Monday, February 13, 2012

Southwest Texas, U.S.A.

"Train derails"

"Officials shut down U.S. Highway 90 due to potential hazards"

By Karen Gleason. Del Rio News - Herald. Tuesday, February 7, 2012.

"At least 20 Union Pacific Railroad cars derailed about 11 miles east of Laughlin Air Force Base early today.


"Kinney County Sheriff L.K. Buddy Burgess and Val Verde County Sheriff Joe Frank Martinez, along with Texas Department of Public Safety officers, ordered U.S. Highway 90 closed between the base and the area of the derailment , about four - and - a - half miles east of the Sycamore Creek Bridge ..."

And, thanks to the prompt actions of all these fine gentlemen, things turned out o.k. -- after all! :)

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