Locomotive becomes ambulance to save crash victim

According to a story in the Tuesday August 2nd Pittsburgh Post Gazette a CXS diesel locomotive became an ambulance for the victim of a truck crash along rail lines that run next to the Youghiogheny River.


Creative thinking helped rescue hurt man near Yough River
Tuesday, August 02, 2005
By Lillian Thomas, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

A boat crossed dry land and piggybacked on a train Sunday afternoon, cradling a maintenance worker injured when his rail truck fell into a tree above the Youghiogheny River.

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