This is why we can have nice things. One person to ruin it for many.
About 7:45 p.m. on Saturday, the Denver Post Cheyenne Frontier Days train, a chartered special led by Union Pacific 4-8-4 Northern No. 844 and made up of 21 UP business cars carrying an estimated 700 passengers and 60 crew members, fatally struck a bystander who appears to have been attempting to photograph or video the train near a grade crossing.
No other injuries were reported.
The train was returning to Denver from Cheyenne, Wyo., where it left the city’s downtown depot at 5:12 p.m., 12 minutes late. It had arrived there at 10:35 a.m. that morning after leaving Denver on-time at 6:30 a.m.
The strike happened near the railroad’s at-grade crossing of state Route 22 near U.S. Route 85, which the UP main line parallels, in Henderson, Colo., an industrial area about 16 miles north of Denver.
The train was traveling near its top speed of 60 mph before the engineer made an emergency brake application shortly after hitting the person. About two hours later, buses began arriving to transport passengers from the scene back to the train’s original parking and boarding locations in Denver. After local law enforcement and UP officials conducted an initial investigation, the consist left the scene under diesel power at about 2 a.m., July 22.
About 7:45 p.m. on Saturday, the Denver Post Cheyenne Frontier Days train, a chartered special led by Union Pacific 4-8-4 Northern No. 844 and made up of 21 UP business cars carrying an estimated 700 passengers and 60 crew members, fatally struck a bystander who appears to have been attempting to photograph or video the train near a grade crossing.
No other injuries were reported.
The train was returning to Denver from Cheyenne, Wyo., where it left the city’s downtown depot at 5:12 p.m., 12 minutes late. It had arrived there at 10:35 a.m. that morning after leaving Denver on-time at 6:30 a.m.
The strike happened near the railroad’s at-grade crossing of state Route 22 near U.S. Route 85, which the UP main line parallels, in Henderson, Colo., an industrial area about 16 miles north of Denver.
The train was traveling near its top speed of 60 mph before the engineer made an emergency brake application shortly after hitting the person. About two hours later, buses began arriving to transport passengers from the scene back to the train’s original parking and boarding locations in Denver. After local law enforcement and UP officials conducted an initial investigation, the consist left the scene under diesel power at about 2 a.m., July 22.