freight train

Driver and Child Narrowly Escape Train Crash in Coon Rapids

The driver saw the approaching train and made it out of the vehicle with the child.

September 9, 2019

COON RAPIDS, Minn.–Authorities say an adult and a child escaped from their car just before it was hit by a freight train and caught fire in Coon Rapids. Fire officials say the car got stuck on railroad tracks late Saturday. The driver saw the approaching train and made it out of the vehicle with the child. Firefighters kept the train…

Freight Train Crashes Into Semi Near Fairmount

Freight train and semi collision in Richland County

July 18, 2017

Alison Voorhees,

FAIRMOUNT, N.D. – No one was hurt when a freight train crashed into a semi in Richland County. The sheriff’s office says the semi driven by a farm laborer stalled on the tracks near Fairmount on Monday afternoon. The worker jumped out of the cab as the train approached. The semi was destroyed. The train suffered damage but was able…