Legal Opinion
National Railroad Passenger v. Consolidated Rail Corp.
District Court, District of Columbia
Decided August 3, 1987No. Civ. A. 87-0277-OGPublishedCited by 36 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM
GASCH, District Judge.
I. INTRODUCTION
On January 4,1987, a northbound freight train controlled by an engineer and a brakeman and owned by the Consolidated Rail Corporation (“Conrail”), failed to heed a series of slow and stop signals at a track juncture near Chase, Maryland. 1 Consequently the Conrail train entered the path of a high speed northbound passenger train operated by the National Railroad Passenger Corporation (“Amtrak”). A collision ensued, resulting in sixteen deaths, several hundred injuries, and millions of dollars in property damage. Since the accident, at least 38…
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