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TOLEDO, Ohio (CNN) -- Rail workers told CNN on Wednesday how they stopped a runaway freight train after it had traveled nearly 70 miles with no one at the controls. Investigators are scheduled to ...
This is recreated in Unstoppable in a scene in which railroad yard hostler Dewey, played by Ethan Suplee, performs a botched switching operation that results in a runaway freight train being ...
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