{"id":4953,"date":"2012-10-09T11:12:42","date_gmt":"2012-10-09T18:12:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/?p=4953"},"modified":"2013-04-03T15:11:35","modified_gmt":"2013-04-03T22:11:35","slug":"union-pacific-train-derails-near-le-mars-ia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/4953\/union-pacific-train-derails-near-le-mars-ia\/","title":{"rendered":"Union Pacific Train Derails Near Le Mars IA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LE MARS, Iowa. &#8212; A Union Pacific train traveling from Texas to Valley Park, Minnesota derailed near Le Mars, Iowa, on Monday, October 9, 2012, sending 24 cars off the tracks.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4957\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4957\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4957\" title=\"le-mars-ia-union-pacific-train-derailment\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/le-mars-ia-union-pacific-train-derailment.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"265\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/le-mars-ia-union-pacific-train-derailment.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/le-mars-ia-union-pacific-train-derailment-300x165.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-4957\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Union Pacific train derailed near Le Mars, IA on October 8, 2012. The derailment involved a locomotive and 23 empty rail cars.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><script type='text\/javascript' src='http:\/\/KMEG.images.worldnow.com\/interface\/js\/WNVideo.js?rnd=354144;hostDomain=www.siouxlandnews.com;playerWidth=492;playerHeight=355;isShowIcon=true;clipId=7816157;flvUri=;partnerclipid=;adTag=News;advertisingZone=;enableAds=true;landingPage=;islandingPageoverride=false;playerType=STANDARD_EMBEDDEDscript;controlsType=overlay'><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The accident occurred at about 9:00 a.m. when the empty cars, which usually carry sand, went off the tracks just east of U.S. Highway 60 near Seney, Iowa.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4958\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4958\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4958\" title=\"le-mars-ia-union-pacific-train-derailment-map\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/le-mars-ia-union-pacific-train-derailment-map.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/le-mars-ia-union-pacific-train-derailment-map.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/le-mars-ia-union-pacific-train-derailment-map-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-4958\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Map showing location of Union Pacific train derailment about 3 miles northeast of Le Mars, IA along Iowa Highway 60 on October 8, 2012.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>According to reporters, some cars came to rest on their sides and others were shoved sideways across the tracks, while one rail car was pushed several feet in the air.<\/p>\n<p>According to Union Pacific spokesman Mark Davis, the railroad company dispatched crews with heavy equipment to clear the tracks. No injuries were reported at the time of the incident.<\/p>\n<p>The accident remains under investigation at this time.<\/p>\n<p>Source: Sioux City Journal<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Posted by Gordon &#038;amp Elias, a FELA lawyer and <a title=\"Iowa railroad injury lawyer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/CM\/FELA\/Iowa-FELA-Overview.shtml\" target=\"_blank\"> Iowa railroad injury lawyer<\/a> who publishes train accidents and FELA legal news from across the United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LE MARS, Iowa. &#8212; A Union Pacific train traveling from Texas to Valley Park, Minnesota derailed near Le Mars, Iowa, on Monday, October 9, 2012, sending 24 cars off the tracks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,27,50,9],"tags":[31,256],"class_list":["post-4953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fela-law","category-iowa-railroad-news","category-train-derailments","category-union-pacific","tag-iowa-fela-lawyer","tag-iowa-railroad-injury-lawyer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4953"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5582,"href":"https:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4953\/revisions\/5582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}