Union Official and Retired NTSB investigator claim the Custer Derailment to be sabotage.
From Reports from KUOW Radio and KOMO News:
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“KUOW reports that an official with the union representing the driver told authorities the derailment was not an accident. The incident happened near where two people had been arrested a month before and accused of attempting a terrorist attack on train tracks to disrupt plans for a natural gas pipeline.” KOMO Report Here…
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“Whoever did this had enough knowledge of railroad equipment to know what he’s doing and enough
knowledge of an air-brake system to know what to do,” said Russell Quimby, a retired National Transportation Safety Board investigator contacted by KUOW as an independent expert.” Full Article here…
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