following the accident Workers unloaded baggage into a truck Sunday and the train was righted put on repaired track and moved to a Marshall railyard where federal investigators sealed it and 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