On May 15, 2001, a gray, overcast afternoon, Sergeant Tom Gwinn of the Ohio State Highway Patrol stands in the grass beside a railroad crossing in rural northwestern Ohio, his 12-gauge shotgun at the ...
The locomotive they’d use was the CSX 8888. The crew’s engineer was a 35-year veteran of the railroad who’d begun his career with the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1966 and was described by CSX as a good ...